“dissuasive advice”
“made a slight dissuasive gesture with her hand”
- Synonyms
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discouraging
depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
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admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning
serving to warn
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discouraging
expressing disapproval
- Antonyms:
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persuasive
intended or having the power to induce action or belief
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convincing
causing one to believe the truth of something
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coaxing, ingratiatory
pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade
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cogent, telling, weighty
powerfully persuasive
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compelling
tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument
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glib, glib-tongued, smooth-tongued
artfully persuasive in speech
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