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Forced vs Forcedly - What's the difference?

forced | forcedly |

As a verb forced

is (force).

As an adjective forced

is obtained forcefully, not naturally.

As an adverb forcedly is

in a manner that is, or seems, forced.

forced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (force)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • obtained forcefully, not naturally
    • Her forced smile was harder and harder to keep as her critical father kept on complaining about her.
  • opened or accessed using force

    • Derived terms

    * forced entry * forced labour * forced landing * forced laugh * forced march * forced sale * forced smile

    forcedly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a manner that is, or seems, forced.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 15, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=Class Acts: Paris Ballet Student Exhibitions, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In the last 75 years, the two main resident choreographers who have reshaped the Paris Opera Ballet are Serge Lifar and Rudolf Nureyev, intelligent stars whose choreography was generally empty, pompously (Lifar) or forcedly (Nureyev) academicist, astoundingly anti-musical in emphasis, strong on surface and almost entirely devoid of dance tone. }}