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[ UK /fˈɔːsfə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔɹsfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. forceful and definite in expression or action
    the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty
  2. characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical)
    forceful measures
    a forceful personality
    a forceful speaker
    a forceful plan for peace

How To Use forceful In A Sentence

  • The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
  • The volume breathed out in the first second of forceful blowing into a spirometer, measured in litres.
  • We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working. Pushing to the Front
  • Most forceful among these voices were those of African women, who declared that the Pan-Africanism of the formal leadership was androcentric and patriarchal.
  • These two are forceful characters. The Times Literary Supplement
  • There is a passion, there is a vigor, there is a forcefulness, which is more thrilling," he says of an all-male Glee Club. Yale Glee Club Hits a High Note
  • She has a razor-sharp mind and a forceful, determined personality. Times, Sunday Times
  • The most forceful argument against compensation is that innocent taxpayers will end up footing the bill. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is radical political speech always to be conceived as forceful and polemical?
  • Yesterday we got not a nudge but a forceful shove from a man who is supremely confident in his bully pulpit. Times, Sunday Times
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