impressive
/ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/
impressive adjective: making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
Adjective
impressive (comparative more impressive, superlative most impressive)
- Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
- an impressive speech
- an impressive movie
- Synonyms:
- stupendous, gee whiz, imposing, lordly
- Capable of being impressed.
- Appealing.
impressive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
impressive in Hindi
- impressive, influential
- प्रभावकारी prabhāvkārī
impressive in Tamil
- மனதில், உணர்வில் பதிகின்ற, நெஞ்சில் நிற்கின்ற, உளக்கிளர்ச்சி உண்டாக்கத்தக்க, உள்மனநிறைவு உள்மனதைத் தாக்குகிற, உள்ளத்தில் பதியத்தக்க
impressive in Urdu
- جذبات خیز, مؤثر, پراثر
impressive in Bengali
- চিত্তাকর্ষক, হৃদয়গ্রাহী, হৃদয়স্পর্শী, গভীর
More languagesFewer languages
- impressive in Malayalam
- മനസ്സിൽ പതിയുന്ന, മനസ്സിൽ തട്ടുന്ന, ആഞ്ഞുപതിക്കുന്ന, ഹൃദയകാരിയായ
- impressive in Kannada
- ಮನತಟ್ಟುವ, ನಾಟುವ, ಮನಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ನಾಟುವ, ಹೃದಯಂಗಮ
- impressive in Gujarati
- જબરું jabrũ
- impressive in Indonesian
- impresif
- impressive in Persian
- چشمگیر češmgir
Examples of impressive in a sentence
- The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.
- Some of her work is so impressive that it really ought to be in a gallery.
- At rest, the car is impressive, but when it's moving, the sight is astounding.
Synonyms of impressive
Antonyms
Forms of impressive
| comparative | more impressive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most impressive |
Origin of impressive
From impress + -ive.
Words formed from impressive
Words that rhyme with impressive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- obsessive
- possessive
- recessive
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
- future progressive
Questions about impressive
- What does impressive mean?
- Impressive means making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
- What is impressive in Hindi?
- Impressive in Hindi is प्रभावकारी (prabhāvkārī). See Impressive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is impressive?
- Impressive is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce impressive?
- Impressive is pronounced /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/.
Words near impressive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: impressive (page history and authors); प्रभावकारी (Hindi) (page history and authors); impressive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impressive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impressive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impressive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impressive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); જબરું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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