forced
[fawrst, fohrst]
- enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- strained, unnatural, or affected: a forced smile.
- subjected to force.
- required by circumstances; emergency: a forced landing of an airplane.
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Origin of forced
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Examples from the Web for unforced
Contemporary Examples
That complexity includes more encounters with Max that lead to a lovely, unforced ending.
But Scott made the unforced “error” of endorsing the Medicaid expansion for about 20 minutes last year.
There has always had to be an unforced, unforceable motion of the heart to go with the visible, social stuff.
Francis Spufford on How Atheists Put Religion Through All the Wrong TestsFrancis Spufford
October 13, 2013
Williams never faced a break point and committed just eight unforced errors in her first-round match.
He lacked basic political skills, and his unforced errors and muddled messaging unnecessarily antagonized conservatives.
Historical Examples
His unforced geniality made Trent ashamed, for he had liked the man.
The Woman in BlackEdmund Clerihew Bentley
Poetry and religious feeling will be the unforced flowers of life.
Reconstruction in PhilosophyJohn Dewey
The conversation, while not specially brilliant, was unforced and gayly bantering.
The Deep Lake MysteryCarolyn Wells
Yet the transition is as unforced as any such transition can be.
The author's style is simple, natural, and unforced, rather the expression of the scientific than of the literary type of mind.
Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843)Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prince of Wied
unforced
- not forced or having been forcedunforced errors
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forced
- done because of force; compulsoryforced labour
- false or unnaturala forced smile
- due to an emergency or necessitya forced landing
- physics caused by an external agencya forced vibration; a forced draught
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Word Origin and History for unforced
forced
adj.
"not spontaneous or voluntary," 1570s, past participle adjective from force (v.). The flier's forced landing attested by 1917.
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