Crossword clues for impressive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 discourse; an impressive scene.
Capable of being impressed. [Obs.]
--Drayton. -- Im*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press"ive*ness, n.
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
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
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]
Wikipedia
Impressive (April 15, 1969 – March 20, 1995) was born an Appendix American Quarter Horse, who earned his full AQHA registration in 1971. He was the 1974 World Champion Open Aged halter stallion, the first such World Champion in his breed, despite carrying only 48 halter points in total. He is famous for his highly successful progeny, having sired 2,250 foals. Nearly thirty of his offspring went on to be World Champions themselves.
Impressive is also notorious as the primary source of the widespread genetic disease known as hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP).
In his showing days, Impressive changed hands a number of times, perhaps his most famous owner being Dean Landers, who also owned the famous halter stallions Two Eyed Jack, Coy's Bonanza, and Sonny Dee Bar. Although Impressive raced for a short time after Landers sold him to Fennel Brown, he was quickly excluded from any performance discipline due to pedal osteitis, leaving halter as his only choice. His groundbreaking 1974 World Championship soon cemented his role in that discipline. Each time Impressive was resold, his price rose quickly; at one point, an offer of $300,000 for him was refused by Brown, who said "ain't nobody in this world got enough money to buy this horse."
Impressive was highly sought after for breeding, despite at one time carrying the outrageously high stud fee of $25,000. He sired a total of 2,250 foals, and as of 2003, was estimated to have in excess of 55,000 living descendants. He was bred for his muscular and refined form, which was passed on to his get often enough to make him at least the #5 all-time leading Quarter Horse sire when ranked by AQHA points earned by all progeny combined. Perhaps his greatest foal is Noble Tradition, a four-time World Champion stallion in halter, who has gone on to be a highly successful sire himself.
Although Impressive was not known to have exhibited any symptoms of the disease himself, gradually it became evident that many horses tracing to Impressive were afflicted with the painful, alarming, and often fatal disease hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP). Further, it has never been observed in horses not descendants of his line. HYPP is a dominant gene, and as such, all animals with even one copy of the gene, identified as "N/H", will exhibits some symptoms of the disease. Horses with two copies, identified as "H/H." will always pass on the condition, and research suggests that H/H horses may have more severe symptoms than N/H horses.
After a number of years of debate, effective since January 1, 2007, the AQHA amended rule 205(c)(3) and rule Rule 227(e) to require all descendants of Impressive to be tested prior to being registered, and ban from registration all horses born after January 1, 2007 with HYPP genetics confirmed by DNA testing to be homozygous for the condition (H/H).
However, other breed registries that accept animals with Quarter Horse bloodlines, including the American Paint Horse Association and the Appaloosa Horse Club, have yet to bar such animals. There is currently a widespread effort among many breeders to eliminate the disease by selective breeding, but there are those who continue to breed without regard for it, seeking the muscular enhancement correlated with it, and in doing so perpetuate the disease's existence.
Impressive is the seventeenth studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band T-Square, releasead on April 22, 1992.
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.
Impressive may refer to:
- Impressive (horse), an Appendix American Quarter Horse (1969-1995)
- "Impressive Dagger Moth", a moth of the Noctuidae family; see Acronicta impressa
- "Impressive Syndrome", a genetic disorder that occurs in horses and humans; see Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis
- Recognition for Impressive Professional Performance and Leadership Excellence on Set, see Epitome Pictures
- Impressive, a studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band T-Square (1992)
- Impressive Instant, a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her 2000 studio album Music
- Be Impressive, the debut studio album by Australian indie rock band The Griswolds
- Impressive (presentation program), a simple and open source presentation program (PDF documents, LaTeX slides, digital images)
- Impressive Title, a free-roaming 3D Role-playing video game by KovuLKD
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.