Forcefully
Forcefully adverb - In a vigorous and forceful manner.
Usage example: shut the door a little too forcefully and broke the glass
Hard is a synonym for forcefully in strong topic. In some cases you can use "Hard" instead an adverb "Forcefully".
Hard
Hard adverb - In a vigorous and forceful manner.
Usage example: the wind blew hard all day
Forcefully is a synonym for hard in strong topic. You can use "Forcefully" instead an adverb "Hard", if it concerns topics such as severely.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- firmly and forcefully
- firmly and hard
- severely and forcefully
- severely and hard
- earnestly and forcefully
- earnestly and hard
- energetically and forcefully
- energetically and hard
- strenuously and forcefully
- strenuously and hard
- vigorously and forcefully
- vigorously and hard
- violently and forcefully
- violently and hard
Both words in one sentence
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Also subverted here when a customer assumes an employee is wearing an eye patch as fashion statement and finds out the hard way that it isn't when she forcefully removes it.
Source: Obfuscating Disability - Contrast with Brainwashed and Face Monster Turn tropes, where the character is forcefully modified and robbed of free will to be steered into evil, or Mind Rape where they were wrecked so hard their free will wasn't working straight to steer them into evil.
Source: Forced into Evil
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