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Synonyms for force
fɔrs, foʊrsforce

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English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. force

    An army is an organized body of men armed for war, ordinarily considerable in numbers, always independent in organization so far as not to be a constituent part of any other command. Organization, unity, and independence, rather than numbers are the essentials of an army. We speak of the invading army of Cortes or Pizarro, tho either body was contemptible in numbers from a modern military standpoint. We may have a little army, a large army, or a vast army. Host is used for any vast and orderly assemblage; as, the stars are called the heavenly host. Multitude expresses number without order or organization; a multitude of armed men is not an army, but a mob. Legion (from the Latin) and phalanx (from the Greek) are applied by a kind of poetic license to modern forces; the plural legions is preferred to the singular. Military is a general word for land-forces; the military may include all the armed soldiery of a nation, or the term may be applied to any small detached company, as at a fort, in distinction from civilians. Any organized body of men by whom the law or will of a people is executed is a force; the word is a usual term for the police of any locality.

    Synonyms:
    armament, army, array, forces, host, legions, military, multitude, phalanx, soldiers, soldiery, troops

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. forcenoun

    a powerful effect or influence

    "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

    Synonyms:
    force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, force out, force-out, forcefulness, military force, personnel

  2. forcenoun

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

    "force equals mass times acceleration"

    Synonyms:
    force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, force out, force-out, forcefulness, military force, personnel

  3. force, forcefulness, strengthnoun

    physical energy or intensity

    "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

    Synonyms:
    power, long suit, military posture, military strength, military group, durability, military force, intensity level, force play, strength, military capability, violence, effectiveness, effect, specialty, force out, speciality, posture, potency, persuasiveness, metier, intensity, strong point, force-out, strong suit, personnel, forcefulness, military unit, forte, enduringness, lastingness

  4. force, personnelnoun

    group of people willing to obey orders

    "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"

    Synonyms:
    force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, personnel department, staff office, force out, force-out, forcefulness, personnel office, military force, personnel

  5. military unit, military force, military group, forcenoun

    a unit that is part of some military service

    "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"

    Synonyms:
    force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, force out, force-out, forcefulness, military force, personnel

  6. violence, forcenoun

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

    "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"

    Synonyms:
    power, military unit, furiousness, military group, vehemence, military force, force play, strength, ferocity, violence, effect, wildness, force out, fierceness, fury, force-out, personnel, forcefulness

  7. power, forcenoun

    one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

    "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"

    Synonyms:
    world power, ability, exponent, index, major power, great power, might, military group, tycoon, military force, force play, strength, magnate, top executive, violence, effect, business leader, powerfulness, mightiness, power, baron, big businessman, superpower, force out, mogul, office, force-out, personnel, forcefulness, military unit, king

  8. forcenoun

    a group of people having the power of effective action

    "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"

    Synonyms:
    force play, military group, effect, military unit, violence, strength, power, force out, force-out, forcefulness, military force, personnel

  9. effect, forcenoun

    (of a law) having legal validity

    "the law is still in effect"

    Synonyms:
    power, consequence, military unit, event, military group, core, force out, military force, force play, strength, gist, violence, effect, result, burden, essence, outcome, force-out, upshot, personnel, forcefulness, issue, impression

  10. force out, force-out, force play, forceverb

    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

    "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"

    Synonyms:
    military group, effect, military unit, force play, strength, force-out, force out, power, forcefulness, military force, violence, personnel

  11. coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, forceverb

    to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

    "He squeezed her for information"

    Synonyms:
    draw, storm, blackjack, pressure, crush, thrust, rack, ram, hale, press, blackmail, twitch, gouge, tweet, embrace, impel, shove, twinge, compress, hug, drive, constrict, cart, contract, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, drag, wring, mash, coerce, push, bosom, wedge, squelch, pull, haul

  12. impel, forceverb

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

    Synonyms:
    pressure, hale, coerce, squeeze, storm, push, impel, wedge, thrust, ram, propel, pull, draw, drive

  13. push, forceverb

    move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

    Synonyms:
    fight, tug, ram, promote, agitate, hale, crusade, drive, advertise, thrust, draw, campaign, pull, coerce, storm, squeeze, pressure, wedge, labor, labour, crowd, impel, press, bear on, advertize, push

  14. force, thrustverb

    impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

    "She forced her diet fads on him"

    Synonyms:
    stuff, throw, pressure, hale, drive, coerce, thrust, draw, push up, shove, storm, squeeze, pull, hurtle, wedge, ram, hurl, impel, lunge, pierce, push

  15. wedge, squeeze, forceverb

    squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

    "I squeezed myself into the corner"

    Synonyms:
    extort, draw, storm, stick, pressure, crush, thrust, rack, ram, hale, press, twitch, gouge, tweet, embrace, impel, shove, twinge, compress, hug, drive, lodge, contract, deposit, stuff, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, wring, mash, coerce, push, bosom, wedge, squelch, pull, constrict

  16. force, drive, ramverb

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

    "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"

    Synonyms:
    tug, pressure, force back, thrust, get, ram, crash, hale, jam, take, impel, repel, cram, aim, storm, pull, drive, coerce, ride, pound, chock up, wad, ram down, labour, motor, squeeze, push, repulse, draw, labor, wedge, jampack, push back, beat back

  17. pull, draw, forceverb

    cause to move by pulling

    "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

    Synonyms:
    absorb, take in, pressure, suck up, pull in, attract, get, overstretch, thread, quarter, ram, string, perpetrate, pull back, commit, depict, guide, describe, drag, disembowel, thrust, suck, delineate, deplumate, rive, make, hale, soak up, tie, cast, storm, pull, get out, take out, drive, coerce, draw and quarter, root for, push, sop up, puff, reap, draw out, pass, squeeze, pluck, imbibe, impel, deplume, pull up, line, withdraw, pull out, draw, draw off, wedge, run, tear, rend, trace, extract, draw in, rip, displume, take up, eviscerate

  18. forceverb

    do forcibly; exert force

    "Don't force it!"

    Synonyms:
    thrust, pressure, hale, coerce, squeeze, storm, push, impel, wedge, ram, pull, draw, drive

  19. storm, forceverb

    take by force

    "Storm the fort"

    Synonyms:
    ramp, pressure, hale, drive, coerce, thrust, draw, storm, squeeze, pull, rage, surprise, wedge, ram, impel, push

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pressure

    strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement

    "he was thrown backward by the force of the explosion"

    Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. forcenoun

    Synonyms:
    strength (regarded as active), power, might, energy, vigor

  2. forcenoun

    Synonyms:
    efficacy, efficiency, potency, validity, cogency, virtue, agency

  3. forcenoun

    Synonyms:
    violence, compulsion, coercion, constraint, enforcement

  4. forcenoun

    Synonyms:
    army, troop, legion, host, squadron, phalanx, regiment

  5. forceverb

    Synonyms:
    compel, coerce, constrain, necessitate

  6. forceverb

    Synonyms:
    impel, drive, urge, press, clap

  7. forceverb

    Synonyms:
    ravish, violate, debauch, constuprate, deflour, commit a rape on

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  1. Omare Lamrani:

    It’s a very old plane, but definitely one of the most capable, air Force has been moving toward multi-mission aircraft, but when Air Force comes to this particular mission this plane is unrivaled in Air Force ability. There is no weapon in our arsenal that offers more effective close-air support to American ground troops serving in harms way than the A-10 aircraft, - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. First designated for retirement in 2011, a planning document the Air Force published in mid-February reveals that 2022 is the flying branch's newest deadline for the last A-10 flight. The extension was announced by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter during a preview of the Pentagon’s budget at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. according to the Arizona Daily Star. The venerable plane, first built for destroying Soviet tanks, has been on the chopping block since the sequester of 2011 mandated steep cuts in the Pentagon budget. Although the planes haven't been built in more than 30 years, the Department of Defense believes it can save maintenance costs by phasing them out. Air Force brass believes newer, faster aircraft like the F-16, F-15E, and, eventually, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 can do a better job of the Warthog’s mission of providing close air support to soldiers on the ground. But the Pentagon disagrees and has pushed back, leading to Air Force brass to extend the end date for a phase out. The plane has survived year-to-year, with powerful lawmakers such as Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., fighting to keep it alive.

  2. Jeremy Corbyn:

    Going to war creates a legacy of bitterness and problems, let us be a force for change in the world, a force for humanity in the world, a force for peace in the world, and a force that recognizes we can not go on like this, with grotesque levels of global inequality, grotesque threats to our environment all around the world, without the rich and powerful governments stepping up to the plate to make sure our world becomes safer and better -- and those people don't end up in poverty, in refugee camps, wasting their lives away.

  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.

  4. Thomas Sowell:

    Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

  5. John DeWitt:

    Our bodies love force, force is what helps our muscles get stronger ; force is what helps our bones to stay strong ; force is what helps or heart to stay strong by having to pump the blood against gravity. So, when you take that force away, you all of a sudden lose a really important stimulus that's important for health.


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