persuasive

comparative more persuasive · superlative most persuasive

1. Able to persuade; convincing.

   But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.

   2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55

   Synonyms: forcible, cogent, convincing, flexanimous, inducing, inducive, inductious, persuadable · Antonyms: dehortative, dehortatory, dehorting, dissuading, dissuasive, retractive, unconvincing, unpersuasive

plural persuasives

1. That which persuades; incitement.

   He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […]

   1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837, volume 1, page 68