cogent[adjective]Synonyms: convincing, compelling, effective, forceful, influential, potent, powerful, strong, weighty
Contrasted words: ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, feeble, forceless, impotent, powerless, weak
Related Words: compelling,
constraining,
forceful,
forcible,
potent,
powerful,
puissant,
inducing,
persuasive,
justified,
well-founded,
well-grounded,
consequential,
influential,
momentous,
weighty,
meaningful,
significant [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
co‧gent /ˈkəʊdʒ
ənt $ ˈkoʊ-/
adjective formal[
Date: 1600-1700;
Language: Latin;
Origin: present participle of cogere 'to drive together, collect', from co- ( ⇒ co-) + agere 'to drive']
if a statement is cogent, it seems reasonable and correct
cogent argument/reason/case etc
a cogent argument for banning the drug—cogently adverb—cogency noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲