made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing" forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor" produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators
produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh
A forced action is something that you do because circumstances make it necessary. He made a forced landing on a highway
A forced action is something that you do because someone else makes you do it. A system of forced labour was used on the cocoa plantations
{s} subjected to violence; not spontaneous, compulsory, not voluntary; artificial, constrained; emergency (i.e. forced landing of a plane)
lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"
If you describe something as forced, you mean it does not happen naturally and easily. a forced smile She called him darling. It sounded so forced. natural