force - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

Synonyms

• force
• force out
• force play
• force-out

More generic

• putout

Noun

an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

Synonyms

• force
• violence

More generic

• aggression
• hostility

More specific

• domestic violence
• public violence
• riot
• road rage

Noun

(of a law) having legal validity

Synonyms

• effect
• force

More generic

• validity
• validness

Noun

physical energy or intensity

Synonyms

• force
• forcefulness
• strength

More generic

• intensity
• intensiveness

More specific

• brunt
• energy
• impulse
• momentum
• vigor
• vigour
• zip

Noun

a powerful effect or influence

Synonyms

• force

More generic

• influence

More specific

• duress
• heartbeat
• lifeblood
• pressure
• wheel

Noun

a unit that is part of some military service

Synonyms

• force
• military force
• military group
• military unit

More generic

• social unit
• unit

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• Haganah
• IDF
• Israeli Defense Force
• Republican Guard
• air unit
• armor
• armour
• army unit
• command
• commando
• contingent
• detail
• echelon
• enemy
• guard
• headquarters
• legion
• militia
• mujahadeen
• mujahadein
• mujahadin
• mujahedeen
• mujahedin
• mujahideen
• mujahidin
• naval unit
• phalanx
• reserves
• spearhead
• task force
• trip wire

Related

• man
• military man
• military personnel
• serviceman

Related

• armed service
• military service
• service

Noun

a group of people having the power of effective action

Synonyms

• force

More generic

• social group

Noun

group of people willing to obey orders

Synonyms

• force
• personnel

More generic

• organisation
• organization

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• MP
• armed forces
• armed service
• armed services
• constabulary
• guerilla force
• guerrilla force
• hands
• law
• line personnel
• management personnel
• manpower
• men
• military
• military machine
• military personnel
• military police
• military service
• paramilitary
• paramilitary force
• paramilitary organisation
• paramilitary organization
• paramilitary unit
• patrol
• police
• police force
• private security force
• rank
• rank and file
• security force
• service
• soldiery
• staff
• troops
• war machine
• work force
• workforce

Noun

one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

Synonyms

• force
• power

More generic

• causal agency
• causal agent
• cause

More specific

• Moloch
• influence
• juggernaut
• steamroller

Noun

(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

Synonyms

• force

More generic

• physical phenomenon

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• Coriolis force
• Lorentz force
• aerodynamic force
• affinity
• attraction
• attractive force
• centrifugal force
• centripetal force
• chemical attraction
• cohesion
• drift
• elan vital
• impetus
• impulsion
• life force
• magnetomotive force
• moment
• propulsion
• pull
• push
• reaction
• repulsion
• repulsive force
• stress
• thrust
• torque
• torsion
• vital force
• vitality

Verb

impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

Synonyms

• force
• thrust

More generic

• compel
• obligate
• oblige

More specific

• stick
• sting

Verb

do forcibly; exert force

Synonyms

• force

More generic

• act
• move

Also See

• force back
• force out

More specific

• pull

Verb

force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

Synonyms

• drive
• force
• ram

More generic

• thrust

More specific

• toe
• toenail

Related

• drive

Verb

squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

Synonyms

• force
• squeeze
• wedge

More generic

• displace
• move

More specific

• compact
• compress
• impact
• pack together

Verb

take by force

Synonyms

• force
• storm

More generic

• penetrate
• perforate

Verb

urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

Synonyms

• force
• impel

More generic

• cause
• do
• make

Verb

move with force

Synonyms

• force
• push

More generic

• displace
• move

Also See

• force out

More specific

• beat back
• drive
• flick
• force back
• jam
• jerk
• jostle
• muscle into
• nose
• nudge
• obtrude
• poke at
• press
• prod
• push
• push aside
• push away
• push back
• push out
• push up
• repel
• repulse
• shove
• squeeze
• stuff
• thrust
• thrust out
• tip
• topple
• tumble

Related

• move
• press

Related

• push

Verb

to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

Synonyms

• coerce
• force
• hale
• pressure
• squeeze

More generic

• compel
• obligate
• oblige

More specific

• bludgeon
• bring oneself
• dragoon
• drive
• railroad
• sandbag
• squeeze for
• steamroll
• steamroller
• terrorise
• terrorize
• turn up the heat
• turn up the pressure

Related

• act
• move

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