impress

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

1. The act of impressing.
2. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
3. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
4. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
5. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
6. A heraldic device; an impresa.
7. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

Synonyms

imprint

stamp

affect

strike

influence

print

move

fascinate

touch

seal

🦭

like

engrave

make an impression

commandeer

appeal to

ingrain

instill

mark

please

press

charm

amaze

conscript

yarn-dye

shanghai

be impressive

be fond of

give

recruit

seize

prepossess

exact

enlist

brand

emote

infix

impressment

appeal

weigh

depress

demand

bear down on

delight

cut

bear down

crush

attract

impinge

impact

hold

Translations

impresionar

impressionare

impressionar

imponieren

beeindrucken

impressionner

indruk maken op

imprimere

imponeren

imprimir

einprägen

εντυπωσιάζω

imponer

en imposer

impresión

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪmˈpɹɛs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: impressen

In summary

From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).