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forced

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of forced

1 forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law
  • forced payment of membership dues
Synonyms of forced

compulsory, imperative, incumbent, involuntary, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, peremptory, required
Words Related to forced

all-important, essential, indispensable, needed, requisite

insistent, persistent, pressing, urgent

demanded, enforced

coercive
Near Antonyms of forced

chosen, discretionary

dispensable, unnecessary, unneeded, unwanted

inconsequential, insignificant, nonessential, unimportant
Antonyms of forced

elective, optional, voluntary
2 lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
  • wasn't thrilled with the suggestion and so responded with a forced smile
Synonyms of forced

affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural
Words Related to forced

automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic

double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous

exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)

cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering

conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden

artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
Near Antonyms of forced

authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true

honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending

easy, effortless, smooth

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied
Antonyms of forced

artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced
3 not made or done willingly or by choice
  • participation in the program was forced
Synonyms of forced

coerced, involuntary, unintended, unintentional, unwilling, will-less
Words Related to forced

accidental, unplanned, unpremeditated

automatic, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unprompted

inadvertent, unconscious, unknowing, unwitting
Near Antonyms of forced

advised, conscious, considered, knowing, planned, premeditated, premeditative, prepense, purposeful

volitional

self-imposed, self-inflicted
Antonyms of forced

deliberate, freewill, intentional, uncoerced, unforced, voluntary, willful (or wilful), willing

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