Word Meanings - FORCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORCE)
- Agent
- Doer
- performer
- actor
- force
- means
- instrument
- influence
- cause
- promoter
- operator
- Attempt
- Try
- endeavor
- strive
- undertake
- seek
- essay
- attack
- violate
- Calibre
- Gauge
- diameter
- ability
- capacity
- strength
- power
- Coerce
- Restrain
- inhibit
- impel
- compel
- drive
- counteract
- check
- constrain
- confine
- intimidate
- Compel
- Force
- oblige
- necessitate
- make
- coerce
- bind
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FORCE)
Related words: (words related to FORCE)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - GAUGE
To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - INHIBITORY
Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. - CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - ABILITY
The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then - STRENGTHFUL
Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - ESSAYER
One who essays. Addison. - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - OBLIGER
One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton. - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - COUNTERACT
To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - DRIVEL
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym: - ADORABILITY
Adorableness. - AMENABILITY
The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - SUITABILITY
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - EQUABILITY
The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray. - COMMENSURABILITY
The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - DEFLAGRABILITY
The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle. - IMMEABILITY
Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot. - INEVITABILITY
Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford. - OLFACTOR
A smelling organ; a nose.