impressive

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Adjective

impressive (comparative more impressive, superlative most impressive)

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

Antonyms

• unimpressive

Derived terms

• impressiveness

Related terms

• impression

Translations

Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress

Czech: působivý (cs) Dutch: indrukwekkend (nl), imposant (nl) Finnish: vakuuttava (fi) French: impressionnant (fr), épatant (fr) Galician: impresionante (gl) Georgian: please add this translation if you can

German: beeindruckend (de), eindrucksvoll (de), imposant (de) Polish: imponujący m. Romanian: impresionant (ro), mișcător (ro) Russian: впечатля́ющий (ru) (vpečatljájuščij) Spanish: impresionante (es) Turkish: etkileyici (tr)

Capable of being impressed

Czech: vnímavý (cs)

Dutch: onder de indruk Russian: впечатли́тельный (ru) (vpečatlítel'nyj)

appealing

Romanian: atrăgător (ro), mișcător (ro)

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Spanish: impresionante

Anagrams

• permissive