Exact Match:
- coercion
- the act of compelling by force of authority
Related Words:
- independently
collapse - on your own; without outside help; "the children worked on the project independently"
- apart from others; "the clothes were hung severally" related words >
- voluntarily
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- out of your own free will; "he voluntarily submitted to the fingerprinting" related words >
- advisedly,
- by choice,
- by design,
- calculatedly,
- consciously,
- contemplatedly,
- deliberately,
- designedly,
- electively,
- freely,
- gratis,
- gratuitously,
- in cold blood,
- independently,
- intentionally,
- knowingly,
- meditatedly,
- on purpose,
- optionally,
- pointedly,
- premeditatedly,
- purposefully,
- purposely,
- purposively,
- spontaneously,
- willfully,
- willingly,
- with full intent,
- with intent,
- with malice aforethought,
- with purpose,
- without coercion,
- wittingly
- freely
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- in a free manner; "the painting featured freely brushed strokes" related words >
- abundantly,
- amply,
- bigheartedly,
- bounteously,
- bountifully,
- by choice,
- candidly,
- cleanly,
- easily,
- electively,
- frankly,
- free,
- freehandedly,
- freeheartedly,
- generously,
- graciously,
- gratuitously,
- greatheartedly,
- handsomely,
- hospitably,
- independently,
- largeheartedly,
- lavishly,
- liberally,
- munificently,
- openhandedly,
- openheartedly,
- openly,
- optionally,
- outright,
- plainly,
- plentifully,
- profusely,
- readily,
- smoothly,
- spontaneously,
- unceremoniously,
- unconstrainedly,
- ungrudgingly,
- unreservedly,
- unrestrainedly,
- unselfishly,
- unsparingly,
- unstintingly,
- voluntarily,
- willfully,
- willingly,
- with abandon,
- with both hands,
- with open hands,
- without coercion,
- without reserve,
- without restraint,
- without stint
- unforced
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- not resulting from undue effort; not forced; "a voice with a pleasingly unforced quality"; "his playing is facile and unstrained" related words >
- a beneplacito,
- a discretion,
- abandoned,
- ad arbitrium,
- ad lib,
- ad libitum,
- al piacere,
- arbitrary,
- at choice,
- at pleasure,
- at will,
- autonomous,
- deliberate,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- elective,
- free,
- free will,
- go-go,
- gratuitous,
- immoderate,
- incontinent,
- independent,
- indulgent,
- intemperate,
- intentional,
- irrepressible,
- lax,
- licentious,
- loose,
- nonmandatory,
- nonrestrictive,
- offered,
- optional,
- out of control,
- out of hand,
- permissive,
- reinless,
- riotous,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- spontaneous,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- unbridled,
- uncalled-for,
- unchecked,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrolled,
- uncurbed,
- ungoverned,
- uninfluenced,
- uninhibited,
- uninvited,
- unmastered,
- unmeasured,
- unmuzzled,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unreined,
- unrepressed,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestrictive,
- unruly,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- unsubdued,
- unsuppressed,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- wanton,
- wild,
- willful,
- willing,
- without coercion,
- witting
- intimidation
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- the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
- the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc. related words >
- admonition,
- argumentum baculinum,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- blustering,
- boastfulness,
- bravado,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- bustle,
- caution,
- cautioning,
- caveat,
- coercion,
- commination,
- cowing,
- demoralization,
- denunciation,
- determent,
- deterrence,
- duress,
- empty threat,
- expostulation,
- fanfaronade,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- foreboding,
- frightening,
- frightening off,
- fuss,
- hectoring,
- high pressure,
- idle threat,
- imminence,
- implied threat,
- menace,
- monition,
- pressure,
- promise of harm,
- psychological warfare,
- rant,
- remonstrance,
- rodomontade,
- side,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- strong-arm tactics,
- swagger,
- swashbucklery,
- sword of Damocles,
- talking out of,
- the big stick,
- the bludgeon,
- the club,
- the jackboot,
- the mailed fist,
- the strong arm,
- the sword,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- violence,
- war of nerves,
- warning
- duress
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- compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress" related words >
- amperage,
- argumentum baculinum,
- armipotence,
- authority,
- beef,
- black power,
- brute force,
- captivity,
- charge,
- charisma,
- close arrest,
- clout,
- coercion,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- compulsion,
- compulsoriness,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- detention,
- dint,
- drive,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- energy,
- flower power,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- full blast,
- full force,
- high pressure,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- influence,
- internment,
- intimidation,
- jailing,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- mandatedness,
- mandatoriness,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- necessariness,
- necessitation,
- necessitude,
- necessity,
- obligation,
- obligatoriness,
- obligement,
- pizzazz,
- poop,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- prepotency,
- pressure,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- restraint,
- sinew,
- steam,
- strength,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm tactics,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- term of imprisonment,
- the big stick,
- the bludgeon,
- the club,
- the jackboot,
- the mailed fist,
- the strong arm,
- the sword,
- threat,
- throughout,
- validity,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- violence,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- wattage,
- weight
- ad lib
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- without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib" related words >
- a beneplacito,
- a discretion,
- ad arbitrium,
- ad libitum,
- ad-libbing,
- al piacere,
- arrangement,
- at choice,
- at pleasure,
- at short notice,
- at sight,
- at will,
- be caught napping,
- be surprised,
- be taken unawares,
- be unprepared,
- by ear,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- cook up,
- dash off,
- disqualification,
- do offhand,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporaneously,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporarily,
- extemporariness,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- extemporize,
- extemporized,
- fake,
- go off half-cocked,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- have no plan,
- impromptu,
- improvisate,
- improvisation,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improvision,
- improviso,
- incapability,
- incompetence,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged,
- knock off,
- lack of preparation,
- lash up,
- make up,
- makeshift,
- measure,
- nonpreparation,
- nonpreparedness,
- off the cuff,
- off the hip,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- on sight,
- out of hand,
- planlessness,
- play by ear,
- playing by ear,
- precipitate,
- pro tempore,
- rough-and-ready,
- scrap the plan,
- snap,
- stopgap,
- strike off,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary measure,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unforced,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unpreparedness,
- unprimed,
- unqualification,
- unqualifiedness,
- unreadiness,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unstudied,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unsuitedness,
- vamp,
- vulnerability,
- whip up,
- whomp up,
- wing it,
- without coercion
- necessity
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- anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
- the condition of being essential or indispensable related words >
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- act of God,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- bare cupboard,
- bare necessities,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- call,
- call for,
- cause,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- coaction,
- coercion,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- condition,
- constraint,
- dead certainty,
- decree,
- definiteness,
- demand,
- demand for,
- deprivation,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- destitution,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- duress,
- empty purse,
- enforcement,
- essential,
- essentials,
- exigency,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- force majeure,
- forcing,
- foredestiny,
- foregone conclusion,
- foreknowledge,
- foreordination,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impoverishment,
- indefeasibility,
- indigence,
- indispensable,
- indispensableness,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitability,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- inflexibility,
- irresistibility,
- irrevocability,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- moneylessness,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessities,
- necessitousness,
- need,
- need for,
- needfulness,
- neediness,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- obligation,
- obligement,
- occasion,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- preordination,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- prescience,
- privation,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- relentlessness,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisiteness,
- requisition,
- restraint,
- sine qua non,
- sureness,
- surety,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- unpreventability,
- unyieldingness,
- vis major,
- want
- violence
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- 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"
- a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. related words >
- Alecto,
- Megaera,
- Nemesis,
- Tisiphone,
- abuse,
- acerbity,
- acidity,
- acridity,
- acrimony,
- agitability,
- animality,
- argumentum baculinum,
- assault,
- astringency,
- atrociousness,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- barbarity,
- barbarousness,
- beastliness,
- bestiality,
- bite,
- bitterness,
- bloodiness,
- bloodlust,
- bloodthirst,
- bloodthirstiness,
- bloody-mindedness,
- brutality,
- brutalness,
- brute force,
- brutishness,
- burning rage,
- cannibalism,
- causticity,
- clash,
- coercion,
- combustibility,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- cruelness,
- cruelty,
- damage,
- destructiveness,
- distort,
- do violence to,
- duress,
- edge,
- edginess,
- emotional instability,
- emotionalism,
- energy,
- eruptiveness,
- excitability,
- excitableness,
- explosiveness,
- ferociousness,
- ferocity,
- fiendishness,
- fierceness,
- foul,
- frenzy,
- furious rage,
- furor,
- fury,
- grip,
- harm,
- harshness,
- high pressure,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- ill-use,
- inflammability,
- inhumaneness,
- inhumanity,
- injure,
- injury,
- intensity,
- intimidation,
- irascibility,
- irritability,
- keenness,
- latent violence,
- maltreatment,
- might,
- mightiness,
- mistreatment,
- molestation,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- murderousness,
- nervousness,
- outrage,
- passion,
- perturbability,
- physical force,
- poignancy,
- point,
- power,
- pressure,
- prickliness,
- rage,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- ruthlessness,
- sadism,
- sadistic cruelty,
- sanguineousness,
- savagery,
- sensitivity,
- severity,
- sharpness,
- skittishness,
- startlishness,
- sting,
- strength,
- stridency,
- stringency,
- strong-arm tactics,
- tartness,
- tearing passion,
- teeth,
- tempestuousness,
- the Erinyes,
- the Eumenides,
- the Furies,
- the big stick,
- the bludgeon,
- the club,
- the jackboot,
- the mailed fist,
- the strong arm,
- the sword,
- touchiness,
- towering rage,
- trenchancy,
- truculence,
- twist,
- uproar,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- viciousness,
- vigor,
- violation,
- virulence,
- wanton cruelty,
- warp,
- wildness
- amperage,
- argumentum baculinum,
- arm,
- armipotence,
- authority,
- battler,
- beef,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- black power,
- blackjack,
- blade,
- bludgeon,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- brute force,
- bulldoze,
- bulldozer,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- charge,
- charisma,
- clout,
- coerce,
- coercion,
- coercive,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- compulsion,
- contender,
- contestant,
- dint,
- disputant,
- dragoon,
- drive,
- duelist,
- duress,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- energy,
- enforcer,
- exert strength,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- flower power,
- foilsman,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- forcible,
- full blast,
- full force,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- high pressure,
- hijack,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- influence,
- intimidate,
- intimidation,
- jouster,
- knight,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- militant,
- moxie,
- muscle,
- muscle power,
- pizzazz,
- plug-ugly,
- poop,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- prepotency,
- pressure,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- quarreler,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- shanghai,
- sinew,
- sledgehammer,
- squabbler,
- steam,
- steamroller,
- strength,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-arm tactics,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- the big stick,
- the bludgeon,
- the club,
- the jackboot,
- the mailed fist,
- the strong arm,
- the sword,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- use force,
- use violence,
- validity,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- violence,
- violent,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- wattage,
- weight,
- wrangler
- compulsion
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- using force to cause something; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn`t have to use coercion"
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will related words >
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- alienation,
- amperage,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- armipotence,
- authority,
- beef,
- black power,
- brute force,
- catatonic stupor,
- charge,
- charisma,
- clout,
- coercion,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- complex,
- compulsoriness,
- constraint,
- dejection,
- depression,
- detachment,
- dint,
- drive,
- driving,
- driving force,
- duress,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- energy,
- euphoria,
- exigency,
- fascination,
- fixation,
- fixed idea,
- flower power,
- folie du doute,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- full blast,
- full force,
- hang-up,
- hypercathexis,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- idee fixe,
- impellent,
- impelling,
- impelling force,
- impetus,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- incentive,
- incitement,
- indifference,
- influence,
- insensibility,
- irresistible force,
- irresistible impulse,
- lethargy,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- mandatedness,
- mandatoriness,
- mania,
- melancholia,
- mental distress,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- moment,
- momentum,
- monomania,
- morbid drive,
- motive power,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- necessariness,
- necessitation,
- necessitude,
- necessity,
- need,
- obligation,
- obligatoriness,
- obligement,
- obsession,
- obsessive compulsion,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- pinch,
- pizzazz,
- poop,
- possession,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- prepotency,
- press,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- propulsion,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- ruling passion,
- sinew,
- steam,
- strength,
- stress,
- strong arm,
- stupor,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- thrust,
- tic,
- twitching,
- unresponsiveness,
- urge,
- urgency,
- validity,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- violence,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- wattage,
- weight,
- withdrawal
- constraint
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- the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
- the state of being physically constrained; "dogs should be kept under restraint" related words >
- abnegation,
- abstinence,
- aloofness,
- aplomb,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- backwardness,
- bashfulness,
- blankness,
- caging,
- calm,
- calmness,
- check,
- chilliness,
- circumscription,
- coaction,
- coercion,
- coldness,
- composure,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- confinement,
- conservatism,
- continence,
- control,
- cool,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- coolness,
- cramp,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- deceleration,
- denial,
- detachment,
- discipline,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dispassion,
- distance,
- drive,
- driving,
- duress,
- enforcement,
- evenness,
- exigency,
- expressionlessness,
- forbearance,
- forcing,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- frugality,
- gentleness,
- goad,
- golden mean,
- guardedness,
- happy medium,
- hindrance,
- iciness,
- impartiality,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impelling,
- impersonality,
- impoundment,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- inaccessibility,
- independence,
- inevitability,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- introversion,
- irresistibility,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- legal restraint,
- lenity,
- lockup,
- meden agan,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- modesty,
- monopoly,
- motive,
- necessity,
- neutrality,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- obligation,
- obligement,
- pacifism,
- penning,
- pinch,
- possession,
- press,
- pressure,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- prudence,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- rationing,
- rein,
- remoteness,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- retiring disposition,
- retrenchment,
- self-abnegation,
- self-command,
- self-conquest,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-government,
- self-mastery,
- self-possession,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- slowing down,
- soberness,
- sobriety,
- sophrosyne,
- spring,
- spur,
- stability,
- standoffishness,
- steadiness,
- stress,
- subduedness,
- suppression,
- tariff wall,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- thought control,
- tranquillity,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexcessiveness,
- unexpansiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- urge,
- urgency,
- via media,
- violence,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness
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