The phrase "was compelled to" suggests that someone felt obliged or forced to do something, implying a lack of choice or initiative. Antonyms for this phrase include "chose to," "decided to," and "elected to," which all imply a sense of agency and deliberation in making a decision. Other possible antonyms might include "refused to," "avoided," or "opted out," which all suggest a deliberate decision not to take action. By contrast, "was commanded to" and "was ordered to" imply an external force influencing the decision, while "was persuaded to" suggests an influence from someone else's ideas or opinions.

What are the antonyms for Was compelled to?

• v.

  • have
  • deny
  ,
  • disallow
  ,
  • exclude
  ,
  • forget
  ,
  • halt
  ,
  • hold
  ,
  • ignore
  ,
  • keep
  ,
  • kill
  ,
  • lack
  ,
  • need
  ,
  • neglect
  ,
  • refuse
  ,
  • reject
  ,
  • stop
  ,
  • want
  .

Famous quotes with Was compelled to

• 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
• "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
• Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work.

  Yukio Mishima

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