different between persuasive vs persuader

English

Etymology

From Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persu?s?vus, from Latin past participle stem of persu?d?re + -?vus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?(?)?swe?s?v/

Adjective

persuasive (comparative more persuasive, superlative most persuasive)

1. able to persuade; convincing

Derived terms

• counterpersuasive

Translations

Noun

persuasive (plural persuasives)

1. That which persuades; incitement.
   • 1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837 (volume 1, page 68)

     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, […]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?a.ziv/

Adjective

persuasive

1. feminine singular of persuasif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

persuasive

1. inflection of persuasiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

persuasive

1. feminine plural of persuasivo

English

Etymology

persuade +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d?/

Noun

persuader (plural persuaders)

1. One who, or that which, persuades.
2. (printing, historical, colloquial) A tool used to pack the type into the form.
   • 1898, John Southward, Modern Printing: A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Typography and the Auxiliary Arts

     Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.

3. (television) An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.
   • 1953, Stanley William Amos, ?D. C. Birkinshaw, Television Engineering, Principles and Practice (page 108)

     These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.

Anagrams

• predauers

French

Etymology

From Middle French persuader, from Latin persu?de? (“I persuade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?a.de/
• Homophones: persuadai, persuadé, persuadée, persuadées, persuadés, persuadez

Verb

persuader

1. to persuade

Conjugation

Related terms

• persuadé
• persuasif
• persuasion

Further reading

• “persuader” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dépureras

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin persu?de? (“I persuade”).

Verb

persuader

1. to persuade

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Related terms

• persuasion

Descendants

• French: persuader