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Prepossessing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Serving to impress favorably; pleasing: a prepossessing appearance.

adj. Archaic Causing prejudice.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Predisposing the mind to favor; making a favorable impression; pleasing; attractive: as, a prepossessing address.

Synonyms Attractive, taking, winning.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. creating a favorable impression

Word Usage

"It seemed incredible, yet it was true; it was proved to be so to me by his pricking his ears and his attentive look at the mention of the word prepossessing him in relation to the money: Government."

Equivalent

attractive

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

attractive

Verb Stem

prepossess

Same Context

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