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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
persuasive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Insurers have one of Washington's best-organised lobbies, as persuasive as it is litigious.
▪ So powerful in fact that the medium of television itself can be as persuasive as the message it sends.
more
▪ But their other argument is possibly more persuasive: it's that farm saving is not an easy option.
▪ The worst is often passionately intrusive, while the best is readily eclipsed by noisier and more persuasive methods of dissemination.
▪ On the contrary, it is becoming politically more savvy and more persuasive all the time.
▪ But neither should it be formally abandoned until a more persuasive case could be made for doing so.
▪ The fearful electorate found Reagan's outrage and can-do optimism more persuasive than the dour Brown's equivocation.
▪ In one case, the claim was no more persuasive than my claim about my Norman ancestors.
▪ Little more persuasive is the argument that under another tsar the regime could have withstood revolutionary pressure indefinitely.
▪ Even more persuasive are small angle neutron scattering studies.
most
▪ The most persuasive piece of evidence here is the language used by Papinian in discussing the rescript.
▪ Still, Freedman's tour de force of a final chapter is his most persuasive.
▪ Sisman is at his most persuasive when he examines a question that has long troubled scholars.
▪ This double appeal is turning woman-centred methods into the most persuasive and influential aspect of woman-centred psychology.
so
▪ He was so persuasive, and the salary was twice what I had been getting.
very
▪ He's a very persuasive man.
▪ But Stan is a very persuasive fellow.
▪ I got nowhere, of course, because in an argument Trevor can be very persuasive.
▪ He was, in any case, very persuasive.
▪ She didn't doubt he could be very persuasive - given time.
▪ Of course, the propounding may be very persuasive and the teacher needs to be wary.
■ NOUN
argument
▪ But Haig had persuasive arguments to support his inflexible resolve.
▪ He took me to such a vastly expensive restaurant and gave such a persuasive argument that I was fairly undone.
▪ We find that a persuasive argument, should we need any further persuasion beyond the plain wording of the Act.
▪ A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
▪ The preservationists, pinning their faith to moral superiority and persuasive argument, were beaten back every time.
▪ There is a persuasive argument that it was not.
▪ This could be a persuasive argument against agency.
▪ He concluded that there were several persuasive arguments in favour of subjecting demolition to control.
case
▪ But neither should it be formally abandoned until a more persuasive case could be made for doing so.
▪ But I understand there is also a persuasive case for the wave view.
evidence
▪ The growing burden of paperwork is persuasive evidence of bureaucratic indifference to the economic consequences of red. tape.
power
▪ I began to feel the charge of distance, its persuasive power.
▪ It stayed open only because Roy rallied both his persuasive powers and the clout of the Disney name to save it.
▪ Consider how easy it is to be misled by the persuasive power of apparent proof.
▪ The persuasive power of these latter voices is astonishing.
▪ The persuasive power of paternalism supplies the motive for this step to be taken.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ persuasive arguments.
▪ Barratt's argument was persuasive, but the managers still turned down his proposal.
▪ Diane can be very persuasive.
▪ He is a very persuasive speaker.
▪ He made a persuasive case for making the changes.
▪ Like most politicians, she can be very persuasive when she wants to be.
▪ We found no persuasive evidence of illegal activity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
▪ Abandon wait for taxi, hoist bags over shoulder and trudge to site where minivans transport officials and persuasive hangers-on to tournament.
▪ But investigators found the supporting accounts by Kennedy's friends and colleagues to be specific and persuasive, Pentagon officials said.
▪ Consider how easy it is to be misled by the persuasive power of apparent proof.
▪ In fact, the sound is so wonderfully persuasive that it supersedes the logic of the lyrics.
▪ So persuasive she could consider diverting into management consultancy.
▪ Their advertising was persuasive and their prices attractive, on the surface, so I fell for it like so many others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Persuasive

Persuasive \Per*sua"sive\, n. That which persuades; an inducement; an incitement; an exhortation. -- Per*sua"sive*ly, adv. -- Per*sua"sive*ness, n.

Persuasive

Persuasive \Per*sua"sive\, a. [Cf. F. persuasif.] Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence. ``Persuasive words.''
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
persuasive

1580s, from Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persuasivus, from Latin persuas-, past participle stem of persuadere "persuade, convince" (see persuasion). Related: Persuasively; persuasiveness. Replaced earlier persuasible in this sense (see persuadable).

Wiktionary
persuasive

a. able to persuade; convincing

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WordNet
persuasive

  1. adj. tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief; "persuasive eloquence"; "a most persuasive speaker" [ant: dissuasive]

  2. capable of convincing; "a persuasive argument"; "the evidence is persuasive but not conclusive"

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Usage examples of "persuasive".

He said he would guarantee me an income of ten thousand crowns per annum if I succeeded in making the king change his mind, and by way of encouragement he recalled to my mind the effect of my persuasive powers at Paris seven years before.

He was still cautious about this undertaking, but Tyndall had been persuasive, explaining how lucrative the pearling industry wasthough not without risks, for it was dangerous work with no guarantees.

Gandhi himself and many of his followers would claim that the techniques of Satyagraha are only a marshalling of the forces of sympathy, public opinion, and the like, and that they are persuasive rather than coercive.

THE FOURTH BOOK Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope So oft, and the persuasive rhetoric That sleeked his tongue, and won so much on Eve, So little here, nay lost.

This may be the most persuasive argument of all in Amman, Riyadh, and the Gulf capitals.

It was Claire Duhamel, a persuasive French woman who sold bonds for Banque de Lausanne et Geneve, known as BLG.

Knowing that the Hotel Metrolite did not specialize in offices, Diane was loath to comply, but Cardiff put reassurance into his jackish smile and added a few persuasive sentences.

That movie turned out to be effective persuasive writing, precisely because the characters were so believable.

Army and Air Force staff chiefs of various commands who formed a younger set on which he believed he could count after he had treated it to his persuasive oratory.

Hoping to further the turmoil, Hiddukel went to Chislev, goddess of woodlands and nature, and-in bis best persuasive manner-convinced her that doom was at hand.

The persuasive titillation of his mouth and tongue blunted her will to resist, and though she relished each blissful stroke that strummed across the gutstrings of her being, she strove desperately to gather the scattered fragments of her wits.

Third, they so miscited past precedents, and wrenched them so out of their historical context, as to make a mockery out of the rule of precedent and the requirement that if past precedent is to be overruled, the Court must provide honest and persuasive reasons for breaking with the past.

Thus I was relieved and grateful when feminists such as Jacqueline Rose and Jane Gallop, in the late seventies and early eighties, performed ingenious and persuasive readings of Lacan as critic of phallocracy, rather than advocate.

Eyes and fingers speak in its favor, visual evidence and palpableness do, too: this strikes an age with fundamentally plebian tastes as fascinating, persuasive, and convincing - after all, it follows instinctively the canon of truth of eternally popular sensualism.

Do you know -- and this is no persuasive lie -- even when hundreds of women were available for testing, Ty has never found two plausible queens at the same time!