Word Meanings - PERSUADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. We will persuade him,

Additional info about word: PERSUADE

1. To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. We will persuade him, be it possible. Shak. 2. To try to influence. Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you. 2 Kings xviii. 32. 3. To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe. Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you. Heb. vi. 9. 4. To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- To convince; induce; prevail on; win over; allure; entice. See Convince.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERSUADE)

• Argue
• Discuss
• debate
• prove
• question
• evidence
• establish
• imply
• sift
• dispute
• persuade
• controvert
• contend
• demonstrate
• reason
• Bend
• Curve
• deviate
• incline
• tend
• swerve
• diverge
• mold
• influence
• bias
• dispose
• direct
• lower
• subordinate to
• lean
• deflect
• bow
• condescend
• yield
• stoop
• submit
• Coax
• Wheedle
• fawn
• flatter
• call
• ole
• overcome
• seduce
• allure
• circumvent
• Convince
• Persuade
• enlighten
• inoculate
• indoctrinate
• Induce Produce
• cause
• prompt
• instigate
• impel
• actuate
• urge
• move
• prevail on

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PERSUADE)

• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate
• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• concede
• endorse
• affirm
• grant
• allow

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