Force

Noun

 * 1)  Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
 * 2)  A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
 * 3)  A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
 * police force
 * 1)  The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
 * show of force
 * 1)  A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
 * 2) A fictional semi-sentient phenomenon that certain individuals can call upon for assistance as in in the Star Wars stories. See also Force.
 * 3) * May the force be with you.
 * 4)  Legal validity.
 * 5) * The law will come into force in January.
 * 6)  Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
 * 7)  A waterfall or cascade

Verb

 * 1)  To violate (a woman); to rape.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
 * He hath murthered that mylde withoute ony mercy – he forced hir by fylth of hymself, and so aftir slytte hir unto the navyll.
 * 1) *1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.1:
 * a young woman not farre from mee had headlong cast her selfe out of a high window, with intent to kill herselfe, only to avoid the ravishment of a rascally-base souldier that lay in her house, who offered to force her [...].
 * 1)  To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII:
 * And I pray you for my sake to force yourselff there, that men may speke you worshyp.
 * 1)  To compel (someone or something) to: do something.
 * 2) * 2011, Tim Webb & Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, 23 Mar 2011:
 * Housebuilders had warned that the higher costs involved would have forced them to build fewer homes and priced many homebuyers out of the market.
 * 1)  To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
 * Shall wee force the general law of nature, which in all living creatures under heaven is seene to tremble at paine?
 * 1)  To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
 * 2) * 2007, The Guardian, 4 Nov 2007:
 * In a groundbreaking move, the Pentagon is compensating servicemen seriously hurt when an American tank convoy forced them off the road.
 * 1)  To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
 * 2) * 2009, "All things to Althingi", The Economist, 23 Jul 2009:
 * The second problem is the economy, the shocking state of which has forced the decision to apply to the EU.
 * 1)  To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
 * To force a lock.
 * 1)  To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
 * 2) * Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.

Adjectives for Force
tangential; orthogonal; material; automatic; selling; striving; provisional; elastic; diminished; perturbative; brainless; all-compelling; intensified; organizing; victorious; quickening; despoiling; radial; disturbing; insurgent; expeditionary; ethical; considerable; available; dramatic; hoplite; campaigning; resistless; influential; chemical; odious; cumulative; inadequate; powerful; imperious; sufficient; tremendous; superior; crushing; irresistible; apogee; vital; antagonistic; extraordinary; deadly; imperial; sullen; enduring; overwhelming; thwarting; civilizing; working; financial; deterring; conflicting; enormous; deterrent; molecular; static; latent; incomprehensible; invading; opposing; mechanical; insuperable; inorganic; vast; mental; formidable; unvarying; headlong; superior; intense; artistic; demoralized; meditative; self-formed; scattered; unguided; blind; striking; social; constant; besieging; threatening; protective; centrifugal; centripetal; objective; spiritual; ignoble; unwieldy; retarding; natural; frictional; universal; concentrated; entire; spontaneous; operant; devitalizing; permanent; virile; efficient; blasphemous; exuberant; attacking; unrestrained; creative; excessive; electro-motive; well-disciplined; human; reverberating; impelling; synthetic; injurious; swelling; explosive; negative; indivisible; malevolent; instrumental; reactionary; fivefold; overpowering; subterranean; repellent; auxiliary; comparative; insignificant; genuine; meager; potent; fearful; harnessed; terrible; unknown; frontier; outnumbered; selective; cohesive; divided; frightful; calculable; fluid; disturbing; controlling; muscular; superhuman; physical; ameliorative; unaided; brute; tragic; moral; missionary; numerical; defending; living; nervous; passionate; innovating; armed; all-pervading; compulsory; disheartened; elemental; original; lacking; famished; available; hostile; demoniac; peculiar; bodily; uncommon; magnetic; mere; undiminished; pneumatic; lifting; terrifying; supplementary; persuasive; domestic; ascensional; revolting; overmastering; equiva¬lent; driving; deep; remedial; vegetative; sheer; dubious; competent; incisive; generative; unrelenting; sacred; quiet; unmerciful; educational; dynamic; almighty; omnipresent; effectual; wavering; plastic; dumb-gazing; supernatural; unrestricted; destructive; reliable; tractive; emotional; multiple; caressing; illustrative; ethereal; subversive-masterful; philosophical; colonial; unseen; international; furious; economic; wave-whirled; gravitating; sustaining; mercenary; much-needed; propulsive; undeniable; motley; subtle; ceaseless; bull-like; sales; uniformed; unpitying; elevatory; inherent; royal; obstructive; dominant; great; contending; innate; imperious; constructive; psychological; exigent; exhausted; prevalent; warring; primal.

Verbs for Force
absorb—; accelerate—; acquire—; assail by—; combat—; concentrate—s; defy—; diminish—; discipline—s; dislodge by—; divert—; employ—; focus—upon; join—s; gather—s; generate—; hamper—; harmonize—s; harness—; impede—; intensify—; let loose—s; marshal—s; mass—s; muster—s; neutralize—; nullify—; rally—s; react upon with—; recruit—s; resist—; resort to—; stymie—; suspend—; suppress by—; transmit—; triumph over—; utilize—; weaken—; — battle; — engulf; —impels; — motivate; —subdues; —subsides; —s underlie; —s war.

Adverbs for Force
deliberately; instinctively; ruthlessly; offensively; gradually; automatically; dramatically; antagonistically; financially; ignobly; spontaneously; blasphemously; malevolently; potently; demoniacally; incisively; dynamically; psychologically; odiously.

Synonyms for Force

 * noun
 * 1)  organization, body, army, navy, aggregation, armament, troops, battalion, company, regiment, division, number
 * 2) power, strength, energy, compulsion, coercion, duress, violence, vigor, might


 * (verb) coerce, compel, drive, make, impel, necessitate, constrain, oblige, urge, incite, instigate, actuate, move, push, rush.

Antonyms for Force

 * (noun) weakness, uselessness, powerlessness, feebleness, debility, frailty, disability, inability, impotence, incapacity, incapability, incompetence, helplessness.


 * (verb) restrain, obstruct, block, impede, hinder, hold, prevent, stay, check, repress, keep back, suppress, hamper, delay, retard, thwart.

Derived terms

 * antiforce
 * brute force
 * centripetal force
 * centrifugal force
 * Coulomb force
 * Coriolis force


 * come into force
 * force field
 * force to be reckoned with
 * fundamental force
 * spent force
 * workforce

Thesaurus
Niagara, abuse, actuate, acuteness, administer, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, affective meaning, aggression, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, amount, amperage, amplitude, animality, animate, apply, arm, armed forces, armipotence, army, ascendancy, assault, atrocity, authoritativeness, authority, backlash, backset, backwash, barbarity, bear, bear upon, bearing, beef, bestow, betray, big battalions, bind, binding, bite, bitingness, black power, bloodlust, boost, break, brutality, brute force, buck, bulk, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt, butt against, carat, cascade, cataract, cause, cause to, centigram, charge, charisma, charm, chute, clout, coerce, coercion, cogence, cogency, coloring, command, compel, compulsion, concuss, connotation, consequence, constrain, constraint, control, crack, cram, cram in, credit, crew, crowd, crowd in, cultivate, culture, current, cut, cuttingness, debauch, decagram, deceive, decigram, decisiveness, defile, deflorate, deflower, delve, demand, demonic energy, denotation, despoil, destructiveness, dig, dint, dominance, domination, dose, dose with, drag, dragoon, dram, dram avoirdupois, dress, drift, drive, drive in, duress, dynamism, dyne, effect, effective, effectiveness, effectuality, efficacy, effort, elbow, eminence, employees, enchantment, endurance, energize, energy, enforce, enforce upon, enjoin, enterprise, enterprisingness, ergal, essence, esteem, exact, extension, extent, extort, extract, extremity, fall, fallow, falls, favor, ferociousness, fertilize, fierceness, flower power, force in, force majeure, force upon, forcefulness, fortitude, foster, full blast, full force, furiousness, galvanize, gang, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, gist, give, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, goad, good feeling, grain, gram, grammatical meaning, gumption, guts, gutsiness, hardiness, harrow, harshness, have, headway, heartiness, help, hired help, hoe, hold, hundredweight, hurtle, hustle, idea, impact, impel, impetuosity, impetus, implication, import, importance, impose, impress, impression, impressiveness, imprint, in effect, in force, in operation, incidental power, incisiveness, inclemency, influence, influentiality, inhumanity, initiative, insinuation, intension, intensity, intestinal fortitude, intimidate, jab, jam, jam in, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, justness, kilo, kilogram, kinetic energy, knock in, lay on, lead astray, leadership, leverage, lexical meaning, linn, list, literal meaning, lustihood, lustiness, magnetism, magnitude, main force, main strength, make, malignity, mana, mark, mass, mastery, matter, meaning, measure, measurement, megaton, men, mercilessness, mete out to, might, might and main, mightiness, military, milligram, mindlessness, mislead, mole, moment, momentum, mordancy, motivate, move, move to action, moxie, mulch, murderousness, muscle, muscle power, naked force, nappe, nervosity, nervousness, nudge, numbers, oblige, obstinacy, occasion, operative, order, ounce, ounce avoirdupois, ounce troy, outrage, overtone, pack in, pains, pennyweight, persistence, personality, personnel, persuasion, pertinence, physical force, pile drive, pith, pitilessness, pizzazz, plow, plunge in, poignancy, point, poke, poke in, poop, potence, potency, potential energy, potentiality, pound, pound avoirdupois, pound in, pound troy, poundal, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, practical consequence, predominance, preponderance, prepotency, prescribe for, press, press in, pressure, prestige, print, prise, prize, prod, productiveness, productivity, promote, propel, prune, pry, puissance, pull, punch, purchase, purport, push, push in, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, put on, put upon, quantity, quantum, rake, ram, ram down, ram in, range of meaning, rape, rattle, ravage, ravish, reaction, real meaning, recoil, reference, referent, reflex, reign, relation, relevance, repercussion, repute, require, response, restrain, retinue, rigor, robustness, roughness, ruggedness, ruin, rule, rule of might, run, run against, run in, sandbag, sault, savagery, say, scope, scruple, seduce, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, servantry, set in motion, severity, shake, sharpness, shotgun, shoulder, shove, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, sinew, sinewiness, slug, soil, soldiers, solidity, soundness, spade, span of meaning, spark, speed, spirit, spoil, spout, spunk, squeeze in, staff, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, steam, steamroller, sticking power, stimulate, stone, stoutness, strain, strength, strength of will, strenuousness, stress, strong arm, strong language, structural meaning, stuff in, sturdiness, suasion, substance, substantiality, subtle influence, suggestion, sully, sum, sum and substance, superiority, superpower, supremacy, sway, symbolic meaning, tamp, tamp in, tenor, tension, terrorism, the help, thin, thin out, thrust, thrust in, tie, till, till the soil, ton, totality of associations, toughness, transferred meaning, trenchancy, troops, trouble, tyranny, ultima ratio, unadorned meaning, undertone, units of weight, up-and-comingness, upper hand, use force upon, valid, validity, value, vandalism, vehemence, velocity, venom, venturesomeness, venturousness, viciousness, vigor, vigorousness, vim, violate, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, visit, vitality, waterfall, watershoot, wattage, wedge in, weed, weed out, weight, whip hand, whole, work, wreak, wreck, wrench, wrest, wring

Etymology 1
From force:, from  fortia:, from neuter plural of  fortis:

Etymology 2
From fors:. Cognate with Swedish fors:

Noun

 * Arabic: قوة
 * Armenian:, զորություն
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 武力
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ज़ोर
 * Ido: violento, koakto
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 力
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: spēks, vara
 * Lithuanian: jėga, galia
 * Malayalam: ബലം (balam), ശക്തി (Sakthi)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: сила, мощь, дурь
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: kuvvet
 * Ukrainian: міць
 * Urdu: زور


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido: forco, vigoro
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (chikara)
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: spēks
 * Lithuanian: galia, jėga
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: نیرو
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: ուժեր, զինված ուժեր
 * Danish: styrke
 * Dutch: ,
 * French: forces
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido: trupi
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 포스


 * Norwegian: styrke
 * Polish: siły
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: загін


 * Danish: magt
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: pouvoir
 * German:


 * Ido: mov-energio
 * Norwegian: styrke
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:
 * French: truc


 * Swahili:


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French: force
 * Hebrew:


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:
 * Russian:


 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: perforto
 * Norwegian: tvang


 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:


 * : forza
 * : gaya (1)
 * : fortia
 * : zor
 * : näm

Verb

 * Arabic: أجبر, اضطر
 * Armenian:, հարկադրել, բռնանալ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 强迫, 強迫, 迫使,, 逼迫, , 脅迫, 胁迫
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: tot,
 * Esperanto: devigi
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: piespiest
 * Lithuanian: versti, priversti
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: zmusić
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , violenta
 * Russian:,  , принуждать , принудить
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: змусити, мусити


 * Armenian: հարկադրել
 * Danish: fremtvinge
 * Dutch:, forceren
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: påtvinge
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:


 * Swahili:


 * : forzar
 * : forsar
 * : fortiare
 * : forţa
 * : nämön
 * : nämön

Derived terms

 * enforce
 * forceful
 * forcible

Etymology
fors:

Noun

 * 1) force; might; power; strength

Etymology
From neuter plural fortia: < adjective fortis:.

Noun

 * 1) force.

Synonyms

 * pouvoir
 * puissance
 * violence

Derived terms

 * à force
 * à la force du poignet
 * coup de force
 * camisole de force
 * de gré ou de force
 * de force
 * de vive force
 * en force
 * forcé
 * force majeure
 * force vive
 * forces vives
 * forcément
 * forcer
 * tour de force

Alternative forms

 * forche
 * fors

Etymology
*fortia, Classical fors:

Noun

 * 1) strength; might