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Magnificent vs Impressive - What's the difference?

magnificent | impressive |

As adjectives the difference between magnificent and impressive

is that magnificent is grand, elegant or splendid in appearance while 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.

magnificent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , chapter=1, title= The Case of Miss Elliott , passage= “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.}}
  • Grand or noble in action.
  • Exceptional for its kind.
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City , passage=Substitute Edin Dzeko scrambled in a fourth and the magnificent David Silva ran clear to add another, before the Bosnian striker inflicted the final wound seconds from the end.}}

    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

    Anagrams

    * permissive