| 单词 | forceful |
| 释义 | forceful (once / 1871 pages) adj Something forceful is strong and firm. A politician's forceful speech is self-assured and energetic, and it makes the audience sit up and take notice. One meaning of forceful is all about physical strength: "The forceful throw carried the football past the goalposts." Another way to be forceful is to be emphatic or vehement: "The child's forceful refusal to go to bed could not be ignored by the sleepy babysitter." Forceful literally means "full of force," and force comes from the Latin fortis, "strong, firm, or steadfast." WORD FAMILYforceful: forcefully, forcefulness, unforceful+/enforce: enforceable, enforced, enforcement, enforcer, enforces, enforcing, reenforce/enforceable: unenforceable/enforced: enforcedly, unenforced/enforcement: enforcements/enforcer: enforcers/force: enforce, forced, forceful, forceless, forces, forcible, forcing/forced: forcedly, unforced/forcible: forciblest, forcibly/reenforce: reenforced, reenforcement, reenforces, reenforcing/reenforcement: reenforcements/unforced: unforcedly USAGE EXAMPLESGannon says while using “a forceful command” may be necessary, “threatening language is never appropriate or acceptable.” Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) She is free yet guarded, proud yet insecure, forceful yet tentative, cynical yet naive. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) But the forceful intervention, including a discussion with Egypt’s president, failed to prevent passage of the resolution. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical) a forceful speaker a forceful personality forceful measures a forceful plan for peace Syn|Ant bruising brutally forceful and compelling drasticforceful and extreme and rigorous emphatic, exclamatorysudden and strong firm, strongstrong and sure forcible, physical, strong-armimpelled by physical force especially against resistance impellentforcing forward or onward; impelling impetuousmarked by violent force sharpquick and forceful forceless, unforceful lacking force; feeble wimpish, wimpyweak and ineffectual 2adj forceful and definite in expression or action Syn emphatic assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive aggressively self-assured |
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