ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Convince

/kənˈvɪns/ · verb

Meaning

To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence..

To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
To persuade.
(obsolete, transitive) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
(acting) To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.
(obsolete, transitive) To confute; to prove wrong.
(obsolete, transitive) To prove guilty; to convict.

I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.

Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.

[…]his two Chamberlaines / Will I with Wine, and Waſſell, ſo conuince, / That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, / Shall be a Fume,[…]

For hee mightily conuinced the Iewes, and that publikely, shewing by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christ.

And therfore, God neuer wrought Miracle, to conuince Atheiſme, becauſe his Ordinary Works conuince it.

Which of you conuinceth mee of ſinne?

O ſeek not to convince me of a Crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor can you pardon.

Choose a synonym only when it preserves the intended meaning, tone, and grammar of the full sentence.

Convince means To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence..

Common synonyms include assure, convert, convict, satisfy.

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.

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