Word Meanings - CONVICTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Convincing. The best and most convictive argument. Glanwill. -- Con*vict"ive*ly, adv. -- Con*vict"ive*ness, n.
Related words: (words related to CONVICTIVE)
- CONVINCIBLE
1. Capable of being convinced or won over. 2. Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. Sir T. Browne. - CONVINCER
One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof. - CONVICTIVE
Convincing. The best and most convictive argument. Glanwill. -- Con*vict"ive*ly, adv. -- Con*vict"ive*ness, n. - ARGUMENTIZE
To argue or discuss. Wood. - ARGUMENTATIVE
1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator. - ARGUMENTAL
Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative. - ARGUMENTABLE
Admitting of argument. Chalmers. - ARGUMENT
The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction. (more info) 1. Proof; evidence. There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it - CONVINCINGNESS
The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing. - CONVINCE
1. To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master. His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak. 2. To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy - CONVINCEMENT
Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction. The fear of a convincement. Milton. - CONVINCINGLY
in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent. - ARGUMENTATION
1. The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be - INCONVINCIBLY
In a manner not admitting of being convinced. - REARGUMENT
An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court. - INCONVINCIBLE
Not convincible; incapable of being convinced. None are so inconvincible as your half-witted people. Gov. of the Tongue.