Usually means: Effective in influencing thoughts, actions.
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  1. persuasive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. persuasive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. persuasive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. persuasive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. persuasive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Persuasive, persuasive: Wordnik
  7. persuasive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. persuasive: Wiktionary
  9. persuasive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. persuasive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. persuasive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Persuasive, persuasive: Dictionary.com
  13. persuasive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Persuasive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Persuasive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. persuasive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. persuasive: Rhymezone
  18. Persuasive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. persuasive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. persuasive: Free Dictionary
  21. persuasive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. persuasive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. persuasive: Legal dictionary

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  1. persuasive: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Able to persuade; convincing.
▸ noun:  That which persuades; incitement.

Similar:
convincing, compelling, ingratiatory, coaxing, smooth-tongued, glib, glib-tongued, persuadable, persuasory, persuasible, more...

Opposite:
unconvincing, ineffective, weak, implausible, unimpressive

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logical, emotional, ethos, pathos, logos, more...

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persuasive communication, persuasive authority, persuasive essay, Persuasive definition, persuasive definitions, more...

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Similar:
convincing, compelling, ingratiatory, coaxing, smooth-tongued, glib, glib-tongued, persuadable, persuasory, persuasible, more...

Opposite:
unconvincing, ineffective, weak, implausible, unimpressive

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logical, emotional, ethos, pathos, logos, more...

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