Thesaurus / cogent
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CHULA VISTA POLICE CHIEF SAYS SHE DIDN’T KNOW DEPARTMENT SHARED DATA WITH FEDSGUSTAVO SOLISJANUARY 20, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
As he is a born and bred gentleman, there are cogent reasons why he should hold a respectable position among us.
THE FATAL CORDMAYNE REID
The Master was unimpeachable; His terse, cogent assertions were unanswerable.
JESUS THE CHRISTJAMES EDWARD TALMAGE
James was a verbose and ornate declaimer; Philip was a close, cogent reasoner, without any attempt at elegance or display.
THE MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARSWILLIAM H. SPARKS
Those who voted in it followed one or other of two trains of cogent reasoning; but the reasonings led to opposite conclusions.
JOHN REDMOND'S LAST YEARSSTEPHEN GWYNN
None of the evidence given to the Commission was more direct and cogent.
THE LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE VOL. 1 OF 2EDWARD TYAS COOK
The cogent logic of facts soon showed that, however good the anchors might be, their cables could not hold.
He perceived no reason for changing his convictions, but he did perceive many good and cogent reasons for not making them public.
THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLNWARD H. LAMON
They never removed their eyes from Mr. Granville, except to take notes of his pointed, cogent, unanswerable observations!
TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR. VOLUME 3.SAMUEL WARREN
The essence of a lawful vow, is a lawful purpose, and the vow of which the end is wrong must not be regarded as cogent.
NOTES TO SHAKESPEARE, VOLUME III: THE TRAGEDIESSAMUEL JOHNSON
WORDS RELATED TO COGENT
- cogent
- conclusive
- detailed
- diagnostic
- discrete
- dissecting
- explanatory
- expository
- inquiring
- inquisitive
- interpretive
- investigative
- judicious
- logical
- organized
- penetrating
- perceptive
- perspicuous
- precise
- problem-solving
- questioning
- ratiocinative
- rational
- reasonable
- scientific
- searching
- solid
- sound
- studious
- subtle
- systematic
- testing
- thorough
- valid
- well-grounded
- analytic
- cogent
- conclusive
- detailed
- diagnostic
- discrete
- dissecting
- explanatory
- expository
- inquiring
- inquisitive
- interpretive
- investigative
- judicious
- logical
- organized
- penetrating
- perceptive
- perspicuous
- precise
- problem-solving
- questioning
- ratiocinative
- rational
- reasonably
- scientific
- searching
- solid
- sound
- studious
- subtle
- systematic
- testing
- thorough
- valid
- able
- active
- adequate
- capable
- cogent
- compelling
- competent
- convincing
- direct
- effectual
- efficacious
- efficient
- emphatic
- energetic
- forceful
- forcible
- having lead in pencil
- impressive
- live
- moving
- on the ball
- operative
- playing hardball
- potent
- powerful
- powerhouse
- practical
- producing
- resultant
- serviceable
- serving
- sound
- striking
- sufficient
- telling
- trenchant
- useful
- valid
- virtuous
- wicked
- yielding
- analytic
- analytical
- clear
- cogent
- coherent
- commonsensical
- compelling
- congruent
- consequent
- consistent
- convincing
- deducible
- discerning
- discriminating
- extensional
- fair
- germane
- holding together
- holding water
- inferential
- intelligent
- judicious
- juridicious
- justifiable
- kosher
- legit
- legitimate
- lucid
- most likely
- necessary
- obvious
- perceptive
- perspicuous
- pertinent
- plausible
- rational
- relevant
- sensible
- sound
- subtle
- telling
- valid
- well-organized
- wise
- able
- all-powerful
- almighty
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- capable
- cogent
- commanding
- compelling
- competent
- controlling
- convincing
- dominant
- dynamic
- effectual
- efficacious
- energetic
- forceful
- forcible
- impressive
- in control
- in the saddle
- influential
- mighty
- omnipotent
- overruling
- paramount
- persuasive
- potent
- preeminent
- prevailing
- puissant
- robust
- ruling
- sovereign
- stalwart
- strapping
- strengthy
- sturdy
- supreme
- telling
- upper hand
- vigorous
- weighty
- wicked
- wieldy
- arresting
- arrestive
- astonishing
- attractive
- bizarre
- charming
- cogent
- commanding
- compelling
- confounding
- conspicuous
- dazzling
- distinguished
- dynamite
- electrifying
- eye-catching
- fascinating
- forceful
- forcible
- handsome
- impressive
- jazzy
- lofty
- marked
- memorable
- noteworthy
- noticeable
- out of the ordinary
- outstanding
- powerful
- prominent
- remarkable
- salient
- showy
- signal
- singular
- staggering
- startling
- stunning
- surprising
- telling
- unusual
- wonderful
- wondrous
- alluring
- cogent
- compelling
- conclusive
- convictive
- convincing
- credible
- effectual
- efficacious
- efficient
- eloquent
- energetic
- enticing
- forceful
- forcible
- impelling
- impressive
- inducing
- inspiring
- inveigling
- logical
- luring
- moving
- plausible
- pointed
- potent
- powerful
- seductive
- slick
- smooth
- sound
- stimulating
- stringent
- strong
- swaying
- telling
- touching
- unctuous
- valid
- weighty
- wheedling
- winning
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