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  • English Word Impressing Definition of Impress
  • English Word Impression Definition The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
  • English Word Impression Definition That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
  • English Word Impression Definition That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
  • English Word Impression Definition Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
  • English Word Impression Definition An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
  • English Word Impression Definition Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
  • English Word Impression Definition The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
  • English Word Impression Definition In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
  • English Word Impression Definition A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.
  • English Word Impressionability Definition The quality of being impressionable.
  • English Word Impressionableness Definition The quality of being impressionable.
  • English Word Impressionism Definition The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.
  • English Word Impressionist Definition One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism, so called.
  • English Word Impressionistic Definition Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.
  • English Word Impressionless Definition Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible.
  • English Word Impressive Definition 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.
  • English Word Impressive Definition Capable of being impressed.
  • English Word Impressment Definition The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.
  • English Word Impressor Definition One who, or that which, impresses.
  • English Word Impressure Definition Dent; impression.
  • English Word Imprest Definition To advance on loan.
  • English Word Imprest Definition A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.
  • English Word Imprested Definition of Imprest
  • English Word Impresting Definition of Imprest
  • English Word Imprevalence Definition Alt. of Imprevalency
  • English Word Imprevalency Definition Want of prevalence.
  • English Word Impreventability Definition The state or quality of being impreventable.
  • English Word Impreventable Definition Not preventable; invitable.
  • English Word Imprimatur Definition A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.