IMPRESSIVE DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
impressive adj 1: making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive ceremony" [ant: unimpressive] 2: producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture" [syn: impressive, telling] impressive permissive Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) impressive adjective Date: 1598 making or tending to make a marked impression ; having the power to excite attention, awe, or admiration <an impressive display of skill> Synonyms: see moving • impressively adverb • impressiveness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary impressive Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Something that is impressive impresses you, for example because it is great in size or degree, or is done with a great deal of skill. It is an impressive achievement... ADJ • impressively ...an impressively bright and energetic American woman called Cathie Gould... ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v English Explanatory Dictionary impressive ɪmˈpresɪv adj. 1 impressing the mind or senses, esp. so as to cause approval or admiration. 2 (of language, a scene, etc.) tending to excite deep feeling. øøimpressively adv. impressiveness n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Impressive \Im*press"ive\, a. [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. [Obs.] --Drayton. - Im*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press"ive*ness, n. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms impressive a. Affecting, touching, moving, stirring, powerful, striking, overpowering. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) impressive ɪmˈpresɪv adj. evocative, moving, affecting, stimulating, exciting, stirring, powerful, provocative, arousing, awe-inspiring, awesome, imposing, formidable, portentous, redoubtable: She has many impressive talents. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 147 Moby Thesaurus words for "impressive": Babylonian, Corinthian, absolute, acid, affecting, agitating, alive to, arousing, arresting, assuring, august, authoritative, aware, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, barbaric, biting, breathtaking, charged, cliff-hanging, cognizant, conclusive, conscious, convictional, convincing, corrosive, cutting, decisive, deluxe, determinative, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, driving, effective, elaborate, electric, elegant, evocative, exciting, exhilarating, extravagant, fancy, fine, forceful, forcible, formidable, galvanic, glorious, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, gutsy, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, imperative, imposing, impressible, impressionable, incisive, inflammatory, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, lavish, luxurious, maddening, magnificent, majestic, mind-blowing, mordant, moving, nervous, noble, notable, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, palatial, penetrating, perceptive, persuasive, perturbing, piercing, piquant, plush, poignant, portentous, posh, powerful, princely, proud, provocative, provoking, punchy, ravishing, receptive, redoubtable, ritzy, satisfactory, satisfying, sensational, sensible, sensile, sensitive to, sentient, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, strong, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, susceptible, susceptive, suspenseful, suspensive, swank, swanky, swell, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, touching, trenchant, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, vigorous, vital |
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