compelling

compelling
compelling adj: that compels: tending to demand action or to convince
a compelling need for disclosure
a compelling argument

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

compelling
I adjective absolute, assertive, authoritative, binding, categorical, coercive, commanding, compulsive, compulsory, constraining, decisive, dominant, driving, emphatic, enforcing, forcible, gravis, great, impelling, imperative, incisive, inducive, influential, involuntary, irresistible, necessary, obligatory, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, of necessity, omnipotent, overpowering, overriding, overruling, overwhelming, peremptory, potent, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, pressing, propulsive, puissant, strong, thrustful, trenchant, unavoidable, validus, vehemens, vigorous, weighty associated concepts: compelling interest, compelling necessity, compelling need II index binding, causal, cogent, compulsory, considerable, convincing, decisive, dictatorial, eloquent, exigent, forcible, important (urgent), impulsive (impelling), insistent, irresistible, material (important), necessary (inescapable), necessary (required), obligatory, persuasive, potent, powerful, sound, stringent, strong, unavoidable (inevitable), undeniable, urgent

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006

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