Synonyms of coaxing

coaxing 1 of 2

noun

as in persuading

Related Words

• persuading
• wheedling
• convincing
• cajolery
• entreaty
• inducement
• inducing
• exhortation
• suasion
• blandishment
• conversion
• prompting
• seduction
• persuasion
• urging
• cajolement
• tempting
• influencing
• swaying
• lobbying
• pressuring
• brainwashing
• overpersuasion

coaxing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of coax

as in cajoling

to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery

trying to coax their father into taking them on a ski trip, the teens mentioned what a great skier he is

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cajoling
• wheedling
• luring
• wooing
• seducing
• urging
• enticing
• begging
• sweet-talking
• blandishing
• palavering
• tempting
• massaging
• blarneying
• beseeching
• charming
• importuning
• flattering
• overpraising
• soft-soaping
• wangling
• juggling
• adulating
• wiling
• buttering up
• finagling
• cozening
• beguiling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• teasing
• harassing
• pestering
• nagging
• bugging
• intimidating
• requiring
• forcing
• demanding
• coercing
• bullying
• making
• obliging
• browbeating
• compelling
• constraining
• bulldozing
• cowing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of coaxing

Noun

Her debut was a bit of a fluke at the coaxing of her close friend, the harpist and DJ Mary Lattimore. — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026

Spider Plant Unlike snake plants, spider plants need no coaxing to make more plants for your collection. — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2026

And honestly, this type of traveler doesn’t need the most coaxing to try out a cruise vacation. — Scott Laird, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

No coaxing or pulling from the crate. — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2026

Hair that’s naturally less heavy can hold more shape and bounce when styling, but maintaining a full-bodied look might take some extra coaxing. — Grace McCarty, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2026

Pushing, pulling and coaxing wins out of his team amid bleak situations is what Tomlin does. — Mike Jones, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026

Verb

As a cabaret musician who entertains the troops, Penélope Cruz is a wickedly brassy marvel—vamping up a storm one minute, grumbling about her menstrual cycle the next, and eventually coaxing even Sebastián out of his mopey shell. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2026

The neighborhood/area A mile and a half away lies the pretty village of Lyndhurst, with its tourist-coaxing fudge shops and pubs, and a Ferrari dealer plonked incongruously among the red brick and timber quaintness. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Energy from the sun helps reactions between those blocks along, coaxing them to form polymers, or longer chains of molecules. — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026

Some analysts argue that the Obama administration set a hopeful precedent on AI cooperation by coaxing China to join the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

With a little more coaxing, the same results can be achieved with the base Copilot license, simply by using the right prompt-model combinations. — Chris Stegh, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026

There’s no mediation or therapy-speak gently coaxing the brothers toward reconciliation. — Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026

Arsenal want to do that in a range of ways — in personnel, stylistic development, and by coaxing more from their current group. — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026

Last year, Ian Stamy took the state prize for his bumper soybean yield, coaxing an average of just over 100 bushels per acre from his operation in central Pennsylvania. — Scott Neuman, NPR, 20 Aug. 2026