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UNCONVINCED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unconvinced mean?
• UNCONVINCED (adjective)
The adjective UNCONVINCED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNCONVINCED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking conviction
Context example:
I remain unconvinced
Similar:
dubious (not convinced)
Antonym:
convinced (having a strong belief or conviction)
Context examples
Indeed you injure me if you suppose me unconvinced.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If you are still capable of self-improvement, of which I am frankly unconvinced, you will surely return to London a wiser man.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He ignored Mr. Morse, who said: I am unconvinced. All socialists are Jesuits.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Catherine was still unconvinced; but glad that Anne should have the friendship of an Emily and a Sophia to console her, she bade her adieu without much uneasiness, and returned home, pleased that the party had not been prevented by her refusing to join it, and very heartily wishing that it might be too pleasant to allow either James or Isabella to resent her resistance any longer.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The belief of being prudent, and self-denying, principally for his advantage, was her chief consolation, under the misery of a parting, a final parting; and every consolation was required, for she had to encounter all the additional pain of opinions, on his side, totally unconvinced and unbending, and of his feeling himself ill used by so forced a relinquishment.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
You are still unconvinced?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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