assuasiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

assuasive (comparative more assuasive, superlative most assuasive)

1. Mild, soothing.
   • 1713, Alexander Pope, Ode for Musick, London: Bernard Lintott, pp. 2-3,^[1]

     If in the Breast tumultuous Joys arise,

     Musick her soft, assuasive Voice applies;

     Or when the Soul is press’d with Cares

     Exalts her in enlivening Airs.

   • 1854, Charles Dickens, “Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 282,”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], OCLC 4389957:

     “ […] Perhaps,” said Bounderby, starting with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, “you know where your daughter is at the present time?”