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Impressive vs Intriguing - What's the difference?

impressive | intriguing |

As adjectives the difference between impressive and intriguing

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 intriguing is causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

As a verb intriguing is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun intriguing is

{{cx|dated|lang=en}} An intrigue.

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

    intriguing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

    • Synonyms

    * fascinating, interesting, attractive

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intrigue.
  • * Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
    • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings , the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.