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What is the adjective for coercive?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb coerce which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

coercive
  1. Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.
  2. (mathematics) Such that the ration of |F(x)| to x approaches infinity as x approaches infinity.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The inescapable evils of coercive behavior are not unique to government.”
      “Sullivan defends a Galenic view of lethargy, arguing that it is a symptom of resistance to coercive regimes.”
      “Surely it is tautological to say that coercive organizations rely upon coercion as the predominant method of control?”
coercionary
  1. Of, pertaining to, or employing coercion
coercitive
  1. Obsolete form of coercive.
coercible
  1. Susceptible to coercion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A person already in jail is not shocked and coercible as someone newly arrested might be.”
      “There can surely no longer be any justification for a law that treats wives as being more coercible than unmarried women.”
      “When one is weak and the other strong, when one is coercible by virtue of this weakness and the other holds all the cards, competition inevitably becomes exploitation.”
coerced
coercing
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