persuasive

adj, noun — 2 senses

persuasive

adj

/pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪsɪv/

Etymology From Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persuāsīvus, from Latin past participle stem of persuādēre + -īvus.

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:

Derived terms: counterpersuasive, nonpersuasive, persuasively, persuasiveness, persuasive precedent, prepersuasive, purrsuasive, ultrapersuasive

persuasive

noun

Etymology From Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persuāsīvus, from Latin past participle stem of persuādēre + -īvus.

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:

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