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compelling

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com·pel·ling  (km-plng)
adj.
1. Urgently requiring attention: a host of compelling socioeconomic problems.
2. Drivingly forceful: compelling ambition and egotism.

compelling
Adjective
1. arousing strong interest: a compelling new novel
2. convincing: compelling evidence
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.compelling - driving or forcing; "compelling ambition"
powerful - having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument"
2.compelling - tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument; "new and compelling evidence"
persuasive - intended or having the power to induce action or belief; "persuasive eloquence"; "a most persuasive speaker"; "a persuasive argument"

compelling
Translations

compelling [kəmˈpɛlɪŋ] adj (fig) [argument] → convincente
compelling [kəmˈpɛlɪŋ] compel adj (fig) [argument] → irrésistible
compelling [kəmˈpɛlɪŋ] compel adjzwingend
compelling [kəmˈpɛlɪŋ] adj (fig) [argument] → irresistibile


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The poems of the T`angs are full of this subtle aroma, this suggestive compelling fragrance which lingers when the songs have passed away.
In general, the beginning and the causes of seditions in all states are such as I have now described, and revolutions therein are brought about in two ways, either by violence or fraud: if by violence, either at first by compelling them to submit to the change when it is made.
So long as histories are written of separate individuals, whether Caesars, Alexanders, Luthers, or Voltaires, and not the histories of all, absolutely all those who take part in an event, it is quite impossible to describe the movement of humanity without the conception of a force compelling men to direct their activity toward a certain end.
 
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