Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the power to persuade or convince; persuasive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having power to persuade; persuasive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having power to
persuade ;persuasive .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This means that no suasive grounds in reason exist that would also make it plausible.
Atheism 2009
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The virtue of AOA as opposed to OA is that AOA is sufficiently suasive to ensure economic commitment and participation.
Almost Open Access 2008
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About the best one can say for it is that it depends on substantial and moot principles of Aristotelian metaphysics, and, in any case, as a suasive argument, begs the question.
Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008
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The formal availability of civil liberties and the existence of suasive entities like a representative assembly, competing political parties, mass organizations, mass media and the like tend to obscure the class character of the state.
Naxalite Maoist India Abhay N 2007
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In coordination with or after failure of suasive means to deceive and calm down the aggrieved toiling masses, the exploiting classes can escalate the show and use of brute force from the level of private army and civilian armed gangs through the local police to any of the major services of the Armed Forces of the
Naxalite Maoist India Abhay N 2007
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In regard to speech a man may study all that which may make him suasive, but if he go beyond that he will trench on those histrionic efforts, which he will know to be wrong because he will be ashamed to acknowledge them.
The Duke's Children 2004
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“My dear,” said Aunt Margaret, the next morning, speaking in her most suasive tone, “your Cousin Tom is to be allowed to call here.”
Ayala's Angel 2004
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Heard suasive pleas, and Zeus through them resolved.
The Suppliants 2002
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Heard suasive pleas, and Zeus through them resolved.
The Suppliants 2002
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She opened her mouth to tell him so, and then a queer but utterly per-suasive sensation enfolded her: they were being watched.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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