compelling

1. 1.

   driving or forcing

   “compelling ambition”

   Similarpowerful
2. 2.

   tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument

   “new and compelling evidence”

   Similarpersuasive

Questions about compelling

What does compelling mean?

compelling means "driving or forcing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in compelling?

compelling has 3 syllables: com-pel-ling. The stress falls on "pel". In IPA it is /kəmˈpɛlɪŋ/.

Is compelling a common word?

compelling is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with compelling?

2 words rhyme with compelling. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.