What is another word for was compelled?

Pronunciation: [wɒz kəmpˈɛld] (IPA)

When we use the phrase "was compelled," it implies that a person had no other choice but to do something. Synonyms for this phrase include words like forced, obligated, urged, driven, pressed, and induced. Using these words in place of "was compelled" can add variety and depth to your writing. For example, instead of saying "I was compelled to attend the meeting," you could say "I was obligated to attend the meeting." Using synonyms helps to convey the same message in a fresh way, allowing the reader to stay engaged and interested in what you are trying to communicate.

What are the hypernyms for Was compelled?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Was compelled

  • It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
    William Banting
  • She has admitted she was not hostile to the Nazis before 1940. She says she was anti-Nazi after 1940, but has produced no evidence that she criticized the Nazis then. She wrote anti-Semitic words in 1938–41, and there is no evidence she was compelled to write them. Queried on her anti-Semitic writings, she told me: "I have never written anything in my life that I did not believe to be true.
    John Mearsheimer
  • I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)
    Dwight D Eisenhower
  • "Most men", he quoted, "are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into shit." Ivan cocked an eyebrow at him. "Who said that? Your grandfather?" "Leonardo da Vinci," Miles returned primly. But was compelled to add, "Grandfather quoted it to me, though."
    Lois McMaster Bujold
  • We may ask ourselves how it came about that modern consciousness of reality began to find literary form for the first time precisely in Henri Beyle of Grenoble.But, such as he was, he offered himself to the moment; circumstances seized him, tossed him about, and laid upon him a unique and unexpected destiny; they formed him so that he was compelled to come to terms with reality in a way which no one had done before him.
    Stendhal

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