Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being convinced.
- Capable of being disproved or refuted.
- Capable or worthy of being convicted; culpable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being convinced or won over.
- adjective obsolete Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
convinced or won over. - adjective obsolete Capable of being and
disproved byargument ;refutable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being susceptible to persuasion
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think there are many people in the middle who are convincible.
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Now, to determine the day and year of this inevitable time, is not only convincible and statute madness, but also manifest impiety.
Religio Medici 2007
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The complexity is too subtle, too varied; the values are changing utterly with each lesion of vitality; it has begun to appear that we can learn nothing from the past with which to face the future — so we cease to be impulsive, convincible men, interested in what is ethically true by fine margins, we substitute rules of conduct for ideas of integrity, we value safety above romance, we become, quite unconsciously, pragmatic.
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Would somebody who was convincible like my wife find here a faith she couldn't find in human beings?
The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955
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Now to determine the day and year of this inevitable time, is not onely convincible [110] and statute-madness, [111] but also manifest impiety.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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The complexity is too subtle, too varied; the values are changing utterly with each lesion of vitality; it has begun to appear that we can learn nothing from the past with which to face the future -- so we cease to be impulsive, convincible men, interested in what is ethically true by fine margins, we substitute rules of conduct for ideas of integrity, we value safety above romance, we become, quite unconsciously, pragmatic.
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Let them deliberately view the subject of slavery in all its aspects and bearings, and if they are possessed of honest hearts and convincible minds, they
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The Global Public directly cares for its own day to day interests and no longer convincible by Media-presented articulated but abstract metal images of understanding of what, for example, actually is meant by "Countries say"?
News - latimes.com 2011
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Skeptical Science is an excellent, well-organized site to send convincible people for a shredding of the standard, long-debunked denier talking points.
Climate Progress Joe 2010
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Skeptical Science is an excellent, well-organized site to send convincible people for a shredding of the standard, long-debunked denier talking points.
Climate Progress Joe 2010
vanishedone commented on the word convincible
Discussion on convinceable; WeirdNet #2 seems to be mixing this up with susceptible.
February 17, 2009
bilby commented on the word convincible
Spellnig error?
February 17, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word convincible
Corrected; thanks.
February 17, 2009