Examples

"an impressive ceremony"

Used in print

His statistical record that year , when Texas won only one game and lost nine , was far from impressive : he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards , punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards .

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel_de_Cervantes ' `` Don_Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle , done in wide_screen and color , which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth_Street and Sixty-eighth_Street_Playhouses .

It is awfully talky , for_instance , and not all_of the talk is terribly impressive .

Jen_Nelson , as Thea , his first wife , managed to make that short role impressive .

But the most impressive testimony to Schnabel 's distinction as a teacher is reflected by the individuality which marks each student 's approach as distinctly his own .

Related terms

unimpressive dramatic brilliant expansive amazing formidable baronial arresting gallant dazzling dazzling thundering grandiose important-looking heroic astonishing signal mind-boggling palatial moving

Synonyms

telling

Examples

"gave an impressive performance as Othello" "a telling gesture"

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effective