| Main Entry: | persuasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, influential |
Synonyms: |
actuating, alluring, cogent, compelling, conclusive, convictive, convincing, credible, effectual, efficacious, efficient, eloquent, energetic, enticing, forceful, forcible, impelling, impressive, inducing, inspiring, inveigling, logical, luring, moving, plausible, pointed, potent, powerful, seductive, slick, smooth, sound, stimulating, stringent, strong, swaying, telling, touching, unctuous, valid, weighty, wheedling, winning |
Antonyms: |
dampening, discouraging, disheartening, dissuasive, ineffective, ineffectual |
| Main Entry: | believable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trustworthy |
Synonyms: |
aboveboard, acceptable, authentic, colorable, conceivable, convincing, credential, credible, creditable, fiduciary, honest-to-God, imaginable, impressive, likely, persuasive, plausible, possible, presumable, presumptive, probable, rational, reasonable, reliable, satisfying, straight, supposable, tenable, tried, trusty, unquestionable, up front |
Antonyms: |
inconceivable, incredible, unbelieveable, unconvincing, unreliable, unthinkable |
| Main Entry: | cogent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective |
Synonyms: |
apposite, apt, compelling, conclusive, consequential, convictive, convincing, fitting, forceful, forcible, inducing, influential, irresistible, justified, meaningful, momentous, persuasive, pertinent, potent, powerful, puissant, relevant, satisfactory, satisfying, significant, solid, sound, strong, suasive, telling, urgent, valid, weighty, well-grounded |
Antonyms: |
impotent, ineffective, invalid, weak |
| Main Entry: | dialectic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | logical, rational |
Synonyms: |
analytic, argumentative, controversial, dialectical, persuasive, polemical, rationalistic |
| Notes: | a dialect is geographical or social variety of speech, whereas dialectic is a form of reasoning or argumentation that focuses on resolving contradictions |
Antonyms: |
illogical, irrational |
| Main Entry: | disarming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charming |
Synonyms: |
bewitching, convincing, deferential, ingratiating, ingratiatory, insinuating, insinuative, inveigling, irresistible, likable, persuasive, saccharine, seductive, silken, silky, winning |
Antonyms: |
despicable, disgusting |
| Main Entry: | eloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, facund, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, revealing, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, well-expressed |
Antonyms: |
dull, inarticulate |
| Main Entry: | fluent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | articulate |
Synonyms: |
chatty, cogent, copious, cursive, declamatory, disputatious, easy, effortless, effusive, eloquent, facile, flowing, garrulous, glib, liquid, loquacious, mellifluent, mellifluous, natural, persuasive, prompt, quick, ready, running, silver-tongued, smooth, smooth-spoken, talkative, verbose, vocal, voluble, well-versed, wordy |
Antonyms: |
effortful, hesitant, inarticulate, unfluent, unprepared |
| Main Entry: | forceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, powerful |
Synonyms: |
ball of fire, bullish, cogent, coming on strong, commanding, compelling, constraining, convincing, dominant, dynamic, electric, elemental, energetic, forcible, gutsy, mighty, persuasive, pithy, potent, powerhouse, puissant, punch, punchy, steamroller, stringent, strong, take-charge, take-over, telling, titanic, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, weighty |
Antonyms: |
feeble, impotent, ineffective, meek, unforceful, weak |
| Main Entry: | forcible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerful, aggressive |
Synonyms: |
active, armed, assertive, coercive, cogent, compelling, compulsory, drastic, effective, efficient, energetic, forceful, impressive, intense, mighty, militant, persuasive, potent, puissant, strong, telling, valid, vehement, vigorous, violent, weighty |
Antonyms: |
nonaggressive, weak |
| Main Entry: | influential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, powerful |
Synonyms: |
affecting, authoritative, big-gun, big-wheel, controlling, dominant, efficacious, famous, forcible, governing, guiding, hot-dog, important, impressive, inspiring, instrumental, leading, major-league, meaningful, momentous, moving, name, persuasive, potent, prominent, significant, strong, substantial, telling, touching, weighty |
Antonyms: |
ineffective, ineffectual, unimportant, uninfluential, unmoving, weak |