CONVINCING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convincing mean? 

• CONVINCING (adjective)
  The adjective CONVINCING has 1 sense:

1. causing one to believe the truth of something

  Familiarity information: CONVINCING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVINCING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing one to believe the truth of something

Context example:

a convincing manner

Similar:

credible (appearing to merit belief or acceptance)

disenchanting; disillusioning (freeing from illusion or false belief)

Also:

persuasive (intended or having the power to induce action or belief)

Antonym:

unconvincing (not convincing)

 Context examples 

A hint of stiff-leggedness on their part, a lifted lip or a bristle of hair, and he would be upon them, merciless and cruel, swiftly convincing them of the error of their way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And Amy, who was very dignified in public and very fond in private, gave convincing proofs of the truth of her words.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was ingenious, but not convincing.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At first he could not comprehend, and then, when he did, he added convincing evidence.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The police believe that they have evidence in their possession which supplies a very convincing motive for the crime, and altogether it cannot be doubted that sensational developments will follow.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star HD 163296.

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)

The Transcontinental made a dignified and convincing statement of how it first discovered Martin Eden, which was warmly disputed by The Hornet, with the exhibit of "The Peri and the Pearl."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I cannot make speeches, Emma:” he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

348 years after the initial event was observed, the remains of this explosive stellar merger have led to the clear and convincing signature of a radioactive version of aluminum, known as aluminium-26.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

I could not have resisted its entreaty, if the assurance that it gave me had been less convincing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)