IMPELLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impelled mean? 

• IMPELLED (adjective)
  The adjective IMPELLED has 1 sense:

1. urged or forced to action through moral pressure

  Familiarity information: IMPELLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPELLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Urged or forced to action through moral pressure

Synonyms:

driven; impelled

Context example:

felt impelled to take a stand against the issue

Similar:

motivated (provided with a motive or given incentive for action)

 Context examples 

His mother and fear impelled him to keep away from the white wall.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And his fresh mind, untaxed for twenty years and impelled by maturity of desire, gripped hold of what he read with a virility unusual to the student mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was what I remotely dreaded when I was first impelled to stay away from England.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was impelled to do them, and did not reason about them at all.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was evident to me that he thought he might bring trouble to the roof he was under, and that that was the motive which impelled him to go.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was impelled to look at her husband, and she saw the sternness with which he watched her.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

For I had come to see a malignant devil in him which impelled him to hate all the world.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Injuries resulting when a person is struck by particles impelled with violent force from an explosion.

(Blast Injury, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Eleanor seemed now impelled into resolution and speech.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)