adjective
definition
Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress
example
an impressive movie
definition
Capable of being impressed.
definition
Appealing.
Examples of impressive in a Sentence
The most impressive piece was a massive oak table.
If the outside was impressive, the inside was magnificent.
His special gift lay in the power to make what had been traditionally received impressive, to give to it its proper form, and to gain for it new currency.
Next morning they all assembled for the final parting, and many of the officials and courtiers came to look upon the impressive ceremonies.
His funeral was a simple but impressive public pageant.
It shows a fine combination of mildness with severity; the language is simple but powerful, and, while there is undoubtedly a lack of original ideas, the author shows remarkable skill in weaving together pregnant sentences and impressive warnings selected from the apostolic epistles and the first Epistle of Clement.
Sirian and Rissa led him back to the impressive hold at the center of the city and up a set of stairs to the second level and down a wide hallway.
Other Bad Lands, on a less impressive scale, are found along the Grand and the Moreau or Owl rivers.
Tradition depicts him as a worthy successor to his father, and represents a state of luxury and riches impressive to all who were familiar with the great Oriental courts.
Its height, 12,349 ft., is especially impressive when viewed from the sea off the west coast.
Impressive. Haven't seen one in a few thousand years.
In his hands, as may be seen from the 19 homilies on Jeremiah that have been preserved in the Greek (and others in the Latin of Rufinus), the crude homily of his predecessors began to take a more dignified, orderly and impressive form.
It may be said to spring from the head of the Taghdumbash Pamir, where it unites with the great meridional system of Sarikol stretching northwards, and the yet more impressive mountain barrier of Murtagh, the northern base of which separates China from the semi-independent territory of Kanjut.
The mystery in which the composition was long enshrouded, no single copy being allowed to reach the public, the place and circumstances of the performance, and the added embellishments of the singers, account to a great degree for much of the impressive effect of which all who have heard the music speak.
Langeron lifted his eyes with an expression of perplexity, turned round to Miloradovich as if seeking an explanation, but meeting the latter's impressive but meaningless gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox.
Almost as subtle, and much more directly impressive, is the pathos of the death of Siegfried, which is heightened by an unprecedented appeal to a sense of musical form on the scale of the entire tetralogy.
The funeral was one of the most impressive ever seen in Oxford.
Browne was a man of abstemious habits, charitable disposition, and impressive eloquence.
Diplomatic interviews, exhausting journeys, impressive mass meetings, brilliant literary propaganda - all these methods were employed by him to the utmost limit of self-denial.
Her admiration for the impressive explanations which Bishop Brooks has given her of the Fatherhood of God is well known.
When the clerk read the orders of the day Lord Palmerston rose, and in impressive and solemn tones declared "it was not.possible for the House to proceed to business without every member recalling to his mind the great loss which the House and country had sustained by the event which took place yesterday morning."
Though the canons of Dort were adopted by but two churches outside of Holland, the synod ranks as the most impressive assemblage of the Reformed Church.
The farewell ceremony was of a most impressive character, and warm tributes were paid from all parts of the house.
It was an impressive moment, when, on the 4th of December 1563, the great ecumenical synod of the Church came to a close.
The dinner menu includes an impressive selection of salads and small plates, as well as a selection of cheeses that is out of this world.
The immediate source of this version is the poem of Wolfram von Eschenbach, though the Grail, of course, is represented in the form of the Christian relic, not as the jewel talisman of the Parzival; but the psychological reading of the hero's character, the distinctive note of von Eschenbach's version, has been adapted by Wagner with marvellous skill, and his picture of the hero's mental and spiritual development, from extreme simplicity to the wisdom born of perfect charity, is most striking and impressive.
In this way a question of the most temporary interest, concerning an individual of no particular eminence or importance, has produced one of the most impressive vindications of literature ever spoken or written.
It is impossible to separate this fusion of law and equity, this union of all the higher courts into one supreme tribunal, from the construction of a single home for this great institution; and the opening of the Royal Courts in the Strand in the year 1882, when Queen Victoria personally presided in her one supreme court, and handed over the care of the building to Lord Selborne, as her chancellor and as the head of this great body, was impressive as an outward and visible sign of the silent revolution, which owed more to Lord Selborne than to any other individual.
The sandwich menu is impressive if a tad pricey.
There is something impressive, awful, in the simplicity and terrible directness of the book of Esther.
The discounts can be impressive but are unpredictable.
At any rate, the Medena hacienda was impressive.
Donnie looked at the impressive impalement and Dean started to show it to him but Claire grabbed it from his hands.
Those visually impressive designs are down to her, too.
Behind an impressive facade overlooking the recently rejuvenated shore area of the Port of Leith, is a unique hotel.
Give samples of your portfolio, and of course, show off that impressive resume.
The breached dam at the foot of the NW ridge was also an impressive sight, meriting a few photos.
The gardens contain magnificent floral displays and impressive ruins of the abbey.
The food menu is impressive -- the scampi tails are excellent.
The game engine has been ported completely intact and renders the series ' flowing football in impressive fashion for a handheld.
A chance to show off your culinary skills with Michael Bonacini's impressive boned chicken galantine.
They added a new lower bailey, with an impressive twin-towered gatehouse.
The winter also brings an impressive gathering of black-necked grebes into the harbor.
Showing well on the Garrison was the Chinese grosbeak which, although an escaped cage bird, is very impressive.
Overall, Skandia Team GBR bagged an impressive haul of eight medals.
The Service was a most impressive one, and was rendered with all due ceremony and with great heartiness.
This should prove to be a wonderfully humorous and impressive Ceramic Showcase for all.
This impressive home is situated in a truly idyllic rural location yet civilization is on the doorstep.
In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel which was now proceeding downward at an equally impressive speed.
They make an amazing noise for just two of them; drummer Patrick Carney is hugely impressive.