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 ...
persuade verb [T]. âº to âcause âpeople to do or âbelieve something, esp. by âexplaining why they should: The âgovernment is âtrying to persuade âconsumers to âsave more. She âtried to persuade them that they should âleave. persuasive adjective us /pÉrËsweÉªÂ·sÉªv, -zÉªv/ âº a persuasive âargument.ersuade verb [T]. B1 to make someone do or âbelieve something by giving them a good âreason to do it or by âtalking to that âperson and making them âbelieve it: If she doesn't âwant to go, nothing you can say will persuade her.