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Proto-Indo-European *per-?

Proto-Italic *pres-

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Middle English -yf

English impressive

From impress + -ive.

• IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/
• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

impressive (comparative more impressive, superlative most impressive)

1. Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
   Synonyms: stupendous, gee whiz
   an impressive speech
   an impressive movie
2. Capable of being impressed.
3. Appealing.

• unimpressive

• impressively

• impressiveness

• impression

making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress

• Albanian: madhështor (sq)

• Armenian: տպավորիչ (hy) (tpavoričʻ)

• Asturian: impresionante

• Belarusian: уража́льны (uražálʹny)

• Bulgarian: впечатляващ (bg) (vpečatljavašt)

• Catalan: impressionant (ca)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 令人印象深刻 (lìngrén yìnxiàng shēnkè)

• Czech: působivý

• Dutch: indrukwekkend (nl), imposant (nl)

• Esperanto: impona

• Finnish: vaikuttava (fi), muhkea (fi)

• French: impressionnant (fr), épatant (fr)

• Galician: impresionante

• Georgian: შთამბეჭდავი (štambeč̣davi)

• German: beeindruckend (de), eindrucksvoll (de), imposant (de)

• Greek: εντυπωσιακός (el) (entyposiakós)

• Hebrew: מרשים (marshím)

• Hungarian: impresszív

• Icelandic: tilkomumikill

• Indonesian: impresif (id)

• Irish: iontach

• Italian: impressionante (it), spettacolare (it), notevole (it)

• Japanese: 印象的な (ja) (いんしょうてきな, inshōteki na)

• Korean: 인상적 (ko) (insangjeok)

• Maltese: impressjonanti

• Norwegian: imponerende (no)

• Persian: چشمگیر (fa) (češmgir)

• Plautdietsch: oppfaulent, be'endrucksvoll

• Polish: imponujący (pl)

• Portuguese: impressionante (pt)

• Romanian: impresionant (ro), mișcător (ro)

• Russian: впечатля́ющий (ru) (vpečatljájuščij), внуши́тельный (ru) (vnušítelʹnyj)

• Spanish: impresionante (es)

• Swedish: imponerande (sv), maffig (sv)

• Turkish: etkileyici (tr)

• Ukrainian: вража́ючий (vražájučyj)

• Yiddish: אײַנדרוקספֿול (ayndruksful)

• Bulgarian: впечатлителен (bg) (vpečatlitelen)

• Czech: vnímavý

• Dutch: onder de indruk

• French: impressionnable (fr)

• Russian: впечатли́тельный (ru) (vpečatlítelʹnyj)

• permissive