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# impressive

«impressive» in Mova's school dictionary: **So good, big, skilful or beautiful that people admire it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (impressive; more impressive, most impressive)

### meaning for a pupil

So good, big, skilful or beautiful that people admire it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impressive/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Teachers and stories use it as praise: «an impressive drawing», «an impressive score», «impressive mountains». In maths and science it can describe big numbers: «an impressive 95 per cent». Related verb «impress».

### examples

- Your science project is very impressive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impressive/#x1)
- The castle was huge and impressive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impressive/#x2)
- She scored an impressive 98 out of 100. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impressive/#x3)
- It's impressive that you can juggle five balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impressive/#x4)
- The Grand Canyon is an impressive sight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impressive/#x5)
- He gave an impressive speech at assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impressive/#x6)

### note

Double «s»: impressive. Verb «impress», noun «impression». Opposite: «unimpressive». «Impressive» praises; it does not always mean «good» in a moral sense (an impressive trick can still be wrong).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impressive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impressive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.