FORCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forced mean? 

• FORCED (adjective)
  The adjective FORCED has 4 senses:

1. produced by or subjected to forcing

2. forced or compelled

3. made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency

4. lacking spontaneity; not natural

  Familiarity information: FORCED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produced by or subjected to forcing

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

forced convection in plasma generators

Participle:

force (move with force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Forced or compelled

Context example:

promised to abolish forced labor

Similar:

involuntary; nonvoluntary; unvoluntary (not subject to the control of the will)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency

Context example:

a forced landing

Similar:

unscheduled (not scheduled or not on a regular schedule)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Lacking spontaneity; not natural

Synonyms:

constrained; forced; strained

Context example:

a strained smile

Similar:

affected; unnatural (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)

 Context examples 

As an Aries, you are always up for a challenge, and when you don’t have one forced upon you from the outside, you challenge yourself.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was in vain to discover my resentments, which were always turned into ridicule; and I was forced to rest with patience, while my noble and beloved country was so injuriously treated.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He has not been forced upon any exertion.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

So the Tin Woodman was forced to return sorrowfully to his friends and tell them of the terrible Beast he had seen.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Ere long, I had reason to congratulate myself on the course of wholesome discipline to which I had thus forced my feelings to submit.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His shoulders stuck, and he forced himself back so as to try it with one arm down by his side.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Gretel began to weep bitterly, but it was all in vain, for she was forced to do what the wicked witch commanded.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She could not abstract her mind five minutes: she was forced to listen; his reading was capital, and her pleasure in good reading extreme.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The first tests they used were the tail suspension test and the forced swim tests, which are often used to determine whether or not a compound is an antidepressant.

(New Method for Treating Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Encouraged by these results, the researchers again increased mTOR activity but then forced mice to use the treated eye during visual stimulation by suturing shut the good eye.

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)