Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Making a strong or vivid impression; striking or remarkable: an impressive ceremony.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Making or tending to make an impression; having the power of affecting or of exciting attention and feeling; adapted to touch the feelings or the conscience: as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.
- Capable of being impressed; susceptible; impressible.
- Synonyms Moving, stirring, affecting, touching, powerful.
- In psychology, directed inward; producing an internal effect, or carrying a meaning for the subject of the experience: opposed to expressive. See method of expression .
Wiktionary
- adj. 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.
- adj. Capable of being impressed.
- adj. appealing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. 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
- adj. obsolete Capable of being impressed.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. producing a strong effect
- adj. making a strong or vivid impression
Examples
“On the call, the British officers discussed efforts to assist U.S. investigations into hackers, some of whom are also facing charges in the U.K. They discussed what they described as impressive investigative work to recover data from hard drives of suspects.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hackers Intercept FBI Call With U.K.
“Boston College may be undefeated so far this year, but it's hard to gauge exactly how good the Eagles are heading into Saturday's ACC opener against Virginia Tech. Triumphs over Weber State and Kent State aren't exactly what you call impressive nonconference wins.”
The Washington Post: Pick 'em: Virginia Tech at Boston College
“In an interview, Lisa Bacus, American Family's VP-Marketing, said Ogilvy won the account, in part, because of what she described as impressive proprietary research into insurance consumers.”
“I'm sure if some uber-Lord of the Rings or Godfather fans decided to reenact something from one of the movies you'd call it "impressive" or at the very least "geeky,”
/Film Readers Invited to Partake in “Project Bueller” NYC Parade | /Film
“More impressive is that she must have known who you were to beckon you over!”
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Ollie Rulz!
“As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.”
The Difference between Theory and Practice « Beki's Blog (there's an original name)
“They took game two of the National League Championship series in impressive fashion, beating the San Francisco Giants six to one.”
“For the planning grants, especially impressive is that fourteen of the winners are receiving not only TIGER II grants but also coordinated Sustainable Community Challenge Grants from HUD; these can be used for localized planning efforts, such as development around a transit stop and zone or building code updates and improvements.”
“What's even more impressive is how Fisher pulled this off while hiring so many new coaches in December and getting them all on the road when recruiting resumed in January.”
“What's impressive is how well he describes without judging.”
The Washington Post: Review of "The Black Nile," by Dan Morrison
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘impressive’.
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INTERP - speeches can be...
adequate, adroit, blunt, blurred, committed, divisive, exacerbating, fitting, hollow, lengthy, murky, pronounced and 123 more...
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Coruscatingly what?
List of adjectival terms, from aggressive to zippered, paired in printed materials with the adverb coruscatingly, identified by a simple query to Google Search (Books).
...propaedeutic...aggressive, angry, articulate, astringent, aware, beautiful, big, blinding, bright, brilliant, brutal, cerebral and 93 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Adjectives
impressive growth, impressive, excessive working..., big-ticket - доро...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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beautiful
adjectives expressing beauty and more
striking, stunning, splendid, mesmerizing, enchanting, enigmatic, mystic, sparkling, amazing, awesome, babelicious, dazzling and 26 more...
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TT2 Lesson 22
scene, Bahamas, calm, still, stand stiill, star, shine, amazingly, taste, a taste of, port of call, unforgettable and 49 more...
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Replacement: Sweet
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