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COGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cogent mean?
• COGENT (adjective)
The adjective COGENT has 1 sense:
1. powerfully persuasive
Familiarity information: COGENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Powerfully persuasive
Synonyms:
Context example:
a weighty argument
Similar:
persuasive (intended or having the power to induce action or belief)
Derivation:
cogency (persuasive relevance)
Context examples
There are, however, some cogent reasons against it.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Pray write instantly, and let me understand it—unless it is, for very cogent reasons, to remain in the secrecy which Lydia seems to think necessary; and then I must endeavour to be satisfied with ignorance.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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