cogent
pronunciation
How to pronounce cogent in British English:
UK [ˈkəʊdʒənt]
How to pronounce cogent in American English:
US [ˈkoʊdʒənt]
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- Adjective:
- having the power to influence or convince
- powerfully persuasive
Word Origin
- cogent
- cogent: see squat
- cogent (adj.)
- 1650s, from French cogent "necessary, urgent" (14c.), from Latin cogentem (nominative cogens), present participle of cogere "to curdle; to compel; to collect," literally "to drive together," from com- "together" (see co-) + agere "to drive" (see act (n.)).
Example
- 1. Cogent strengthen construction of politics of leading group thought .
- 2. A cogent analysis of the problem ; potent arguments .
- 3. Cogent do good agriculture and rural work .
- 4. It lets lazy or biased people make what seem to be cogent arguments without understanding the whole issue .
- 5. In a cogent hour-long address , televised live and delivered with few notes , mr musharraf defended his nine-year rule .