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Fascinating vs Impressive - What's the difference?

fascinating | impressive |

As adjectives the difference between fascinating and impressive

is that fascinating is having interesting qualities; captivating; attractive while impressive is making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.

As a verb fascinating

is .

fascinating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having interesting qualities; captivating; attractive.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • impressive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.
  • Capable of being impressed.
  • appealing

    • Antonyms

    * unimpressive

    Derived terms

    * impressiveness

    Related terms

    * impression

    Anagrams

    * permissive