impress
//ɪmˈpɹɛs//
Forms
- present (v1)
- impress
- past (v2)
- impressed
- past participle (v3)
- impressed
- present participle
- impressing
- 3rd person singular
- impresses
- Plural
- impresses
Definitions
1.To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
- You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
- Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
2.To make an impression, to be impressive.
- Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
3.To produce a vivid impression of (something).
- That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
4.To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
- We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
1.A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
2.An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
3.The act of impressing.
4.An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
- This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3079
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Latin impressusder.
Middle English impressen
English impress