Antonyms for compel
kəmˈpɛlcom·pel

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1. compel

   To compel one to an act is to secure its performance by the use of irresistible physical or moral force. Force implies primarily an actual physical process, absolutely subduing all resistance. Coerce implies the actual or potential use of so much force as may be necessary to secure the surrender of the will; the American secessionists contended that the Federal government had no right to coerce a State. Constrain implies the yielding of judgment and will, and in some cases of inclination or affection, to an overmastering power; as, "the love of Christ constraineth us," 2 Cor. v, 14. Compare DRIVE; INFLUENCE.

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   Synonyms:
   coerce, constrain, drive, force, make, necessitate, oblige

   Preposition:
   The soldiers were compelled to desertion: preferably with the infinitive, compelled to desert.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 4 votes

1. compel

   Antonyms:
   persuade, convince, coax, allure, egg, induce, tempt, seduce, acquit, cozen, liberate, release

   Synonyms:
   force, oblige, drive, constrain, necessitate, make, coerce, bind

Matched Categories

1. • Cause
   • Necessitate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. compel, oblige, obligateverb

   force somebody to do something

   "We compel all students to fill out this form"

   Synonyms:
   oblige, accommodate, bind, obligate, hold

2. compelverb

   necessitate or exact

   "the water shortage compels conservation"

   Synonyms:
   oblige, obligate

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1. compelverb

   Synonyms:
   force, make, constrain, oblige, necessitate, coerce, drive, dragoon, overpower

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How to use compel in a sentence?

1. Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya:

   We should not see it as something that will damage the old taxi industry, but merely to offer better services and compel them to modernise and innovate.

2. Johann Most:

   When state and government have gone, laws must go. People who speak of “laws” in a communistic society, think perhaps only of those general rules of sensible and noble conduct which every good man finds it easy to observe. But in that case they use a wrong word. A law is a rule connected with an apparatus to compel obedience. Behind the law stand the court, the sheriff, the police, the hangman, etc., and who wants them? None, we guess.

3. Stewart Whitson:

   We ’ll ask the judge to compel DOJ to finally reveal documents they’ve been hiding, including their strategic plan to carry out President Biden’s federal election scheme.

4. John Hickenlooper:

   It would be hard for me -- and I am not saying I couldn't do it and I am not saying my patriotic duty may compel me to do it -- but my character, what activates me, motivates me is building teams and surrounding John Hickenlooper with really talented people, taking big bites out of major challenges and then doing them.

5. Sage Eastman:

   What might compel [action], especially in this era of populism, is this broader sense of how much some folks are getting away with, lawfully or not.

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