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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
persuasive/pəˈsweɪsɪv/

▶adjective

1 good at persuading someone to do or believe something.

2 providing sound reasoning or argument.

– derivatives
persuasively adverb,
persuasiveness noun.

'persuasive' also found in these Oxford entries:

blarney - elevator pitch - eloquence - rhetoric - silver tongue - soft power - soft sell - soft soap - unpersuasive - way

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