Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Urgently requiring attention: a host of compelling socioeconomic problems.
- adj. Drivingly forceful: compelling ambition and egotism.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. driving or forcing
- adj. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument
Examples
“With a shallow core gameplay experience, the developers understand that gamers need something else to keep them drawn in and while these are small additions, they make the title compelling, making you want to come back for another mission.”
“Nice job 0_0 *Salivating* Now THAT is what I call compelling!”
“CANDIOTTI: In response, the prosecutor has said that they have what they call compelling evidence and tried to set a high bond of $500,000, saying that this man is a flight risk and is willing to do anything.”
“Skinner's attorneys have in the past presented what they call compelling evidence pointing to another man who may have committed the murders.”
“Unfortunately, there's a huge gap between what we identify as compelling and what actually goes up on our pages.”
“Whether Heddle, you, and me find Coyne's philosophical arguments compelling is immaterial.”
“What makes the “wisdom of crowds” (crowdsourcing) so compelling is the aggregation of various subjective views on a product or service.”
WSJ: wine-rating system is badly flawed | Dr Vino's wine blog
“What makes the WSJ column so compelling is that Dottie and John are solid journalists who for the most part avoid wine speak.”
American Chardonnay: “simple, sweet, alcoholic and false” | Dr Vino's wine blog
“They had better not succeed in compelling anyone to work the proposed shift to midnight.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘compelling’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Dominant/Submissive
abusive, adamant, autocratic, bossy, bullheaded, bumptious, certain, cock-a-hoop, cocksure, cocky, commanding, compelling and 189 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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The Spoken Word
Words relating to Conversation
adage, adamant, brusque, candor, cavil, compelling, didactic, disparage, emphatic, facetious, frank, fulminate and 7 more...
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This intriguing novel .... is a taut,...
Crimes committed by book reviewers. Terms here are culled shamelessly from a recent New York Times blog post, and the comments that it generated.
Seven Deadly Sins
See a...poignant, compelling, taut, lyrical, spare, eschew, limn, craft, nuanced, contrived, majestic, subtle and 52 more...
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List 015
compelling, clandestine, capacious, captivate, amicable, emulate, fetter, frugal, hackneyed, hiatus, inane, jubilant and 13 more...
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writing first chapter
revolve, vital, necessity, depict, archery, indegenous, native, lacrosse, similarly, recess, composition, indicator and 91 more...
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Vocabulary Words 2.
cow tow, evident, harassed, egalitarians, anomolous, tenuous, fondly, foment, construe, ingratiate, parlance, spectacular and 96 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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africasunsets's list
serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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words i love
fuss, rhythm, obfuscate, sumptuous, decadence, ethereal, peach, stingy, muscle, wrapper, corpus, dastardly deed and 90 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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