Definitions for forcible

forcible for·ci·ble

Spelling: [fawr-suh-buh l, fohr-]
IPA: /ˈfɔr sə bəl, ˈfoʊr-/

Forcible is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in forcible (bcefilor).

Definitions for forcible

adjective

  1. done or effected by force:
  2. producing a powerful effect; having force; effective.
  3. convincing, as reasoning:
  4. characterized by the use of force or violence.

Origin of forcible

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French; see force, -ible

Examples for forcible

It is national in the broadest sense of the term, and primative and forcible to intensity.

But this is the effect of his predilection for individuals of forcible character.

The circumstance made a forcible and indelible impression on my mind.

Conservative advocates of limiting convictions to cases of “forcible rape” often rely on “traditional values.”

And then he was charged not with forcible rape, but with having sex with a prisoner and then aiding her escape.

Conservatives have already opined that the accusations are not of what Paul Ryan might call “forcible rape.”

And this again led to the forcible expulsion of every Morisco in Spain.

A former Ebola patient calls the forcible isolation of returning health-care workers from West Africa a ‘police state approach.’

Many universities have vague—and often overly narrow—conceptions of “forcible sexual offenses.”

"A Sulaco revolution," Decoud pursued in a forcible undertone.

Word Value for forcible
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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