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say it: fawrst
forced is an adjective meaning "produced by or subjected to forcing". It carries 4 recorded senses.
produced by or subjected to forcing
“forced-air heating”
“furnaces of the forced-convection type”
“forced convection in plasma generators”
lacking spontaneity; not natural
“a constrained smile”
“forced heartiness”
“a strained smile”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for forced come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.