compelling

compelling
adj.
1 holding your attention
VERBS
be
become
find sth
ADVERB
very
utterly
oddly, strangely

His eyes were strangely compelling.

2 strong/convincing
VERBS
be
ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.
equally

Equally compelling is data that suggests that antidepressants leave some people with no relief at all.

logically

There is no logically compelling argument to support their claims.

Compelling is used with these nouns: ↑argument, ↑case, ↑drama, ↑evidence, ↑image, ↑justification, ↑logic, ↑message, ↑narrative, ↑need, ↑picture, ↑read, ↑reading, ↑reason, ↑story, ↑vision

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