impress
impress is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 9 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
- 2.Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate. Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them. I. Watts.
- 3.Etym: [See Imprest, Impress, n., 5.] To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn.
- 4.To be impressed; to rest. [Obs.] Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress. Chaucer.
- 5.The act of impressing or making.
- 6.A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence. The impresses of the insides of these shells. Woodward. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice. Shak.
- 7.Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. South.
- 8.A device. See Impresa. Cussans. To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint. Milton.
- 9.Etym: [See Imprest, Press to force into service.] The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. Why such impress of shipwrights Shak. Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. -- Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acute
- aesthetic
- aesthetics
- aware
- cause
- conscious
- consciousness
- cultivate
- excite
- external
- feel
- feeling
- impressibility
- impression
- impressive
- keen
- knowledge
- lively
- moral
- needle
- perceive
- perceptive
- perceptivity
- physical
- pole
- produce
- quick
- render
- sensation
- sensibility
- sensible
- sensitive
- sensuous
- sentient
- sharp
- sharpen
- the
- thin-skinned
- tutor
- vivid
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is impress.
- What is to produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something) called?
- What is fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate. Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them. I. Watts called?
- What is to be impressed; to rest. [Obs.] Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress. Chaucer called?
- What is characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. South called?
- What is a device. See Impresa. Cussans. To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint. Milton called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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