Usually means: Discouraging or deterring from action.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word dissuasive:

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  1. dissuasive: Merriam-Webster
  2. dissuasive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissuasive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dissuasive: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dissuasive, dissuasive: Wordnik
  6. dissuasive: Wiktionary
  7. dissuasive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. dissuasive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Dissuasive, dissuasive: Dictionary.com
  10. Dissuasive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dissuasive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. dissuasive: Rhymezone
  13. Dissuasive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. dissuasive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. dissuasive: FreeDictionary.org
  16. dissuasive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. dissuasive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dissuasive: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dissuasive)

▸ adjective:  Tending to dissuade, or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory.
▸ noun:  That which dissuades; a disincentive.

Similar:
discouraging, warning, cautionary, monitory, admonitory, exemplary, dehortatory, dehortative, dissuasory, dissuasionary, more...

Opposite:
persuasive, encouraging, convincing

Types:
off-putting, unappealing, unattractive, repellent, more...

Adjectives:
powerful, earnest, strong, more, general, serious, long, gentle, terrible, best, sufficient



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Similar:
discouraging, warning, cautionary, monitory, admonitory, exemplary, dehortatory, dehortative, dissuasory, dissuasionary, more...

Opposite:
persuasive, encouraging, convincing

Types:
off-putting, unappealing, unattractive, repellent, more...

Adjectives:
powerful, earnest, strong, more, general, serious, long, gentle, terrible, best, sufficient



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