Usually means: Imposing will through force, threats.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. coercive: Merriam-Webster
  2. coercive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coercive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coercive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coercive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coercive, coercive: Wordnik
  7. coercive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coercive: Wiktionary
  9. coercive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coercive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coercive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. coercive: Dictionary.com
  13. coercive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Coercive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Coercive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. coercive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. coercive: Rhymezone
  18. Coercive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. coercive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. coercive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. coercive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. coercive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. coercive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. coercive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. coercive: Legal dictionary

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  1. coercive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coercive: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coercive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (coercive)

▸ adjective:  Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics, of a function F) Such that the ratio of |F(x)| to x approaches infinity as x approaches infinity.

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powerful, pulsive, compulsive, enforcive, compellatory, heavy-handed, compelling, insistent, compulsative, compulsatory, more...

Opposite:
persuasive, voluntary, non-coercive, gentle, encouraging

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coercive power, coercive force, coercive acts, coercive forces, Coercive function, more...

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more, less, inherently, non, intrinsically, very, longer, restrictive, highly, worst, normative

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Similar:
powerful, pulsive, compulsive, enforcive, compellatory, heavy-handed, compelling, insistent, compulsative, compulsatory, more...

Opposite:
persuasive, voluntary, non-coercive, gentle, encouraging

Phrases:
coercive power, coercive force, coercive acts, coercive forces, Coercive function, coercive violene, coercive diplomacy, coercive control, coercive measures, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, inherently, non, intrinsically, very, longer, restrictive, highly, worst, normative

Colors:
    black,     dark gray,     blood red,     deep purple,     midnight blue, more...



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