compelled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛld/

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• Rhymes: -ɛld
• Hyphenation: com‧pelled

Adjective

compelled (comparative more compelled, superlative most compelled)

1. Driven; forced.
   • 2013, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce, Education Research, page 42:

     I do believe state policymakers are very compelled to address those early years.

   • 2021, Lew Hunter, Naked Screenwriting:

     I was very compelled by the experience of watching Hamlet and the opening scene that has the ghost of his father on the parapet saying, “Revenge my death.”

   • 2021, Liliana Chávez Díaz, Latin American Documentary Narratives, page 223:

     I was the only one who was in a position to do it, and I felt very compelled to do so.

Derived terms

• compelled speech
• uncompelled

 

Verb

compelled

1. simple past and past participle of compel