Impressive vs Dramatic - What's the difference?
impressive | dramatic |
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
Of or relating to the drama.
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Striking in appearance or effect.
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As adjectives the difference between impressive and dramatic
is that 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 while dramatic is of or relating to the drama.impressive
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Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* unimpressiveDerived terms
* impressivenessAnagrams
* permissivedramatic
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Alternative forms
* dramatickAdjective
(en adjective)Best and brightest, passage=Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. }}