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Definition: Unforced |
UnforcedAdjective1. Not brought about by coercion or force; "the confession was uncoerced". 2. Not resulting from undue effort; not forced; "a voice with a pleasingly unforced quality"; "his playing is facile and unstrained". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unforced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: UnforcedSynonyms: uncoerced (adj), unstrained (adj), willing (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Freedom | Unassailed, unforced, uncompelled. |
Willingness | Voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous; unasked; (ask; ); unforced; (free). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unforced |
| English words defined with "unforced": uncontrived, unstrained, unstudied. (references) |
| "Unforced" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unforced" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
error musical shanoff unforced | 6 |
error unforced | 2 |
error statistics unforced | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unforced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), спонтанен (candid, instinctive, spontaneous, unconditioned, unconstrained, unpremeditated, unprompted, unrehearsed, unrequested, unschooled, unscripted, unsolicited, unstudied, untaught), доброволен (freewill, spontaneous, unsolicited, voluntary, volunteer). (various references) | |
Dutch | ongekunsteld (naïf, naïve, naif, naive, natural), natuurlýk (natural, naturally, of course). (various references) | |
German | ungezwungen (at ease, casual, casually, cavalierly, easy, informal, informally, spontaneous, unceremonious, uncoerced, unforcedly), natürlich (artless, certainly, elemental, inbuilt, natural, Naturally, of course, physical, simple, unadorned, unaffected, unaffectedly, unpretentious, unpretentiously, unsophisticated, unstudied, unstudiedly, untaught). (various references) | |
Italian | spontaneo (careless, cavalierly, natural, offhand, offhanded, offhandedly, spontaneous, unaffected, unstudied, voluntary). (various references) | |
Manx | seyr (autonomous; carpenter, aweigh, complimentary, disengaged, floating, fluid, free, gratis, gratuitous, immune, independent, inexpensive, wright), neueiginagh, gyn egin, dooghyssagh (ancestral, congenital, heritable, idiomatic, inborn, inherent, instinctive, native, natural, vernacular). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orcedunfay.(various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neprisiljen (unconstrained), neprinuđen, neiznuđen. (various references) | |
Spanish | desenvuelto (cavalierly, informal, jaunty, perky, rakish). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không bị ép buộc; tự nhiên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unforced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inforced, nforce, uncoerced, unfaced, unfucked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: frounced. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cornfed, crunode, founder, frounce, refound. | |
-2 letters: confer, corned, enduro, fecund, fonder, fondue, forced, refund, undoer. | |
-3 letters: coden, coder, coned, cored, cornu, coude, credo, crone, crude, cured, decor, douce, drone, dunce, duroc, fondu, force, found, frond, nuder, ounce, recon, redon, rouen, round, under, unfed, uredo. | |
-4 letters: cero, code, coed, cone, cord, core, corf, corn, crud. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-f-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: cofounder, unfrocked. | |
+2 letters: cofounders, configured, confounder, undercroft, unenforced. | |
+3 letters: confounders, countrified, countryfied, unconfirmed, undercrofts. | |
+4 letters: counterfired, reconfigured, unreinforced. | |
+5 letters: counterfeited. | |
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