Meanings
comparative more persuadable · superlative most persuadable
- Able to be persuaded (convinced).
Near-synonyms: amenable; movable; reachable
1 more example
‘Once Lady Anna is here, the bridegroom will be mellow, persuadable, and you will press your advantage.’
2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 696Synonyms: persuasible, convinceable, amenable, movable, reachable · Antonyms: impersuadable, impersuasible, unpersuadable, unconvinceable, immovable, unmovable, unyielding
plural persuadables
- plural normallySomeone or something that can be persuaded.
The survey vindicated the politician's assertion that there were few persuadables among his constituents.
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So when you're thinking about how does this affect the persuadables, which may be a small percentage of people out there, I think the most effective elements that we saw in this first hour for the persuadables were: William Barr and Ivanka Trump and that video of what really did happen in that attack on the Capitol, the viciousness of it, the violence of it, the planning of it, the relentlessness of it, and that, that is what Donald Trump refused to stop.
2022 June 9, Lawrence O'Donnell, 0:57 from the start, in 'He Didn't Make A Single Phone Call': Evidence Paints Picture Of Trump Inaction On Jan. 6, MSNBC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveAble to be persuaded (convinced).
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebeing susceptible to persuasion
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan persuasible
- persuasibleable to be persuaded
Finnish vakuuttuva, taipuvainen
- vakuuttuvaable to be persuaded
- taipuvainenable to be persuaded
Italian persuasibile, persuadibile
- persuasibileable to be persuaded
- persuadibileable to be persuaded
Polish przekonywalny
- przekonywalnyable to be persuaded
Portuguese persuadível, persuasível
- persuadívelable to be persuaded
- persuasívelable to be persuaded
Spanish persuasor, persuasible
- persuasorable to be persuaded
- persuasibleable to be persuaded
Cite this entry
persuadable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/persuadable
“persuadable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/persuadable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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