persuasive
/pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪsɪv/
persuasive adjective: able to persuade; convincing.
Adjective
persuasive (comparative more persuasive, superlative most persuasive)
- Able to persuade; convincing.
- But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55
- Synonyms:
- forcible, cogent, convincing, flexanimous, inducing, inducive, inductious, persuadable, persuading, persuasible
- Antonyms:
- dehortative, dehortatory, dehorting, dissuading, dissuasive, retractive, unconvincing, unpersuasive
Noun
persuasive (plural persuasives)
- That which persuades; incitement.
- He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […]1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837, volume 1, page 68
persuasive meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
persuasive in Tamil
- ஏற்புடையதாக்கும், வசமாக்கும்
persuasive in Marathi
- पटवून देणारी
persuasive in Bengali
- প্ররোচনামূলক
persuasive in Telugu
- ఒప్పించేది
More languagesFewer languages
- persuasive in Malayalam
- പ്രവർത്തകമായ, അനുനയിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ആകർഷിയായ, അനുനയക്ഷമമായ
- persuasive in Kannada
- ಒಲಿಸಬಲ್ಲ, ಒಪ್ಪಿಸಬಲ್ಲ
- persuasive in Arabic
- مُقْنِع muqniʕ
Examples of persuasive in a sentence
- The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
- But is there a persuasive case that the ethics of merely sentient beings should make this distinction?
- It requires a clear thesis, backed by rigorously marshaled evidence, in the service of a persuasive argument.
Synonyms of persuasive
6 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- persuadable
- persuading
- pleaful
- psychagogic
- psychagogical
- suading
Antonyms
Forms of persuasive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more persuasive |
| superlative | most persuasive |
| Noun | |
| plural | persuasives |
Origin of persuasive
From Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persuāsīvus, from Latin past participle stem of persuādēre + -īvus.
Words formed from persuasive
Phrases with persuasive
Questions about persuasive
- What does persuasive mean?
- Persuasive means able to persuade; convincing.
- What is persuasive in Tamil?
- Persuasive in Tamil is ஏற்புடையதாக்கும், வசமாக்கும். See Persuasive meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is persuasive?
- Persuasive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce persuasive?
- Persuasive is pronounced /pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪsɪv/.
Words near persuasive in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: persuasive (page history and authors); persuasive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); persuasive (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); persuasive (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); persuasive (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); persuasive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); persuasive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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