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Impressive vs Whizzy - What's the difference?

impressive | whizzy |

As adjectives the difference between impressive and whizzy

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 whizzy is (informal) nifty; impressive, often in a superficial or showy way.

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

    whizzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Nifty; impressive, often in a superficial or showy way.
  • * 2003 , Brenda Laurel, Design Research: Methods and Perspectives
    • Many workers in research and in design start their efforts by falling in love with a whizzy strategy — or worse yet a mere tactic...
  • * 2005 , Mike Southon, Christopher West, The Beermat Entrepreneur
    • Remember that the ultimate judge of any commercial offering, from a corner shop to the whizziest internet application, is the marketplace...
  • * 2007 , John Hossein Ghazvinian, Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
    • ...creating a sort of African Saudi Arabia where the world's poorest and most dispossessed are catapulted into a whizzy tomorrowland...