英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪsɪv/

形容詞

persuasive (comparative more persuasive, superlative most persuasive)

1. Able to persuade; convincing.

   Synonyms: convincing, (廃れた用法) flexanimous, inducing, (まれに) inducive, (廃れた用法, まれに) inductious, (廃れた用法, まれに) persuadable, persuading, (now まれに) persuasible, (廃れた用法) pleaful, psychagogic, (まれに) psychagogical, (まれに) suading, (廃れた用法, まれに) suasorian, (now まれに) suasory

   Antonyms: dehortative, dehortatory, dehorting, dissuading, dissuasive, (廃れた用法) retractive, unconvincing, unpersuasive

   • 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55:

     But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.

派生語

名詞

persuasive (複数形 persuasives)

1. That which persuades; incitement.
   • 1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837, volume 1, page 68:

     He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […]

Further reading

• persuasive at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “persuasive”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.