convinced

American  

[kuhn-vinst] / kənˈvɪnst /

adjective

1. moved by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action.

   By the age of fifteen, after reading Marx, Engels, and Lenin, he was a convinced communist.

2. persuaded to do something by being cajoled, manipulated, coaxed, etc..

   Those expensive bells and whistles are just cosmetic features to woo the easily convinced buyer.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of convince.

Other Word Forms

• convincedly adverb
• convincedness noun
• half-convinced adjective
• quasi-convinced adjective
• unconvinced adjective
• well-convinced adjective

Etymology

Origin of convinced

First recorded in 1630–40; convince ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; convince ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

Like him, I am convinced that health and all injustice can be cured with love.

From Salon

Then, last year at a session on car batteries I came away convinced that US and European car manufacturers had no chance of catching the Chinese technology this decade.

From BBC

At a karaoke night, some years later, Ellis's friends convinced him to perform the star's 90s hit single Miami.

From BBC

But every disaster Prof Galea has studied has convinced him that people underestimate the speed with which fires can spread.

From BBC

That isolation is what convinced Rachel, then in her late 20s, to seek out a mums' group in her area of Virginia, USA.

From BBC

Related Words

• assured
• assured
• certain
• confident
• positive
• sure