coercive
/kəʊˈɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
coercive adjective: displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
Adjective
coercive (comparative more coercive, superlative most coercive)
- Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
- The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program, according to U.S. officials and independent analysts.2006 July 19, Post Staff Writers, “U.S. Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran”, in Washington Post, Washington, page A01
- Such that the ratio of |F(x)| to x approaches infinity as x approaches infinity.
coercive meaning in Tamil and Bengali
coercive in Tamil
- வலுக்கட்டாயமாக
coercive in Bengali
- জবরদস্তিমূলক
Examples of coercive in a sentence
- Is Syldavia acting in a coercive manner here?
- He denied ever using the phrase "forward-leaning" (a euphemism at the Pentagon for the most coercive techniques) over torture policy.
- Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state.
Forms of coercive
| comparative | more coercive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most coercive |
Origin of coercive
From coerce + -ive.
Words formed from coercive
- anticoercive
- cocoercive
- coercive citation
- coercive force
- coercively
- coerciveness
- coercive persuasion
- coercivity
- discoercive
- hypocoercive
- noncoercive
- semicoercive
- uncoercive
Phrases with coercive
Questions about coercive
- What does coercive mean?
- Coercive means displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
- What is coercive in Tamil?
- Coercive in Tamil is வலுக்கட்டாயமாக. See Coercive meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is coercive?
- Coercive is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce coercive?
- Coercive is pronounced /kəʊˈɜː(ɹ)sɪv/.
Words near coercive in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: coercive (page history and authors); coercive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coercive (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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