impressive
AdjectiveUS[im-pres-iv]/ˌɪmˈprɛsɪv/3 syllables
Synonyms:
telling
Open English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- making a strong or vivid impression“an impressive ceremony”Opposite unimpressiveSimilar dramatic, brilliant, expansive, baronial, amazing, formidable, arresting, gallant +7 moreSee also moving, extraordinary
- producing a strong effect“gave an impressive performance as Othello”“a telling gesture”Synonyms: tellingOpposite ineffectiveSimilar effective, effectual
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Translations
Adjective making, or tending to make, an impression
- Spanish
- impresionante
- French
- impressionnant
- German
- beeindruckend
- Italian
- impressionante
- Portuguese
- impressionante
- Turkish
- etkileyici
- Russian
- впечатля́ющий vpečatljájuščij
- Arabic
- مُثِير لِلْإِعْجَاب muṯīr li-l-ʔiʕjāb
- Dutch
- indrukwekkend
- Polish
- imponujący
19 more languages
- Greek
- εντυπωσιακός entyposiakós
- Korean
- 인상적 insangjeok
- Indonesian
- impresif
- Vietnamese
- ấn tượng
- Hungarian
- impresszív
- Portuguese (PT)
- impressionante
- Catalan
- impressionant
- Czech
- působivý
- Danish
- imponerende
- Esperanto
- impona
- Finnish
- vaikuttava
- Georgian
- შთამბეჭდავი štambeč̣davi
- Hebrew
- מרשים marshím
- Icelandic
- tilkomumikill
- Latvian
- iespaidīgs
- Norwegian
- imponerende
- Romanian
- impresionant
- Serbo-Croatian
- impresivan
- Yiddish
- אײַנדרוקספֿול ayndruksful
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Im·press′ive (ĭm-prĕs′ĭv), adjective
Origin: Cf. F. impressif.
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. obsolete Michael Drayton
— Im·press′wb-a1′>′ive·ly, adverb — Im·press′wb-a1′>′ive·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54