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 ...
Synonyms: persuade, induce, prevail, convince. These verbs mean to succeed in causing a person to do or consent to something. Persuade means to win someone over, as by reasoning or force of personality: Nothing could persuade her to change her mind.To induce is to lead, as to a course of action, by means of influence or persuasion: Pray what could induce him to commit so rash an action? (Oliver Goldsmith).revail-use persuasion successfully; He prevailed upon her to visit his parents. drag-persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; He dragged me away from the television set. tempt-try presumptuously; St.