Gripping vs Impressive - What's the difference?
gripping | impressive | Related terms |
(pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
* 1727 , Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
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
Gripping is a related term of impressive.
As adjectives the difference between gripping and impressive
is that gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating 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 gripping
is .As a noun gripping
is (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines).gripping
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(en noun)- The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite