Impress

Quick meaning: Impress is a verb meaning (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

Meaning

(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
2. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
3. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
4. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
5. (figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
6. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
7. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

Example Sentences

You impressed me with your command of Urdu.

We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.

Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.

That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.

Word Forms

• impresses
• impressing
• impressed

Synonyms for impress

Depending on context, synonyms include imprint, print, stamp, pressgang, confiscate, impound.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include instill, affect, impressment, move, strike, print.

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