Thesaurus / impelling
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synonyms for impelling
- alive
- effective
- operating
- flowing
- functioning
- going
- mobile
- movable
- operative
- progressive
- pushing
- rapid
- rolling
- running
- rushing
- rustling
- shifting
- simmering
- speeding
- streaming
- traveling
- turning
- walking
- working
- astir
- at work
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- exertive
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- in force
- in play
- in process
- moving
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- swarming
- appealing
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- dangerous
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- eye-popping
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- inveigling
- luring
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- vital
- weighty
- burning
- called-for
- capital
- chief
- clamant
- clamorous
- crying
- demanded
- driving
- exigent
- foremost
- heavy
- hurry-up
- importunate
- insistent
- instant
- leading
- life and death
- momentous
- paramount
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- required
- salient
- top-priority
- touch and go
- touchy
- wanted
- pressure
- restraint
- coercion
- compulsion
- driving
- duress
- goad
- hang-up
- impulsion
- monkey on one's back
- motive
- necessity
- repression
- spring
- spur
- suppression
- violence
- a must
- no-no
antonyms for impelling
MOST RELEVANT
- implausible
- impotent
- improbable
- incapable
- incredible
- ineffective
- invalid
- unbelievable
- unlikely
- unreasonable
- weak
- dampening
- discouraging
- disheartening
- ineffectual
- easy
- facile
- inessential
- insignificant
- light
- minor
- needless
- nonessential
- optional
- secondary
- small
- trivial
- uncritical
- unimportant
- unnecessary
- unsubstantial
- voluntary
- moderate
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use impelling in a sentence
There were no impassioned affections glowing in her bosom and impelling her to his side.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTIt impresses with a sense of increased obligation, that furnishes an ardour of mind, powerfully impelling to duty.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMA mad desire began to come over him; a strange, impelling scheme took hold of his brain.
THE WHITE DESERTCOURTNEY RYLEY COOPERSpringing on board, we each seized a pole and began impelling the raft from the shore.
IN THE WILDS OF FLORIDAW.H.G. KINGSTONHer face then, with its dead whiteness and the eyes of flame, held a tragic, impelling beauty that stung Anson into remonstrance.
THE MAN OF THE FORESTZANE GREYAldo's curved red lips under his very young moustache opened to words as well as to kisses under Nancy's impelling, eager love.
THE DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRESSomething within her surged up impelling her to tell him of Barney's savage yet unformulated threat.
CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWINDLEROY SCOTTImpelling causes, however, do not enter into the essence of a thing, but prepare for it and perfect it.
ON PRAYER AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFEST. THOMAS AQUINASBoth indeed need the same religious discipline, but the one needs it more as an impelling, the other more as a restraining motive.
THE HEARTH-STONESAMUEL OSGOODThe impelling force or lateral attraction which account for rotations cannot account for levitations.
MYSTERIOUS PSYCHIC FORCESCAMILLE FLAMMARIONWORDS RELATED TO IMPELLING
- alive
- astir
- at work
- bustling
- effective
- efficacious
- exertive
- flowing
- functioning
- going
- hasty
- impelling
- in force
- in play
- in process
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- operating
- operative
- progressive
- pushing
- rapid
- restless
- rolling
- running
- rushing
- rustling
- shifting
- simmering
- speeding
- speedy
- streaming
- swarming
- traveling
- turning
- walking
- working
- agitative
- animating
- appealing
- arousing
- arresting
- astonishing
- bracing
- breathtaking
- commoving
- dangerous
- dramatic
- electrifying
- exhilarant
- eye-popping
- far-out
- fine
- flashy
- groovy
- hair-raising
- heady
- hectic
- impelling
- impressive
- interesting
- intoxicating
- intriguing
- lively
- melodramatic
- mind-blowing
- moving
- neat
- overpowering
- overwhelming
- provocative
- racy
- rip-roaring
- rousing
- sensational
- showy
- spine-tingling
- stimulating
- stirring
- thrilling
- titillating
- wild
- zestful
- alive
- astir
- at work
- bustling
- effective
- efficacious
- exertive
- flowing
- functioning
- going
- hasty
- impelling
- in force
- in play
- in process
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- operating
- operative
- progressive
- pushing
- rapid
- restless
- rolling
- running
- rushing
- rustling
- shifting
- simmering
- speeding
- speedy
- streaming
- swarming
- traveling
- turning
- walking
- working
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.