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forced

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//fɔːst//
  • United States//fɔɹst//
  • //fo(ː)ɹst//
  • //foəst//

Obtained forcefully, not naturally.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of forcesimple past and past participle of force

adjective

  1. 1

    Obtained forcefully, not naturally.

    The forced labor went on for 14 years.

  2. 2

    Opened or accessed using force.

  3. 3

    Produced by strain; not spontaneous; insincere.

    forced laughter

Forms

comparative
more forced
superlative
most forced
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).