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Impressive vs Captivate - What's the difference?

impressive | captivate |

As an adjective 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 captivate is

to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.

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

    captivate

    English

    Verb

    (captivat)
  • To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
  • * Washington Irving
    • small landscapes of captivating loveliness
  • *, chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
  • (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their woes whom fortune captivates .
  • * Glanvill
    • 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.

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