Word Meanings - PERSUASIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence. "Persuasive words." Milton.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERSUASIVE)
- Cogent
- Forcible
- powerful
- potent
- strong
- persuasive
- influential
- Influential
- Potent
- forcible
- controlling
- guiding
- considerable
- Rhetorical
- Declamatory
- oratorical
- lively
- animated
- spirited
Related words: (words related to PERSUASIVE)
- LIVELY
1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier - SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - GUIDAGE
1. The reward given to a guide for services. Ainsworth. 2. Guidance; lead; direction. Southey. - ANIMATING
Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv. - GUIDABLE
Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled. Sprat. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - STRONGYLOID
Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry - SPIRITISM
Spiritualsm. - CONTROLLABILITY
Capability of being controlled; controllableness. - SPIRIT
Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser. - SPIRITUALISTIC
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. - GUIDEBOOK
A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc. - POTENTIAL
1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely - STRONGYLID
Strongyloid. - INFLUENTIAL
Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc. A very influential Gascon prefix. Earle. - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - EQUIPOTENTIAL
Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential. - PINGUIDINOUS
Containing fat; fatty. - OMNIPOTENT
1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power - INANIMATION
Want of animation; lifeless; dullness. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - PINGUID
Fat; unctuous; greasy. "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer. - DISSPIRIT
See DISPIRIT - ENFORCIBLE
That may be enforced. - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;