impress

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• ĭmʹprĕs
  Play
• /ˈɪmpɹɛs/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• ĭmprĕsʹ
  Play
• /ɪmˈpɹɛs/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -ɛs
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: IH2 M P R EH1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET 2: IH1 M P R EH2 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin imprimō Latin impressusder. Middle English impressen English impress From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: впечатляване (vpečatljavane) — act of impressing
• Finnish: vaikutuksen tekeminen — act of impressing
• Finnish: painaminen — act of impressing
• Finnish: leimaaminen — act of impressing
• Macedonian: дејству́вање (dejstvúvanje) — act of impressing
• Welsh: gwneud argraff — act of impressing
• Bulgarian: впечатление (vpečatlenie) — impressed image or copy
• Finnish: painate — impressed image or copy
• Spanish: impresión — impressed image or copy
• Welsh: argraff — impressed image or copy
• Bulgarian: печат (pečat) — stamp or seal used to make an impression
• Bulgarian: щемпел (štempel) — stamp or seal used to make an impression
• Finnish: leimasin — stamp or seal used to make an impression
• Finnish: meisti — stamp or seal used to make an impression
• Macedonian: пе́чат (péčat) — stamp or seal used to make an impression
• Russian: о́ттиск (óttisk) — stamp or seal used to make an impression
• Finnish: vaikutus — impression on the mind, imagination
• Finnish: leima — characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp
• Finnish: pakko-otto — act of taking by force for the public service
• Afrikaans: beïndruk — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Armenian: տպավորել (tpavorel) — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Bulgarian: впечатлявам (vpečatljavam) — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Catalan: impressionar — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Dutch: imponeren — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Dutch: indruk maken — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Esperanto: impresi — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Finnish: tehdä vaikutus — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• French: impressionner — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• German: beeindrucken — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Greek: εντυπωσιάζω (entyposiázo) — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Irish: téigh i bhfeidhm ar — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Italian: impressionare — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Luxembourgish: beandrocken — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Norwegian Bokmål: imponere — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjøre inntrykk — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Norwegian Nynorsk: imponere — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gjere inntrykk — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Portuguese: impressionar — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Russian: производи́ть впечатле́ние (proizvodítʹ vpečatlénije) — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Russian: произвести́ впечатле́ние (proizvestí vpečatlénije) — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Russian: импонировать (imponirovatʹ) — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Russian: впечатлять (vpečatljatʹ) — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Serbo-Croatian: imponirati — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Serbo-Croatian: izazivati divljenje — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Spanish: impresionar — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Turkish: etkilemek — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Welsh: gwneud argraff ar — (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
• Armenian: տպավորել (tpavorel) — (intransitive) make an impression
• Finnish: tehdä vaikutus — (intransitive) make an impression
• Māori: pēpēhi — (intransitive) make an impression
• Norwegian Bokmål: imponere — (intransitive) make an impression
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjøre inntrykk — (intransitive) make an impression
• Norwegian Nynorsk: imponere — (intransitive) make an impression
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gjere inntrykk — (intransitive) make an impression
• Portuguese: impressionar — (intransitive) make an impression
• Spanish: impresionar — (intransitive) make an impression
• Welsh: gwneud argraff — (intransitive) make an impression
• Bulgarian: внушавам (vnušavam) — produce a vivid impression of
• Finnish: tehdä vaikutus — produce a vivid impression of
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjøre inntrykk — produce a vivid impression of
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gjere inntrykk — produce a vivid impression of
• Portuguese: impressionar — produce a vivid impression of
• Russian: впечатлять (vpečatljatʹ) — produce a vivid impression of
• Bulgarian: подпечатвам (podpečatvam) — mark or stamp (something) using pressure
• Finnish: painaa — mark or stamp (something) using pressure
• German: prägen — mark or stamp (something) using pressure
• Italian: imprimere — mark or stamp (something) using pressure
• Latin: imprimō — mark or stamp (something) using pressure
• Māori: whakangoto — mark or stamp (something) using pressure
• Māori: pēpēhi — mark or stamp (something) using pressure
• Portuguese: imprimir — mark or stamp (something) using pressure
• Dutch: ronselen — compel (someone) to serve in a military force
• Finnish: pakottaa — compel (someone) to serve in a military force
• Norman: prêssi — compel (someone) to serve in a military force
• Finnish: takavarikoida — seize or confiscate (property) by force
• Italian: confiscare — seize or confiscate (property) by force
• Italian: requisire — seize or confiscate (property) by force
• Māori: muru raupatu — seize or confiscate (property) by force