Meanings
present singular third person dissuades · participle present dissuading · participle past dissuaded · past dissuaded
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo convince not to try or do.
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Origin
- Latindissuādeō“to urge differently”, “to advise against”, “to dissuade”
- Middle Frenchdissuader
- Englishdissuade
From Middle French dissuader, from Latin dissuādeō (“to urge differently”, “to advise against”, “to dissuade”), from dis- (“away from”, “asunder”) + suādeō (“to recommend”, “to advise”, “to urge”).
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Bulgarian разубеждавам, разубедя
- разубеждавам (razubeždavam)convince not to try or do
- разубедя (razubedja)convince not to try or do
Catalan dissuadir
- dissuadirconvince not to try or do
Chinese Mandarin 勸阻 /劝阻
- 勸阻 /劝阻 (quànzǔ)convince not to try or do
Czech rozmluvit
- rozmluvitconvince not to try or do
Danish tale fra, fraråde
- tale fraconvince not to try or do
- frarådeconvince not to try or do
Dutch uit het hoofd praten, afbrengen van
- uit het hoofd pratenconvince not to try or do
- afbrengen vanconvince not to try or do
- afradenconvince not to try or do
Esperanto deadmoni
- deadmoniconvince not to try or do
Finnish saada luopumaan, kääntää jonkun pää
- saada luopumaanconvince not to try or do
- kääntää jonkun pääconvince not to try or do
- saada toisiin ajatuksiinconvince not to try or do
French dissuader
- dissuaderconvince not to try or do
German abbringen, abraten
- abbringenconvince not to try or do
- abratenconvince not to try or do
Greek αποτρέπω
- αποτρέπω (apotrépo)convince not to try or do
Hungarian lebeszél
- lebeszélconvince not to try or do
Italian dissuadere
- dissuadereconvince not to try or do
Japanese 思いとどまらせる, 諫める
- 思いとどまらせる (omoitodomaraseru)convince not to try or do
- 諫める (isameru)convince not to try or do
Latin dissuādeo, dehortor
- dissuādeoconvince not to try or do
- dehortorconvince not to try or do
Māori whakapakepake, whakapeau
- whakapakepakeconvince not to try or do
- whakapeauconvince not to try or do
Norwegian Bokmål avskrekke
- avskrekkeconvince not to try or do
Polish odwieść, odwodzić
- odwieśćconvince not to try or do
- odwodzićconvince not to try or do
- odradzićconvince not to try or do
- odradzaćconvince not to try or do
Portuguese dissuadir
- dissuadirconvince not to try or do
Russian разубежда́ть, разубеди́ть
- разубежда́ть (razubeždátʹ)convince not to try or do
- разубеди́ть (razubedítʹ)convince not to try or do
Spanish disuadir
- disuadirconvince not to try or do
Swedish avskräcka, avråda
- avskräckaconvince not to try or do
- avrådaconvince not to try or do
Vietnamese ngăn cản
- ngăn cảnconvince not to try or do
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Cite this entry
dissuade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dissuade
“dissuade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dissuade. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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