cogent
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General adjective
Clear, logical and convincing.
She made a cogent case for cutting the project.
Law adjective
Of evidence or argument, clear, logical and convincing.
The tribunal found the expert's reasoning cogent and preferred it to the claimant's account.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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