attractive force

1. 1.

   the force by which one object attracts another

   Synonymsattraction

   Broaderforce

   Narroweraffinitychemical bondgravitymagnetismvan der Waal's forces

Questions about attractive force

What does attractive force mean?

attractive force means "the force by which one object attracts another".

What is another word for attractive force?

Close synonyms include attraction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is attractive force a common word?

attractive force is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.