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compelling
[ kuhm-pel-ing ]
adjective
- tending to compel, as to force or push toward a course of action; overpowering:
There were compelling reasons for their divorce.
- having a powerful and irresistible effect; requiring acute admiration, attention, or respect:
a man of compelling integrity; a compelling drama.
compelling
/ kəmˈpɛlɪŋ /
adjective
- arousing or denoting strong interest, esp admiring interest
- (of an argument, evidence, etc) convincing
Other Words From
- uncom·pelling adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of compelling1
Example Sentences
Pep Guardiola’s body language provided compelling evidence that he is now facing the closest thing to a crisis since his transitional first season at Manchester City.
Presented as compelling theater, they brought in-depth insight into our often simplistic attempts to understand the Russian mind, with its complex aspirations, fears and insecurity that can lead to greatness, grandiosity or outright malevolence.
It is more compelling than ever and will have the watching world in its thrall all over again on Friday.
These 10 walking clubs won’t help you get a dog, but they can give you a compelling reason to get up and out.
What Celtic do in the face of that danger is the compelling bit.
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