Inspired vs Compelled - What's the difference?
inspired | compelled |
Having excellence through inspiration.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 23
, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France
, work=BBC Sport
Filled with inspiration or motivated.
(inspire).
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, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 (compel)
(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up (rfex)
To overpower; to subdue.
* 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 16,
To force, constrain or coerce.
* 1600 , , Julius Caesar , act 5, sc. 1,
* Hallam
To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
* Shakespeare
* 1912 , , Sky Island , ch. 14,
(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
* Dryden
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between inspired and compelled
is that inspired is past tense of inspire while compelled is past tense of compel.As an adjective inspired
is having excellence through inspiration.inspired
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The actor's inspired performance of Hamlet's soliloquy left the audience dumbfounded.
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- The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece .
- He was inspired to learn to fly.
Verb
(head)citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
compelled
English
Verb
(head)compel
English
Verb
- She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.
- Logic compels''' the wise, while fools feel '''compelled by emotions.
- Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.
- Wolsey compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
- Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.
- The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.
- Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled .
- I compel all creatures to my will.
- in one troop compelled
- She had this knight from far compelled .
- (Chapman)