Definition of "persuasive"

persuasive

/pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪsɪv/

adjective
comparative more persuasive, superlative most persuasive
1. Able to persuade; convincing.
  Quotations
  But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.
  2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55
noun
plural persuasives
1. That which persuades; incitement.
  Quotations
  He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […]
  1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837, volume 1, page 68