Definition of Prepossessing

1. Adjective. Creating a favorable impression. "Strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance"

Similar to: Attractive

Definition of Prepossessing

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

Definition of Prepossessing

1. Adjective. Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prepossessing

1. prepossess [v] - See also: prepossess

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prepossessing

prepositional pronouns
prepositionally
prepositionals
prepositioned
prepositioning
prepositions
prepositive
prepositively
prepositives
prepositor
prepositors
prepositure
prepossess
prepossessed
prepossesses
prepossessing (current term)
prepossessingly
prepossession
prepossessions
prepossessor
prepossessors
preposterate
preposterous
preposterously
preposterousness
prepostor
prepostors
prepotencies
prepotency
prepotent

Literary usage of Prepossessing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historical memoirs of my own time by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1904)
"... it could not be in fact an easy matter, to find the means of answering promptly the though regular and manly, contained nothing in them prepossessing. ..."

2. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1898)
"... MORE ROBBERS—THE FRIENDS OF TIBETAN AUTHORITIES—A SNAP-SHOT —A MEEK LOT—prepossessing FEMALE AND HER CURIOUS WAYS— THE PURCHASE OF TWO YAKS JUST before ..."

3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"It isn't often that fortune favors a tenant with a lady—I should say, a landlady, so prepossessing in appearance, so amiable in manners, so attractive in— ..."

4. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1909)
"... OF TIBETAN AUTHORITIES—A SNAP-SHOT —A MEEK LOT—prepossessing FEMALE AND HER CURIOUS WAYS— THE PURCHASE OF TWO YAKS JUST before leaving the shores of the ..."

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