1. forcible - Adjective
2. forcible - Adjective Satellite
Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
Violent; impetuous.
Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. Charles Cooley
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Stephen Leacock
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. Benjamin Disraeli
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly. Elias Lyman Magoon
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. Timothy Thomas Fortune
Until 1989, there was a complete consensus in all sources (Hindu, Muslim and European) which spoke out on the matter, viz. that the Babri Masjid had been built in forcible replacement of a Hindu temple. Koenraad Elst