What does impressive mean?

Definitions for impressive
ɪmˈprɛs ɪvim·pres·sive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. impressiveadjective

    making a strong or vivid impression

    "an impressive ceremony"

  2. impressive, tellingadjective

    producing a strong effect

    "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture"

Wiktionary

  1. impressiveadjective

    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. impressiveadjective

    Capable of being impressed.

  3. impressiveadjective

    appealing

ChatGPT

  1. impressive

    Impressive refers to something that evokes admiration or awe due to its remarkable characteristics such as size, quality, skill, excellence or magnitude. It is something that leaves a strong, positive, and lasting impact on an individual due to its exceptional nature.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Impressiveadjective

    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. Impressiveadjective

    capable of being impressed

  3. Etymology: [Cf. F. impressif.]

Wikidata

  1. Impressive

    Impressive 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. 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."

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'impressive' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3272

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'impressive' in Adjectives Frequency: #449

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of impressive in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of impressive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of impressive in a Sentence

  1. Ted Seides:

    Investors looking beyond the impressive headline returns will find a pattern of behavior that raises serious questions about ethics, morals, and a host of other risks an investor must take to achieve those returns.

  2. Rory McIlroy:

    It's awfully impressive, it's nice to get your major tally up and running at an early stage in your career. It's great to see, great for the game, and I'm sure there will be many more.

  3. Michael Froman:

    This pace of engagement is impressive, but shouldn't be surprising for what President Obama declared the 'defining partnership of the 21st century', our task is to build on our mutual interests, with mutual respect, and deliver on the promise of that partnership.

  4. Nate Elliott:

    It's particularly impressive that users are more engaged than ever before - that the percentage of monthly users who visit every day continues to grow.

  5. Thorbjoern Jagland:

    A new government will have to take this on in a much more impressive way than has been the case until now.

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