What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Prepossessing vs Striking - What's the difference?

prepossessing | striking | Synonyms |

Prepossessing is a synonym of striking.


As adjectives the difference between prepossessing and striking

is that prepossessing is tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner while striking is making a strong impression.

As a verb striking is

.

As a noun striking is

the act by which something strikes or is struck.

prepossessing

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(-)
  • Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
  • *1836 , Dickens, Sketches by Boz ,
  • *:Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
  • *1852 , H. B. Stowe,
  • *:These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.

    • References

    *

    striking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Making a strong impression.
  • :
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking . In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something strikes or is struck.
  • * 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
    • We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

    Anagrams

    *