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
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
James M. Barrie
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
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
Lester B. Pearson
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Herbert Hoover
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
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
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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