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forced

adjective

1 forced

Produced by or subjected to forcing.

Roget 579: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde [Fr.]; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ... show more

Roget 10: irrelative, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, ... show more

2 forced

Forced or compelled.

3 forced

Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency.

4 forced

Lacking spontaneity; not natural:
— Forced heartiness.

synonyms: constrained, strained.


Moby thesaurus: Herculean, Latinate, affected, arduous, artificial, at odds, automatic, averse, awkward, backbreaking, blind, bombastic, burdensome, calculated, coerced, compelled, compulsive, conditioned, constrained, contrived ... show more.

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