adjective
- Driving or urging forward; having the power to impel or compel.
Usage: Formal or literary usage
noun
- Something that impels or drives forward; a driving force or motive.
Usage: Rare; formal or technical usage
Examples
- The impellent force of curiosity drove her to investigate further.
- An impellent desire for justice motivated the activists.
- The wind provided an impellent for the sailboat.
- He felt an impellent need to speak the truth.
- The impellent behind his decision was a sense of responsibility.
- Impellent circumstances forced them to act quickly.