Definitions for impressive
ɪmˈprɛs ɪvim·pres·sive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

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

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Anagrams for impressive »

1. permissive

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1. Alex

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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. Pablo Diestro:

   I have her math reinforcement classes because she wanted to be No. 1 in everything she did. [Her death] has been an impressive blow. She was a very dear girl, very hardworking. We paid her a tribute when she won the European championship.

2. Olaf Scholz:

   Congratulations to the United States for making this outstanding choice! Janet Yellen is a very impressive person.

3. Nick Lucena:

   They’re playing the best in the world at this point, it’s pretty impressive.

4. Noah Schwarz:

   In certain groups you are going to see some impressive numbers this year reflecting the robust M&A market and in an attempt to keep top bankers happy and not moving, there have been so many situations of musical chairs in 2015 - more trades than I have seen in a long time.

5. New York:

   She talked about her sorrow, her complicity and why she did it, i found it very impressive overall.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=impressive
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Impressive
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impressive
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=impressive