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억지

Pronunciation
억찌
Part of speech
noun
Vocabulary level
advanced

groundlessness; unnaturalness; unreasonableness

An obstinate will to push ahead with something that has a low chance of success.

Idioms

억지 춘향(이)

coerced Chunhyang, the heroine of Korean classical novel 'The Story of Chunhyang'

A situation where one makes something happen by force or something happens by force.