Antonym: permissive. Similar words: compel, rolling, fulfilling, willingness, spell, compete, competitor, compensate for. Meaning: [-lɪŋ] 
adj. 1. driving or forcing 2. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument.
adj. 1. driving or forcing 2. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument. 
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(151) The film was so compelling I could scarcely take my eyes off the screen for a second.
(152) Savio, a shy man who stuttered before small groups, was riveting and compelling when he spoke to thousands.
(153) The anecdotal evidence, reported in professional journals as well as the popular media, is compelling: Music heals.
(154) The evidence is necessarily anecdotal, but it is very compelling.
(155) Thus the question becomes: is there a compelling reason to bar homosexuals from marriage?
(156) For smaller farmers, too, the arguments in favour of slaughter are compelling.
(157) The court made a mandatory order compelling the vendor to allow the person to enter so that the valuation could proceed.
(158) But these likable characters are too moderately sketched to have any compelling dimension.
(159) Late Victorian Holocausts is as ugly as it is compelling.
(160) Newman's pained performance is a slightly heavy-handed but compelling version of the Marlon method.
(161) This attitude is part and parcel of the disease and the more advanced the illness, the more compelling it may become.
(162) It was so compelling for them that no one even asked for a bathroom stop.
(163) The reasons Moore gives for thinking that there can not be organic wholes are not very compelling.
(164) With difficulty she glanced away from his dark compelling gaze.
(165) Is the ultimate unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence?
(166) Without the slightest doubt this is a remarkable, compelling exhibition.
(167) Absent compelling reasons to the contrary, optimize for Google.
(168) His prose is always lucid and compelling.
(169) There were compelling reasons to Valdez from advertising.
(170) The novel has a compelling though unsubtle eloquence.
(171) The article has a compelling though unsubtle eloquence.
(172) Nuclear fusion is a compelling idea.
(173) It is a strong and compelling tight-money policy.
(174) It is a compelling study of personal identity.
(175) Try to come up with a principled, compelling counterargument.
(176) It is not a logically compelling argument.
(177) Time travel remains as compelling as it is unknowable.
(178) She was really a strange, eager,[www.Sentencedict.com] compelling young woman.
(179) So this initial argument, I think, is not compelling.
(180) Her eyes were her best feature, wide-set and compelling.
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