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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
impressive
    adj 1: making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive
           ceremony" [ant: unimpressive]
    2: producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as
       Othello"; "a telling gesture" [syn: impressive, telling]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impressive \Im*press"ive\ ([i^]m*pr[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
   impressif.]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Capable of being impressed. [Obs.] --Drayton. --
      Im*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press"ive*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Impressive:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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