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compellingadjective having the power to persuademade a compelling argument against military intervention cogent, conclusive, convincing, decisive, effective, forceful, persuasive, satisfying, strong, telling authoritative, definitivesound, valid, well-foundedimportant, significant, weightymaterial, pertinent, relevant inconclusive, indecisive, ineffective, uncompelling, unconvincing, unpersuasive groundless, invalid, shaky, unfounded, unsoundinconsequential, insignificant, unimportantimmaterial, irrelevantfeeble, weak needing immediate attentionno compelling need to raise taxes at this time acute, burning, clamant, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overridingcrucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death(also life-or-death), serious, severe, vitaldangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable noncritical, nonurgent incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportantnonthreatening, safe, stable compellingverbpresent participle of compelto cause (a person) to give in to pressurepublic opinion compelled her to fire her scandal-plagued aide blackjacking, coercing, constraining, dragooning, driving, forcing, impelling, impressing, making, muscling, obligating, obliging, pressing, pressuring, sandbagging browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cowing, hectoring, intimidatingblackmailing, high-pressuring, menacing, shaming, terrorizing, threateningdraggingbadgering, harassing, hounding twisting one's arm allowing, letting, permittingarguing, convincing, inducing, moving, persuading, prevailing (on or upon), satisfying, talking (into), winning (over) in 1606 |