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impressive
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "capable of being easily impressed," from impress + -ive . Meaning "capable of making an impression on the mind or senses" is from 1775. Related: Impressively ; impressiveness .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. 2 Capable of being impressed. 3 appealing ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a great/fine/impressive achievement (= one that deserves to be admired ) ▪ Winning the award was a great achievement. a vast/impressive/wide array ▪ There was a vast array of colours to choose from. an impressive/imposing ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impressive \Im*press"ive\ ([i^]m*pr[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. impressif.] Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Impressive is a free and open source software that displays presentation slides with 3D-effects. It is a lightweight and easy to use console presentation software with focus on PDF documents and images. It was started by Martin Fiedler in 2005.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive ceremony" [ant: unimpressive ] producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture" [syn: telling ]
Usage examples of impressive.
Khosrul continued in softer, more melancholy accents, that, while plaintive, were still singularly impressive.
One highly impressive exhibit of early state legislative power is afforded by the ferocious catalogue of legislation directed against the Tories, embracing acts of confiscation, bills of pains and penalties, even acts of attainder.
Before entering the forest, we saw an impressive cell of mini thunderheads, gorgeously mauve and dimly aflicker from within, standing on the phony horizon like purple-robed clerics of Doom.
He was a most impressive figure of a an whose plummy upper-class English accent and classical features belied his Afrikaner origins.
He had an impressive Afro that signaled some new level of forthrightness between black and white.
Today Herbert Marcuse, whose theories have gained new attention as a result of the impressive events of 1968 in France and the nearly universal antiwar and antipollution movements in the United States, feels confronted with the same demand.
One pubescent boy spat at Apolline, who promptly spat back with impressive accuracy.
Sherwood came upon some exotic trinkets, simple but impressive carvings of bears, in bone and walrus ivory.
Other sights were equally impressive, though Gavin made sure they were belowdecks when the Helena passed Gibbet Island, where the dry bones of four convicted pirates rattled in iron cages.
Duc de Bercy will not forbid the presence of his cousin, Detricand de Tournay, at this impressive ceremony?
The Bianchi also ended their journey in Rome, where Boniface listened to their spiritual concerns and did his best to send them on their way while diluting their impressive but dangerous religious fervor.
Any stray travelers who might wander by, such as curious tourists on a camelback tour of the forbidding desert, would perceive only yet another colorful old fort, neither as well preserved nor as impressive as, say, the more famous citadels at Jodhpur and Bikaner.
Colombo Cricket Grounds, where the game was played, was indeed a novelty, and the crowds of Cingalese that surrounded us as we left the hotel and looked on in open-eyed wonder were by no means the least impressive part of the circus.
Near an enormous clothespress she saw a narrow staircase leading downstairs, probably the staircase that was original to the dwelling, before the more impressive entrance hall was added.
The statue was impressive, showing a woman of extreme beauty in a toga-like Dardanian garment, a diadem on her short curly hair.