Cogent \Co"gent\, a. [L. cogens, p. pr. of cogere to drive
together, to force; co- + agere to drive. See Agent, a.,
and cf. Coact to force, Coagulate, p. a.]
1. Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful. [Obs.]
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The cogent force of nature. --Prior.
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2. Having the power to compel conviction or move the will;
constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily
reasisted.
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No better nor more cogent reason. --Dr. H. More.
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Proofs of the most cogent description. --Tyndall.
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The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands,
Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands.
--Cowper.
Syn: Forcible; powerful; potent; urgent; strong; persuasive;
convincing; conclusive; influential.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cogent
adj 1: having the power to influence or convince; "a cogent
analysis of the problem"; "potent arguments" [syn: potent,
powerful]
2: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling
presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: telling, weighty]
WordNet (r) 2.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "cogent":
acute, admissible, advantageous, apperceptive, appercipient,
argute, armipotent, astute, auspicious, authoritative, beneficial,
benevolent, binding, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, commendable,
compelling, consequential, consistent, constraining, convincing,
credible, discerning, dynamic, effective, elegant, energetic,
estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, farseeing,
farsighted, favorable, fine, forceful, forcible, foreseeing,
foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, good, goodly, grand,
healthy, helpful, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure,
high-tension, in force, in power, incisive, inducing, influential,
irresistible, just, justifiable, justified, kind, laudable, lawful,
legal, legitimate, logical, longheaded, longsighted, meaningful,
mighty, mighty in battle, momentous, nice, noble, operative,
penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous,
persuasive, piercing, plausible, pleasant, potent, powerful,
prepotent, profitable, provident, puissant, rational, reasonable,
regal, royal, ruling, sagacious, sane, satisfactory, satisfying,
self-consistent, sensible, significant, skillful, solid, sound,
splendid, striking, strong, substantial, sufficient, telling,
trenchant, understanding, useful, valid, very good, vigorous,
virtuous, vital, weighty, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded,
wholesome
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
COGENT
COmpiler and GENeralized Translator.
A compiler writing language with pattern-directed string and
list processing features, for CDC 3600 and CDC 3800. A
program consists of productions defining a context-free
language, plus analysis and synthesis function generators.
["COGENT Programming Manual", J.C. Reynolds, ANL-7022, Argonne,
Mar 1965].
[Sammet 1969, p.638].
["An Introduction to the COGENT System", J.C. Reynolds, Proc
ACM 20th Natl Conf, 1965].
(1994-12-23)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
cogent evidence, potent, powerful, telling, weighty
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