# convincing

Pronunciation: US say "kuhn-VIN-sing" /kənˈvɪnsɪŋ/; UK

## Adjective

1. Effective as proof or evidence; strong enough to remove reasonable doubt about a claim.
   - Simple: Good enough to make you believe that something is true.
   - _The prosecution presented convincing evidence linking the suspect to the crime scene._
   - _Her demonstration was convincing enough to win over even the most doubtful engineers._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of convince. — present participle and gerund of convince
   - Simple: Present participle of convince. Use it after 'is' or 'was' to show that the action is happening.
   - _The senator was convincing undecided colleagues right up until the vote began._
   - _Convincing skeptical investors took the founders nearly a year._

## Noun

3. The process of bringing someone to believe something or to agree to a course of action.
   - Simple: The work of getting someone to believe something or agree to something.
   - _The merger required months of patient convincing before the board finally approved it._
   - _Voters in the district will take some convincing after years of broken promises._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/convincing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).