Word Meanings - IMPEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way. The surge impelled me on a craggy coast. Pope. Syn. -- To instigate; incite; induce; influence; force; drive; urge; actuate; move.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPEL)

• Actuate
• Urge
• instigate
• stir
• induce
• influence
• incline
• dispose
• incite
• impel
• prompt
• drive
• Cast
• Hurl
• send down
• throw
• fling
• pitch
• project
• construct
• mold
• frame
• Coerce
• Restrain
• inhibit
• compel
• counteract
• check
• constrain
• force
• confine
• intimidate
• Induce Produce
• cause
• persuade
• actuate
• urge
• move
• prevail on
• Inspire
• Animate
• inspirit
• inflame
• imbue
• encourage
• inhale
• enliven
• cheer
• breathe in
• infuse
• exhilarate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPEL)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to IMPEL)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• FLORA
  The goddess of flowers and spring.
• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• FLORENTINE
  Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• FLAXWEED
  See TOADFLAX
• FLIPPER
  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOTA
  A fleet; especially, a
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• DEFLUX
  Downward flow. Bacon.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .