impress
/im'pres/
Definition
Verb (Transitive):
- To affect someone's mind or feelings strongly and often favorably: To cause someone to feel admiration, interest, or respect.
- To apply pressure to make a mark or design: To stamp or imprint a mark, pattern, or design onto a surface using pressure.
- To fix an idea or feeling firmly in someone's mind: To make something understood or remembered very clearly.
- (Historical) To force someone into service: To compel someone, especially into military or naval service.
Noun (Countable):
- A mark or pattern made by pressure: An imprint or stamp.
- A characteristic quality or effect: A distinctive, often positive, effect produced on the mind or feelings.
Examples of Usage
Verb:
- Her confident presentation impressed the entire committee. (Her presentation caused the committee to feel admiration.)
- The artisan impressed a complex pattern into the wet clay. (The artisan stamped a pattern into the clay.)
- The teacher tried to impress the importance of honesty on her students. (The teacher tried to fix the idea of honesty firmly in their minds.)
- In the 18th century, the British navy could impress sailors into service. (The navy could force sailors to serve.)
Noun:
- The fossil showed the clear impress of a leaf. (The fossil showed the mark left by a leaf.)
- His work bears the impress of a master's hand. (His work shows the distinctive quality of a master.)
Advanced Usage
"To be impressed by/with": To feel admiration or respect because of something.
- I was deeply impressed by her dedication to the project.
"To impress something upon someone": To emphasize something strongly to make sure it is understood or remembered.
- He impressed upon me the need for absolute secrecy.
Variants and Related Words
- Impression (n): The effect or feeling produced; a mark or imprint.
- His first speech made a strong impression.
- Impressive (adj): Evoking admiration through size, quality, or skill.
- The view from the summit was impressive.
- Impressionable (adj): Easily influenced.
- Children are at an impressionable age.
Synonyms
- Verb: Affect, influence, move, strike, awe, imprint, stamp, engrave.
- Noun: Imprint, stamp, mark, impression, impact.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Impress on/upon: To make someone understand the importance of something.
- She impressed on us the urgency of the situation.
Related Idioms
- "To make an impression": To cause people to notice and remember you, usually in a positive way.
- He was determined to make a good impression at the job interview.
Noun
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the act of coercing someone into government service
Verb
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dye (fabric) before it is spun
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take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
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The men were shanghaied after being drugged
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reproduce by printing
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mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
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To make a batik, you impress a design with wax
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produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
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Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us
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impress positively
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The young chess player impressed her audience
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have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
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This child impressed me as unusually mature
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This behavior struck me as odd
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