convincing

Examples

• All

• Yeah, I admit you made a convincing case.

  Late Night with the Devil (2024)

• All in all, he presents a positive and convincing appearance, and I say so in my review.

  Fiction book (1992)

• And he was, he was very convincing when he wanted to be.

• Well, she seemed pretty convincing to me.

  Werewolf Cabal (2022)

• That sounds very convincing, I must say.

  Night Must Fall (1937)

• If current research is not convincing enough, then ask the staff another series of questions.

  Academic text (1991)

• What would be a convincing argument for that?

  Lex Fridman

• His arguments were strong and convincing, but he never pressed me to admit that he was right.

  Fiction book (1993)

• There were convincing arguments for the invasion, and the sheer simplicity of the most convincing was breathtaking.

  Academic text (2008)

• Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein provides some convincing examples in his 1953 book Philosophical Investigations.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

C

credible

vsconvincing

267 4.2

Something that seems true and that people can trust

is an active ability to make people believe rather than seem true

P

persuasive

vsconvincing

99 3.9

Able to make someone believe or do something by giving clear reasons

is the general capacity to cause belief without fixed method

S

suasive

vsconvincing

• Formal

9.3

Able to make others agree with you or do something

is a general capacity to make people accept an idea

Antonyms

I

implausible

26 7.0

Not likely to be true or hard to believe

U

unconvincing

11 5.1

Failing to make someone believe what you say

Idioms

A

as convincing as weak tea

• Informal

8.4

Very weak and hard to believe

How Persuasive

compelling

298 5.1

convincing

195 3.4

plausible

129 7.2

unconvincing

11 5.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology