English Dictionary

forcible

adj

Done by force, forced. / (rare or obsolete) Having (physical) force, forceful. / Having a powerful effect; forceful, telling, strong, convincing, effective. / Able to be forced.

The police used forcible measures to control the crowd.

意味（1）

Done by force, forced.

I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems, / Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far, / Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed, / And, in embraces forcible and foul / Engendering with me, of that rape begot / These yelling monsters, that with ceaseless cry / Surround me, as thou saw'st

意味（2）

(rare or obsolete) Having (physical) force, forceful.

[…] he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance.

意味（3）

Having a powerful effect; forceful, telling, strong, convincing, effective.

But that which hath been once most sufficient, may wax otherwise by alteration of time and place; that punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin, may grow afterwards too weak and feebled.

意味（4）

Able to be forced.

[…] it seems that an entry is not forcible by the bare drawing up a latch, or pulling back the bolt of a door, there being no appearance therein of its being done by strong hand, or multitude of people; […]