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What is the adjective for force?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb force which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

forcible
  1. Done by force, forced.
  2. (rare or obsolete) Having (physical) force, forceful.
  3. Having a powerful effect; forceful, telling, strong, convincing, effective.
  4. Able to be forced.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “It is a stronger power, a more forcible motive, which exerts itself upon such occasions.”
      “But non-government organizations decried the forcible evictions as inhumane, urging the government to build replacements for their demolished houses.”
      “Half a dozen impudent workwomen put forth a forcible demand for higher wages.”
forced
  1. Obtained forcefully, not naturally.
  2. Opened or accessed using force.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Beneath the forced smiles and limp handshakes, one does sense great reservoirs of boredom.”
      “He defected from his homeland to escape the country's forced military service.”
forceful
  1. With assertive force; powerful.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Unless there is a forceful effort toward the eradication of poverty, the best legislation will not have much of an effect on our children.”
      “The council has failed to take a forceful stand on probably the biggest long-term threat to financial system stability.”
      “Joseph Raz, one of the influential defenders of political perfectionism, has given a forceful argument for the naturalness of the perfectionist view of the state.”
forcefull
  1. Archaic form of forceful.
forceless
  1. Without force.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It would be instantiated by conjectures, assumptions, and perhaps also by forceless utterances.”
      “If expulsion of urine was forceless and there was low back and knee soreness and limpness, 10 grams each of Huang Qi, Shu Di, and Niu Xi were added.”
      “Mad and fantastic execution, Engaging and redeeming of himself With such a careless force and forceless care As if that luck, in very sport of cunning, Bade him win all.”
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