THESAURUS
compelling
actuating, acute, animating, causal, causative, clamorous, coactive, compulsive, compulsory, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictating, directive, driving, exigent, gripping, high-pressure, high-priority, holding, impelling, imperative, imperious, impulsive, inducive, insistent, instant, instructive, irresistible, jussive, mandating, motivating, motivational, motive, moving, obligating, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, peremptory, pivotal, possessing, preceptive, preoccupying, prescriptive, pressing, restraining, urgent
ROGET THESAURUS
compelling
Compulsion
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compulsion, coercion, coaction, constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription, force, brute force, main force, physical force, the sword, ultima ratio, club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du plus fort, martial law, restraint, necessity, force majeure, Hobson's choice,
compelling, coercive, coactive, inexorable, compulsory, compulsatory, obligatory, stringent, peremptory, forcible, not to be trifled with, irresistible, compelled, fain to, by force, by force of arms, on compulsion, perforce, vi et armis, under the lash, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, forcibly, by a strong arm, under protest, in spite of one's teeth, against one's will, nolens volens, by stress of circumstances, by stress of weather, under press of, de rigueur, with a gun to one's head, I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
