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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

involuntary or compelled action;

e.g. He was forced to attend the academy.

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Similar Words

Affected

Artificial

Assuming

Bogus

Claptrap

Coercive

Compulsory

Contrived

Cutesy

Driven

Drove

Factitious

Fake

False

Feigned

Glib

Imperative

Incumbent

Involuntary

Made

Mandatory

Mechanical

Mock

Motivated

Muscled

Necessary

Nondeliberate

Nonelective

Nonpurposive

Obligatory

Peremptory

Phony

Plastic

Pseudo

Put-on

Required

Sham

Simulated

Spurious

Strained

Unforeseeable

Unintended

Unintentional

Unnatural

Unprompted

Unrealistic

Unwilled

Unwilling

Will-less

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Opposite Words

Advised

Artless

Authentic

Bloodless

Chosen

Conscious

Considered

Deliberate

Discretionary

Dispensable

Easy

Effortless

Extemporaneous

Genuine

Guileless

Hearty

Honest

Impromptu

Impulsive

Inconsequential

Insignificant

Instinctive

Intended

Intentional

Let

Natural

Nonessential

Peaceful

Premeditated

Premeditative

Prepense

Purposeful

Purposive

Real

Realistic

Right

Satisfied

Self-imposed

Self-inflicted

Set

Sincere

Smooth

True

Unaffected

Unconscious

Unimportant

Unnecessary

Unpretentious

Unprompted

Unrehearsed

Unstudied

Unwanted

Voluntary

Volunteer

Wholehearted

Willed

Willful

Willing

Witting

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Related Words

Accidental

Accidentally

All-important

Artful

Artificial

Automatic

Backhand

Backhanded

Browbeat

Calculated

Canned

Casual

Chance

Charged

Coercive

Conscious

Conventional

Counterfeit

Cultivated

Cute

Deliberate

Depressed

Double

Double-faced

Driven

Drove

Empty

Essential

Exaggerated

Facile

Fake

Feigned

Fluky

Fortuitous

Genteel

Goody-goody

Histrionic

Hokey

Hollow

Hypocritical

Impersonal

Impulsive

Inadvertent

Incidental

Indispensable

Inflexible

Insincere

Insistent

Instinctive

Janus-faced

Jive

Labored

Left-handed

Lip

Mealy

Mealymouthed

Mincing

Ordered

Pat

Persistent

Phony

Premeditated

Pressing

Requisite

Rigid

Ripped

Spontaneous

Stiff

Studied

Theatrical

Threatened

Two

Two-faced

Unauthentic

Unconscious

Unctuous

Unintended

Unintentional

Unknowing

Unplanned

Unpremeditated

Unprompted

Unreal

Unrealistic

Unwitting

Urgent

Wooden

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