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Impressive vs Riveting - What's the difference?

impressive | riveting |

As adjectives the difference between impressive and riveting

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 riveting is commanding the attention of spectators.

As a verb riveting is

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As a noun riveting is

the act of joining with rivets.

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

    riveting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Commanding the attention of spectators.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of joining with rivets.
  • The act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.
  • A set of rivets; rivets collectively.
    • (Tomlinson)
    (the act of joining with rivets) Spanish: (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) (the act of spreading out and clinching the end by beating or pressing) Spanish: (trans-mid) (trans-bottom)

    Derived terms

    * butt riveting * chain riveting * crossed riveting * double riveting * lap riveting