Meanings
adjectivecompellent (comparative more compellent, superlative most compellent)
comparative more compellent · superlative most compellent
- That compels.
Acquiescence to a compellent threat invites another demand […]
1985, Thomas C. Schelling, Choice and Consequence, page 321
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