unpersuasive
- adjective
- /ʌnˈpɜr.sweɪ.sɪv/
- The evidence presented in the trial was unpersuasive, failing to convince the jury.
- find this argument unpersuasive
- find them unpersuasive
Yeah, obviously it's something, but I find it unpersuasive.
- Yeah, obviously it's something, but I find it unpersuasive.
- It's made them cruel and mean and petty and, and and worst of all, unpersuasive.
Examples
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I find this argument unpersuasive.
Academic text (1995) -
Mr. Libman's legal arguments are unpersuasive, to say the least.
Blog text (11) -
No wonder we are so unpersuasive and have to sell harder and harder.
Academic text (2004) -
The argument of free will was unpersuasive.
Academic text (2003) -
But there remains a still significant number who find these arguments unpersuasive.
Academic text (2005) -
The first distinction seemed unpersuasive because, as Kelly pointed out, sleep may be as critical to good health as food.
Academic text (1992) -
So, if that's the beginning of your analysis, it makes the rest of it unpersuasive propaganda as well.
Blog text (23) -
There are a lot of fallacies in your long but unpersuasive epistle.
Blog text (26) -
Henry David Thoreau made many pronouncements that I find unpersuasive.
Academic text (2001) -
The Republican theory thus explains why the current arguments for setting aside DOL's Fiduciary Rule are unpersuasive.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
Failing to make someone believe what you say
Does not interest or convince people
Not able to change other people's ideas or actions
Antonyms
How Persuasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
unpersuasive = persuasive (transparent) = un + persuade + ive
Formed by straightforward negation of 'persuasive' (persuade + -ive); learners familiar with 'persuade' and '-ive' can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Unpersuasive combines the prefix un- meaning 'not' with persuasive, from persuade meaning 'to convince'. So unpersuasive describes something that fails to convince someone and is therefore 'not convincing'.