Popular song redirects here. For other uses, see Popular Song (disambiguation). Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or folk music.
The suade part that both words share has origins in the Latin root suadÄre, meaning âto urge.â In the case of persuade, the prefix per- means âthoroughly,â intensifying âto urgeâ and giving persuade its meaning of âto convince.â Think of dissuade as the opposite of persuade: the prefix dis- reverses the action of the root, giving the meaning of not ...
1 Which Word?persuade / convince The main meaning of persuade is to make someone agree to do something by giving them good reasons for doing it:I tried to persuade her to see a doctor. 2  The main meaning of convince is to make someone believe that something is true:He convinced me he was right.dd to my wordlist. 1  1 to make somebody do something by giving them good reasons for doing it persuade somebody to do something Try to persuade him to come. 2  persuade somebody Please try and persuade her.