Driven vs Impelled - What's the difference?
driven | impelled |
Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
(of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.
(impel)
To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast with propel, to compel or drive extrinsically).
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To drive forward; to propel an object.
As verbs the difference between driven and impelled
is that driven is while impelled is (impel).As an adjective driven
is obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.driven
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* demand-driven English adjectives ending in -en English irregular past participles ----impelled
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*impeled (US )Verb
(head)impel
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(impell)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}