PERSUADING Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

persuading 1 of 2

noun

as in convincing

the act of reasoning or pleading with someone to accept a belief or course of action no amount of persuading could make her change her mind

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persuading

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verb

present participle of persuade

as in satisfying

to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request she persuaded us that she can indeed communicate with the dead he persuaded his teachers to grant an extension

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Recent Examples of persuading

Noun

Technical knowledge can be taught and examined but the skills Freebairn values most, such as influencing, persuading, and negotiating, cannot. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 In reality, Blanding says, her sister didn’t need much persuading. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026 Goode needed no persuading about the beauty of animals like New Caledonian geckos, African bush vipers, Caribbean rock iguanas, and similar Cyclura. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026 Bisegna, who is 17 and more soft-spoken, took a little persuading. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 13 July 2026 The 70-year-old was explaining how the revival came about through years-long persuading of Emmy-winning creator and executive producer Linwood Boomer. — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026 Each distortion is what happens when the body does the persuading, and the ideas are just the wardrobe. — Alexis Coe, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026 But Putin cannot have needed much persuading to agree to a formal invitation to the US to have the bilateral meeting his team have long held out as the way towards peace in Ukraine. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025 In the framework of conversational intelligence, most workplace communication falls into Level 1 (telling) or Level 2 (persuading). — Susan Curtin, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025

Verb

The piece suggests the ad was aimed less at persuading undecided voters than at energizing the Republican base. — Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 The trick involves persuading electrons to abandon their individuality and form quantum partnerships known as Cooper pairs. — Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026 His was a central voice in persuading the fair to open in Miami Beach in the first place. — Brian Boucher For Artnet News, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2026 Janabi said one of the biggest challenges has been persuading those who are infected to seek medical assistance, adding that some deaths occur in the community outside of health centers. — Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026 Both require making the right choices under pressure and persuading others to believe in them. — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 Risk of staying home For Bass and Raman, the challenge may be less about persuading Pratt’s supporters to switch sides than giving them a reason to vote at all. — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026 The company’s reputation was built partly on persuading audiences to take chances on inexpensive, surprising horror outings — often with little more than a compelling premise to go on. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026 Macron's controversial pension reforms illustrate the difficulty of persuading French voters to accept reductions in longstanding public benefits, Feigenbaum argued. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for persuading

Noun

So Nvidia and some of its largest customers proposed a new design, skipping several conversions and distributing power inside the building not through typical AC but through DC, the native form the chips want anyway.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Angels Stadium in Anaheim's 1998 conversion cut 19,076 seats, while Miami's Hard Rock Stadium cut 10,692 in its remodel in 2015–16.

— Jonah Kaplan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of conversion

Verb

In Knox, Clark has spent much of this school year convincing those families to complete their meal applications.

— Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026
The two have been tasked with convincing Prince William to reconcile with Harry, which won’t be easy.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of convincing

Verb

On TikTok, creators crow about Le Pliage’s visually and physically satisfying design, produced in workshops across Western France.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
And as always, sites and zones on Mars for the choppers means satisfying engineering constraints imposed by the project and spacecraft design.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of satisfying

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