adj
Meaning 1
Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
coercive
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kəʊˈɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
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adj
Meaning 2
Such that the ratio of |F(x)| to x approaches infinity as x approaches infinity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
serving or intended to coerce
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- authority is directional instead of coercive
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English coerce Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English coercive From coerce + -ive.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: məcburi — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Bulgarian: принудителен (prinuditelen) — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Catalan: coercitiu — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Czech: donucovací — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Czech: vynucovací — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Finnish: painostus- — displaying a tendency to coerce
- French: coercif — displaying a tendency to coerce
- French: coercitif — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Galician: coercitivo — displaying a tendency to coerce
- German: zwingend — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Italian: coercitivo — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Portuguese: coercivo — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Portuguese: coercitivo — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Russian: принудительный (prinuditelʹnyj) — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Russian: принуждающий (prinuždajuščij) — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Spanish: coercitivo — displaying a tendency to coerce
- Turkish: zorlayıcı — displaying a tendency to coerce