Forcible vs Strenuous - What's the difference?
forcible | strenuous | Related terms |
Able to be forced.
Having force.
* Bible, Job vi. 2
* Francis Bacon
* Hooker
Done by force. Oxford American Dictionaries (MacBook widget)
* 2008 , U.S. Department of Justice – Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Having a powerful effect; telling
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Urgent, ardent, zealous.
Requiring great exertion.
* 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
Forcible is a related term of strenuous.
As adjectives the difference between forcible and strenuous
is that forcible is able to be forced while strenuous is urgent, ardent, zealous.forcible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- How forcible are right words!
- Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken.
- That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin.
Crime in the United States
- Forcible rape, as defined in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. Attempts or assaults to commit rape by force or threat of force are also included; however, statutory rape (without force) and other sex offenses are excluded.
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strenuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.