Persuasive
adjective
Able to make you want to do or believe a certain thing.
His arguments were so persuasive, he convinced everyone to agree with his idea
Often appears as...
- persuasive speech
- persuasive argument
adjective
Being able to make others believe or do something through reasoning or the use of temptation.
The advertisements are very persuasive and make me want to buy the product
Often appears as...
- persuasive advertising
- persuasive strategy
Usage tips
Marketing
adjective
Able to make you want to do or believe a certain thing.
His arguments were so persuasive, he convinced everyone to agree with his idea
Often appears as...
- persuasive speech
- persuasive argument
adjective
Being able to make others believe or do something through reasoning or the use of temptation.
The advertisements are very persuasive and make me want to buy the product
Often appears as...
- persuasive advertising
- persuasive strategy
Usage tips
Marketing
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Charged
Words that stir emotions can make persuasive messages more impactful.
Her emotionally charged plea was so persuasive that the committee approved her proposal.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Persuasive' doesn't mean the argument is necessarily good, just effective.
Although the speech was persuasive, some found its message unethical.
Pro Tip 3/3Body Language Matters
Non-verbal cues like eye contact can make someone more persuasive.
His confident stance made his presentation even more persuasive.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Charged
Words that stir emotions can make persuasive messages more impactful.
Her emotionally charged plea was so persuasive that the committee approved her proposal.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Persuasive' doesn't mean the argument is necessarily good, just effective.
Although the speech was persuasive, some found its message unethical.
Pro Tip 3/3Body Language Matters
Non-verbal cues like eye contact can make someone more persuasive.
His confident stance made his presentation even more persuasive.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotionally Charged
Words that stir emotions can make persuasive messages more impactful.
Her emotionally charged plea was so persuasive that the committee approved her proposal.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Persuasive' doesn't mean the argument is necessarily good, just effective.
Although the speech was persuasive, some found its message unethical.
Pro Tip 3/3Body Language Matters
Non-verbal cues like eye contact can make someone more persuasive.
His confident stance made his presentation even more persuasive.
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How to have better...
might be helpful for understanding how it is that liberals and conservatives talk to one another and why they so often seem to talk past one another when they do. So we conducted a study where we recruited liberals to a study where they were supposed to write a persuasive essay
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How a handful of tech...
The second is we need new models and accountability systems so that as the world gets better and more and more persuasive over time -- because it's only going to get more persuasive -- that the people in those control rooms are accountable and transparent to what we want.
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Storytelling can be...
imposter she was someone who had pulled this off many times before and would go on to do it again by the time we catch up with her in Ireland she has already been convicted twice a fraud in Australia didn't serve either sentence because she's very persuasive and very
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How to use rhetoric to...
In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense? According to Aristotle, there are three persuasive ethos,
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The new political story...
Now, we are creatures of narrative, and a string of facts and figures, however important facts and figures are -- and, you know, I'm an empiricist, I believe in facts and figures -- but those facts and figures have no power to displace a persuasive story.
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The game that can give...
And these voices became so persistent and so persuasive that I started to legitimately fear for my life, which is the time that I said to myself after 34 days -- and I will never forget this moment -- I said, "I am either going to kill myself
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Why Do Cats Purr? PIPE Nora...
understanding this study is not to think of the pair as a sound but to think of it as a vibration a very real physical force that is traveling throughout the entire body and the evidence to back this theory up is very persuasive a
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Compelling Models for...
have to explain very clearly the facts and the signs and what are the impacts of each option and then be persuasive so everybody's on board of one single solution and we believe that marine reserves when they are fully protected
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Why do people join...
to financial assets and living arrangements. Cults also demand obedience to human leaders who tend to be highly persuasive people with authoritarian and narcissistic streaks motivated by money, sex, power, or all three.
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How statistics can be...
Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But there's a problem with that.
Video examples
How to have better...
might be helpful for understanding how it is that liberals and conservatives talk to one another and why they so often seem to talk past one another when they do. So we conducted a study where we recruited liberals to a study where they were supposed to write a persuasive essay
Video examples
How a handful of tech...
The second is we need new models and accountability systems so that as the world gets better and more and more persuasive over time -- because it's only going to get more persuasive -- that the people in those control rooms are accountable and transparent to what we want.
Video examples
Storytelling can be...
imposter she was someone who had pulled this off many times before and would go on to do it again by the time we catch up with her in Ireland she has already been convicted twice a fraud in Australia didn't serve either sentence because she's very persuasive and very
Video examples
How to use rhetoric to...
In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense? According to Aristotle, there are three persuasive ethos,
Video examples
The new political story...
Now, we are creatures of narrative, and a string of facts and figures, however important facts and figures are -- and, you know, I'm an empiricist, I believe in facts and figures -- but those facts and figures have no power to displace a persuasive story.
Video examples
The game that can give...
And these voices became so persistent and so persuasive that I started to legitimately fear for my life, which is the time that I said to myself after 34 days -- and I will never forget this moment -- I said, "I am either going to kill myself
Video examples
Why Do Cats Purr? PIPE Nora...
understanding this study is not to think of the pair as a sound but to think of it as a vibration a very real physical force that is traveling throughout the entire body and the evidence to back this theory up is very persuasive a
Video examples
Compelling Models for...
have to explain very clearly the facts and the signs and what are the impacts of each option and then be persuasive so everybody's on board of one single solution and we believe that marine reserves when they are fully protected
Video examples
Why do people join...
to financial assets and living arrangements. Cults also demand obedience to human leaders who tend to be highly persuasive people with authoritarian and narcissistic streaks motivated by money, sex, power, or all three.
Video examples
How statistics can be...
Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But there's a problem with that.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Barry Eisler
American Novelist
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
We should continue to mobilise against the destruction of the world's great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument we can make is to show we mean it, by restoring our own lost wonders.
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Donald Rumsfeld
American Politician
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
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Christopher Hitchens
American Author
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
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Irvin Mayfield
American Musician
A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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Ken Liu
American Writer
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
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Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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Edward R. Murrow
American Journalist
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
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Amanda de Cadenet
English Photographer
Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
Quote examples
Barry Eisler
American Novelist
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
Quote examples
George Monbiot
British Writer
We should continue to mobilise against the destruction of the world's great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument we can make is to show we mean it, by restoring our own lost wonders.
Quote examples
Donald Rumsfeld
American Politician
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
Quote examples
Christopher Hitchens
American Author
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
Quote examples
Irvin Mayfield
American Musician
A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
Quote examples
John F. Kennedy
American President
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Quote examples
Ken Liu
American Writer
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
Quote examples
Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Quote examples
Edward R. Murrow
American Journalist
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Quote examples
Amanda de Cadenet
English Photographer
Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
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