compelled

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəmˈpɛld/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛld
  • Hyphenation: com‧pelled

Adjective

compelled (comparative more compelled, superlative most compelled)

  1. Driven; forced.
    • 2013, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce, Education Research, page 42:
      I do believe state policymakers are very compelled to address those early years.
    • 2021, Lew Hunter, Naked Screenwriting:
      I was very compelled by the experience of watching Hamlet and the opening scene that has the ghost of his father on the parapet saying, “Revenge my death.”
    • 2021, Liliana Chávez Díaz, Latin American Documentary Narratives, page 223:
      I was the only one who was in a position to do it, and I felt very compelled to do so.

Derived terms

Verb

compelled

  1. simple past and past participle of compel
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