prepossessing

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pre·pos·sess·ing

(prē′pə-zĕs′ĭng)

adj.

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

2. Archaic Causing prejudice.

pre′pos·sess′ing·ly adv.

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prepossessing

(ˌpriːpəˈzɛsɪŋ)

adj

creating a favourable impression; attractive

ˌpreposˈsessingly adv

ˌpreposˈsessingness n

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pre•pos•sess•ing

(ˌpri pəˈzɛs ɪŋ)

adj.

impressing favorably; engaging; attractive.

[1635–45]

pre`pos•sess′ing•ly, adv.

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Adj.

prepossessing - creating a favorable impression; "strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance"

attractive - pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book with attractive illustrations"

prepossessing

adjective

Pleasing to the eye or mind:

attractive, bewitching, enchanting, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, lovely, pretty, sweet, taking, tempting, winning, winsome.

Translations

attraente

prepossessing

[ˌpriːpəˈzesɪŋ] ADJ → agradable, atractivo
not very prepossessing → no muy atractivo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

prepossessing

[ˌpriːpəˈzɛsɪŋ] adj → avenant(e), engageant(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

prepossessing

adj → einnehmend, anziehend

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

prepossessing

[ˌpriːpəˈzɛsɪŋ] adj → attraente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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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.

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In countenance the man was rather prepossessing, with just a hint of sternness; though that he may have assumed or cultivated, as appropriate to one in authority.

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There was much even in the appearance of Toby calculated to draw me towards him, for while the greater part of the crew were as coarse in person as in mind, Toby was endowed with a remarkably prepossessing exterior.

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He was quite a young gentleman of pleasure now, and not quite a prepossessing one.

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Attracted by his prepossessing appearance, he renewed his offers of an engagement to Dantes; but Dantes, who had his own projects, would not agree for a longer time than three months.

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Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked little close-set eyes, and yellow fangs, they were far from prepossessing in appearance.

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He did it, but he was not a very prepossessing looking object when he staggered out on deck twelve hours later, into the noon sunshine.

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He was not an extremely prepossessing father, as fathers go.

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He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one.

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I am a great advocate for timidityand I am sure one does not often meet with it.But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing. Oh!

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Her manners were by no means so elegant as her sister's, but they were much more prepossessing. She came in with a smile, smiled all the time of her visit, except when she laughed, and smiled when she went away.

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His appearance was rather suspicious than prepossessing, especially as, instead of doffing his bonnet, he pulled it still deeper over his rugged brow.