Impelled Synonyms and Antonyms

Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. propelled
  2. compelled
  3. urged
  4. stimulated
  5. motivated
  6. instigated
  7. prompted
  8. forced
  9. moved
  10. inspired
  11. triggered
  12. sent
  13. spurred
  14. pushed
  15. incited
  16. provoked
  17. goaded
  18. pressed
  19. prodded
  20. animated
  21. pricked
  22. piqued
  23. influenced
  24. driven
  25. induced
  26. excited
  27. inflamed
  28. encouraged
  29. galvanized
  30. fomented
  31. constrained
Antonyms:
  1. dissuaded
  2. delayed
  3. slowed
  4. suppressed
  5. repressed
Urged or forced to action through moral pressure
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. driven

Impelled Sentence Examples

  • Further, says Koheleth, man is impelled to study the world,.

  • I am impelled to this by an instinctive emotion such as has never deceived me.

  • It is wrong, therefore, to impute to Kant, as is often done, the view that human reason is, on ultimate subjects, at war with itself, in the sense of being impelled by equally strong arguments towards alternatives contradictory of each other.

  • The assassination of Maurice in 602 impelled him to a war of revenge against Rome, in the course of which his armiesin 6o8 and, again, in 615 and 626penetrated as far as Chalcedon opposite Constantinople, ravaged Syria, reduced Antioch (611), Damascus (613), and Jerusalem (614), and carried off the holy cross to Ctesiphon; in 619 Egypt was occupied.

  • It was indeed the requirements of the fiscus and the conscription which impelled the imperial government to regulate the system.

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