Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to impress
Participle: impressed
Gerund: impressing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | impress |
| you | impress |
| he;she;it | impresses |
| we | impress |
| you | impress |
| they | impress |
Perfect
| I | have impressed |
| you | have impressed |
| he;she;it | has impressed |
| we | have impressed |
| you | have impressed |
| they | have impressed |
Past
| I | impressed |
| you | impressed |
| he;she;it | impressed |
| we | impressed |
| you | impressed |
| they | impressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had impressed |
| you | had impressed |
| he;she;it | had impressed |
| we | had impressed |
| you | had impressed |
| they | had impressed |
Future
| I | will impress |
| you | will impress |
| he;she;it | will impress |
| we | will impress |
| you | will impress |
| they | will impress |
Future Perfect
| I | will have impressed |
| you | will have impressed |
| he;she;it | will have impressed |
| we | will have impressed |
| you | will have impressed |
| they | will have impressed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | impress |
| you | impress |
| he;she;it | impress |
| we | impress |
| you | impress |
| they | impress |
Perfect
| I | have impressed |
| you | have impressed |
| he;she;it | have impressed |
| we | have impressed |
| you | have impressed |
| they | have impressed |
Imperfect
| I | impressed |
| you | impressed |
| he;she;it | impressed |
| we | impressed |
| you | impressed |
| they | impressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had impressed |
| you | had impressed |
| he;she;it | had impressed |
| we | had impressed |
| you | had impressed |
| they | had impressed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would impress |
| you | would impress |
| he;she;it | would impress |
| we | would impress |
| you | would impress |
| they | would impress |
Perfect
| I | would have impressed |
| you | would have impressed |
| he;she;it | would have impressed |
| we | would have impressed |
| you | would have impressed |
| they | would have impressed |
Imperative
| you | impress |
| we | Let's impress |
| you | impress |
Verbs conjugated like 'impress'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'impress'
empress,
imprest,
adpress,
appress,
compress,
depress,
express,
impest,
impregn,
ingress,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- compel (someone) to serve in a military force
- pressgang
- seize or confiscate (property) by force
- confiscate, impound, seize, sequester
- influence
- affect, stir, persuade, enthuse
- dazzle
- excite, overwhelm, overawe, awe, fascinate, wow, amaze
Antonyms
- influence
- ineffectiveness, impotence, futility, incapacity
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1374, "to apply with pressure, make a permanent image in," from L. impressus, pp. of imprimere "press into or upon, stamp," from in- "into" + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). Fig. sense of "have a strong effect on the mind or heart" is from 1413. Sense of "to levy for military service" is from 1596, a meaning more from press (v.2). Impressionable formed 1836 on Fr. model, Impressive was originally (1593) "capable of being easily impressed;" sense of "making an impression on the mind or senses" is from 1775.
2. 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”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] encompassed us like a large black hoop. Viewed from the air, or some tall bluff on shore, it would have been imposing and stupendous, no doubt; but seen from the wet and rolling decks, it only impressed one giddily and painfully. In the gale of last night the life-boat had been crushed by one blow of the sea like a walnut-shell; and there it hung dangling in the air: a mere faggot of crazy boards. [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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When I landed in America, I could not help being strongly impressed with the contrast their Custom-house presented, and the attention, politeness and good humour with which its officers discharged their duty.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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As I rose to quit the room, a pretty little child of one of the attendants came running in to greet its father. For the moment, a child with eyes, among the sightless crowd, impressed me almost as painfully as the blind boy in the porch had done, two hours ago. Ah! how much brighter and more deeply blue, glowing and rich though it had been before, was the scene without, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I am by no means a wholesale admirer of our legal solemnities, many of which impress me as being exceedingly ludicrous. Strange as it may seem too, there is undoubtedly a degree of protection in the wig and gown—a dismissal of individual responsibility in dressing for the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] manner, and the character of his audience, even this was striking. It is possible, however, that my favourable impression of him may have been greatly influenced and strengthened, firstly, by his impressing upon his hearers that the true observance of religion was not inconsistent with a cheerful deportment and an exact discharge of the duties of their station, which, indeed, it scrupulously required [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I cannot say that I derived much comfort from the inspection of this charity. The different wards might have been cleaner and better ordered; I saw nothing of that salutary system which had impressed me so favourably elsewhere; and everything had a lounging, listless, madhouse air, which was very painful. The moping idiot, cowering down with long dishevelled hair; the gibbering maniac, with his [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] say, the workhouse of New York. This is a large Institution also: lodging, I believe, when I was there, nearly a thousand poor. It was badly ventilated, and badly lighted; was not too clean; — and impressed me, on the whole, very uncomfortably. But it must be remembered that New York, as a great emporium of commerce, and as a place of general resort, not only from all parts of the States, but from [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] at his coat to detain him, whether there was no hope of his dismal sentence being commuted, the spectacle was really too painful to witness. I never saw or heard of any kind of misery that impressed me more than the wretchedness of this man.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I was sometimes asked, in my progress through other places, whether I had not been very much impressed by the heads of the lawmakers at Washington; meaning not their chiefs and leaders, but literally their individual and personal heads, whereon their hair grew, and whereby the phrenological [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Impressed by the deep solemnity of the public announcement, I (being then ignorant of these usages ) was for hurrying on board in a breathless state, immediately; but receiving private and confidential [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)