Definition of Impressive

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Impressive

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.

Capable of being impressed.

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Impressive Quotations

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Rodney Dangerfield

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Robert Benchley

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Herbert Hoover

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
James M. Barrie

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
Irving Babbitt

Impressive Translations

impressive in German is eindrucksvoll, eindrucksvollen
impressive in Norwegian is imponerende
impressive in Spanish is impresionante
impressive in Swedish is imponerande

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