unpersuasive

Examples

• All

• 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

U

unconvincing

vsunpersuasive

11 5.1

Failing to make someone believe what you say

covers failure to make people believe or to make them act

U

uncompelling

vsunpersuasive

6.3

Does not interest or convince people

aims to change belief or action rather than just draw attention

U

uninfluential

vsunpersuasive

6.3

Not able to change other people's ideas or actions

focuses on changing belief or action rather than general power

Antonyms

P

persuasive

99 3.9

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

How Persuasive

compelling

298 5.1

convincing

195 3.4

persuasive

99 3.9

ineffective

90 3.4

unpersuasive

2 6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology