as in emotional
having the power to affect the feelings or sympathies
an impressive play about a loving family attempting to lift themselves out of poverty
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Recent Examples of impressive
Many firms may have an impressive portfolio and strong references, but their working style doesn’t always align with the client’s organizational culture.
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Marcin Nowak, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Its interiors, however, are just as impressive and ornate.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2025
And because playing competitive baseball against the Rockies and Reds isn’t all that impressive, plenty of concerns remain.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Their success was even more impressive considering the lack of a complementary wide receiver to prevent opposing secondaries from doubling Lamb.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
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Marcin Nowak, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Its interiors, however, are just as impressive and ornate.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2025
And because playing competitive baseball against the Rockies and Reds isn’t all that impressive, plenty of concerns remain.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Their success was even more impressive considering the lack of a complementary wide receiver to prevent opposing secondaries from doubling Lamb.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impressive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressive
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This is the Oscar-winning director's first-ever acting Emmy nomination, and his daughter Francesca shared his emotional reaction to being nominated.—
Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Their emotional personal stories helped fuel the popularity of lotteries.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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Other exciting territory in The Grand Finale involved Mary’s changing relationship with the other Crawley women.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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That’s more exciting to me than last year, when James swept the fiction categories, with even the Pulitzer board overriding their fiction judges to award the big prize to Percival Everett’s novel.—
Maris Kreizman,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Neurons and glial cells are like dance partners in the brain, coordinating moves that shape how signals flow and how excitable neurons become.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
3 Sep. 2025
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Tony has fully bought into the dream, and Skarsgård plays him with excitable, boyish humor, almost as if the whole thing were a game.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Impressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressive. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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