compelling

English

Etymology

Bysurface analysis,compel+‎-ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kəmˈpɛlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes:-ɛlɪŋ

Verb

compelling

1. presentparticipleandgerundofcompel

Adjective

compelling(comparativemorecompelling,superlativemostcompelling)

1. Stronglyorirresistiblyevokinginterestorattention.

   There arecompellingreasons why a manager should have previous experience.

   • 2013June 21,Oliver Burkeman,“The tao of tech”,inThe Guardian Weekly,volume189,number 2, page27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creatingcompellingcontent ", or offering services that let you" stay up to date with what your friends are doing "," share the things you love with the world "and so on.

2. Forceful.

   The politician hadcompellingambition.

   • 2011October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal”,inBBC Sport:

     Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented acompellingcase for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Derived terms

• compellingness
• uncompelling

Translations

strongly or irresistibly evoking interest or attention

• Bulgarian:наложителен(bg)(naložitelen)
• Dutch:dwingend(nl)
• Finnish:pakottava(fi)
• German:zwingend(de),fesselnd(de),unwiderstehlich(de)
• Hungarian:impozáns(hu),nyomós(hu),hathatós(hu),magával ragadó(hu),meggyőző(hu),ellenállhatatlan(hu),kényszerítő(hu),mindenkétségetkizáró(literally“excluding all doubt”)
• Italian:impellente(it),indifferibile(it),urgente(it),pressante(it)
• Latin:cogens
• Russian:безотлагательный(ru)m(bezotlagatelʹnyj),неотложный(ru)m(neotložnyj)
• Spanish:de peso,compeliente
• Turkish:ilgi uyandırıcı

forceful—see alsoforceful

• Bulgarian:непреодолим(bg)(nepreodolim),неустоим(bg)(neustoim)
• Catalan:convincent
• Finnish:vangitseva(fi),vastustamaton,mukaansatempaava
• German:überwältigend(de),unwiderstehlich(de),fesselnd(de),hinreißend(de),überzeugend(de)
• Hungarian:erőteljes(hu),elsöprő(hu),hatalmas(hu)
• Italian:convincente(it)
• Turkish:zorlayıcı(tr)

Noun

compelling(pluralcompellings)

1. An act ofcompulsion;an obliging somebody to do something.

Related terms

• compel
• compellingly

References

• “compelling”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.
• “compelling”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.
• compellinginBritannica Dictionary
• compellinginMacmillan Collocations Dictionary
• compellingin Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
• compellinginOzdiccollocation dictionary
• compellinginWordReference English Collocations