adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a convincing winespecially BrE (= a win by a large amount)
▪ Scotland cruised to a convincing win over Ireland.
a convincing/credible explanation (=one that you can believe is true)
▪ The author fails to provide a convincing explanation for the main character’s motives.
a plausible/convincing story
▪ She tried to think up a convincing story to tell her parents.
convincing (=seeming like a real person)
▪ The characters were totally convincing.
convincing/compelling (=making you feel sure that something is true)
▪ The data provides compelling evidence that the climate is changing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
entirely
▪ Eliot's argument, never entirely convincing in its own age, had by the 1940s ceased to convince altogether.
▪ This explanation is not entirely convincing, however, since it overlooks the important industry and workplace negotiations which also take place.
▪ Eccleshall's argument is very neat, but it is not entirely convincing.
less
▪ The contributors' arguments became a little less convincing when they came to explain why mantras were used.
▪ A long, involved excuse always sounds less convincing.
▪ Three weeks into the campaign the conventional wisdom is looking less convincing.
▪ You will find that your writing becomes thinner, poorer, less convincing if you take this easy way out.
▪ In view of such evidence the peace process seems much less convincing than its proponents have suggested.
▪ When the theoretical assumptions themselves are examined the case is even less convincing.
▪ The more Mr Roberts strains to show his charming side, the less convincing he seems.
▪ Rueschemeyer's other main distinction between the law and medicine is less convincing.
more
▪ The third argument for Labour's cautiousness is only slightly more convincing.
▪ But it's a good deal more convincing than Damage's empty posing.
▪ Secondly, production convenience is probably a more convincing reason.
▪ The arguments that are now available to justify the use of particular methods are much more convincing than they used to be.
▪ The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven.
▪ I hope it's more convincing than Alec Gilroy's departure from the Rovers Return last week.
▪ There are two reasons why the latter is far more convincing.
▪ But it was Pearce's assessment which carried a more convincing argument in favour of Ron Atkinson's team.
most
▪ As it happens, the most convincing way of pretending to clean a window is to actually do so.
▪ The most convincing recent estimate records a fall in that proportion from 77 percent in 1905 to 61 percent in 1916.
▪ You are the best and most convincing appointment for London.
▪ Although challenged, this remains the most convincing explanation.
▪ These pathological findings are in agreement with clinical studies, the most convincing evidence coming from the prospective community study in Framingham.
▪ The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure.
▪ This is one of the most convincing of all proofs of increasingly rigid discipline on the battlefield.
▪ Mary McMenamin as Maria, the maid was most convincing.
so
▪ All the Star Wars hardware, so convincing on-screen, would look like toys by comparison.
▪ Put like that it didn't sound quite so convincing.
▪ How were clinical trials, so convincing for antituberculous drugs, to be brought into the sensitive area of subjective experience?
very
▪ Unless they were very good actors, they sounded very convincing to me when they said they were innocent.
▪ The hon. Gentleman is not a very convincing advocate of the policies of youth.
▪ But age-regression does look very convincing to the observer.
▪ Not that there weren't offers for Mario's services, but they weren't very convincing.
▪ This patronising obfuscation was never very convincing.
▪ Professional models do not always look very convincing in a factory or a highly technical laboratory.
▪ Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire.
■ NOUN
argument
▪ Furthermore, as we have seen in the discussion of Marxist accounts, monocausal explanations do not provide particularly convincing arguments.
▪ But it was Pearce's assessment which carried a more convincing argument in favour of Ron Atkinson's team.
▪ This book will not provide the convincing argument for change.
▪ The problem is to find a convincing argument for local ethical scepticism which has no expansionist tendencies.
▪ The conventions about what counts as a convincing argument vary with time and place.
▪ This is potentially the most convincing argument.
case
▪ It is also important to be able to make out a continuing and convincing case to young people.
▪ But Prestel does seem to have made a convincing case for its role in educational computing.
evidence
▪ The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven.
▪ He will demand convincing evidence before he adopts a new theory.
▪ Taking these cases at face value, does the apparent ability to make and use maps provide convincing evidence of active intelligence?
▪ There is no convincing evidence that advertising influences total consumption or has an impact on levels of alcohol abuse.
▪ These pathological findings are in agreement with clinical studies, the most convincing evidence coming from the prospective community study in Framingham.
▪ That, however, is not possible, for too much convincing evidence opposes the suggestion that there was any such category.
▪ In fact, the most convincing evidence is from Barton Farm, where coins provide a terminus post quem of c.293.
▪ As yet we have no convincing evidence that this is the case.
explanation
▪ The first point to note is that no-one has a convincing explanation for the existence of W-cells.
▪ Although challenged, this remains the most convincing explanation.
▪ There is a convincing explanation for this pattern.
▪ What need to import further obscure perplexities into an already complex situation - particularly when simpler and convincing explanations lay to hand?
▪ There is a more convincing explanation, however.
▪ No convincing explanation was initially produced to explain these features.
▪ Despite much research we can not even today offer a convincing explanation.
reason
▪ No convincing reason has been given for treating onshore and offshore workers differently - often by the same company.
▪ But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance.
▪ Secondly, production convenience is probably a more convincing reason.
▪ No one has a convincing reason for this.
victory
▪ Then, leading 12-4, Hall took three points running for a convincing victory.
▪ Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.
▪ Anything less than a convincing victory by Graham Taylor's team will undermine their chances of qualifying from Group 2.
▪ If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.
win
▪ Let's start preparing for a convincing win against Sheffield Utd.
▪ After a convincing win in game 1 Kasparov fell prey to overconfidence, losing games 4 and 5.
▪ The final touch down saw a convincing win over Chicksands.
▪ Barnton lie only two points behind Mobberley after a convincing win at Knutsford.
▪ Lets hope for a convincing win.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Archeologists found convincing proof that the Vikings had landed in North America.
▪ I didn't find any of their arguments very convincing.
▪ Investigators have not found a convincing motive for the crime.
▪ Jurors thought the defence's arguments were very convincing.
▪ No one seemed able to give a convincing answer to my question.
▪ There is convincing evidence that smoking causes heart disease.
▪ There is no convincing evidence that the tax cut will produce new jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eliot's argument, never entirely convincing in its own age, had by the 1940s ceased to convince altogether.
▪ Lets hope for a convincing win.
▪ Nor is the other alleged prehistoric routeway, the A432, any more convincing.
▪ The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell.
▪ The hon. Gentleman is not a very convincing advocate of the policies of youth.
▪ The most convincing recent estimate records a fall in that proportion from 77 percent in 1905 to 61 percent in 1916.