| 释义 |
forceful, a.|ˈfɔəsfʊl|
[f. force n.1 + -ful.]
1. Full of force, powerful, strong, vigorous.
1616Chapman Homer's Hymn to Venus i. 204 From all the Fayre Of this so forcefull concourse. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 374 The Waters..Black Sands, as from a forceful Engine throw. 1725Pope Odyss. vi. 150 With forceful strength a branch the Heroe rends. 1784Cowper Task iv. 315 The lands..Upturn'd so lately by the forceful share. 1824Scott Let. to Ld. Montagu 15 June in Lockhart, The Turf is no doubt a very forceful temptation. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. lxxvii. 18 In the hands of a forceful minister.
b. Of speech, style, etc.: Cogent, impressive, efficacious, effective.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 18 A forcefull manner of speaking. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 480 A Word so force-full and significant. 1746Collins Manners 72 Each forceful thought. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 8 His clear classical, forceful style. 1870Proctor Other Worlds vi. 147 A forceful argument. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. ii. 54 Melodious and forceful verse.
2. Acting with force or violence; boisterous, impetuous, violent.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie 145 The forcefull floud his vessell doth not spaire. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Trophies 1038 Whose forceful stream runs smoothly serpenting. 1812Examiner 28 Sept. 620/1 The forceful ejection of a man and his family from their home. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. (1873) 149 Her forceful knocking must Heaven's door assail. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 49 As trees by forceful artifice are made to grow downwards..instead of upwards.
b. Driven with force or violence.
1697Dryden æneid ii. 65 Against the Steed he threw His forceful Spear. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad 164 Deep through the ranks the forceful weapon past.
3. quasi-adv. = forcefully.
1718Rowe Lucan iv. 1023 While his broad Knee bears forceful on his Groin. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. xiii. 71 The water would burst out as forceful from the one as the other.
Hence ˈforcefully adv.; ˈforcefulness.
a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) I. 415 The external fluid..presses against it as forcefully as its contents press out. 1822Examiner 616/2 He sang very pleasingly, if not forcefully. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1076 By..forcefulness of wealth. 1832Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 117 It will butt forcefully against the ramparts. 1866Contemp. Rev. II. 156 The idiomatic forcefulness of Calvin. |