Prepossess

Definition: Prepossess

Prepossess

Verb

1. Possess beforehand.

2. Cause to be preoccupied; "The idea of his failure prepossesses him".

3. Make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand: "A prepossessing appearance".

4. Influence (somebody's) opinion in advance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prepossess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Prepossess \Pre`pos*sess"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Prepossessed; present participle verb or noun Prepossessing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Prepossess

Misjudgment

Give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess.

Crosswords: Prepossess

Albanian

tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), ndikoj (affect, bias, color, colour, influence, operate, sway), merakos (concern, discompose, preoccupy, trouble), influencoj (influence, operate), bëj për vete (absorb, allure, capture, conciliate, ingratiate, magnetize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تفادى (avert, avoid, dodge, duck, flee, obviate, outflank, parry, preclude), ‏خلق إنطباعا حسنا, ‏أثر في (affect, impact, influence, inspire, involve, manipulate, overawe, react, touch), ‏شغل البال (preoccupy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

създавам предубеждение, вдъхвам (ensoul, imbue, implant, inbreathe, inform, inhale, inoculate, inspire, prompt, snort), завладявам (carry, conquer, devour, engage, engross, force, invade, obsess, overcome, overreach, overtake, overwhelm, seize, take over, take possession of), предразполагам (bias, dispose, incline, ingratiate, placate, predispose), поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, soak, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take down, take in, take over, whelm). (various references)

Czech

zcela zaujmout, naplnit (fill, fill up, pack), inspirovat (infuse). (various references)

French

prévenir (preclude, prevent), préoccuper (preoccupy), influencer, impressionner. (various references)

German

einnehmen (capture, carry, collect, earn, fill, occupy, soak up, take, take up, to take up, use). (various references)

Greek 

προκαταλαμβάνω (anticipate, bias, prejudice), προδιαθέτω ευνοϊκά, προδιαθέτω ευμενώσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעשות רושם טוב. (various references)

Hungarian

hatással van rá (to prepossess), elfogulttá tesz valami javára. (various references)

Italian

influenzare (actuate, affect, bias, condition, influence, sway). (various references)

Manx

dylhieeney. (various references)

Pig Latin

epossesspray

Portuguese

predispor (bias, incline, predispose), influenciar (actuate, bias, bring, coax, dominate, have an affect on, induce, influence, talk, weigh), inclinar (cant, deflect, droop, fall, incline, recline, slanting, slope, tilt, tip), causar boa impressão em. (various references)

Romanian

prejudeca (prejudice), predispune (predispose, prejudice), ocupa dinainte, cuprinde (accommodate, admit, aggregate, carry, come over, comprehend, comprise, conquer, contain, cover, embosom, embrace, enlace, envelop, grasp, grip, Harbor, harbour, include, includes, overtake, receive, reckon, see, seize, span). (various references)

Russian 

вдохновлять (imbue, inspire), иметь предубеждение. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaokupiti (engross, preoccupy), obuzeti (come over, consume, engross, grip, obsess, overcome, possess, preoccupy, smite). (various references)

Spanish

preocupar (agitate, alarm, bother, concern, exercise, perturb, preoccupy, put about, trouble, worry), predisponer (predispose, prejudice, prepare). (various references)

Swedish

göra ngn. välvilligt inställd mot. (various references)

Turkish

kafasına takılmak (fester, obsess, prey on), etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head), cezbetmek (attract, bait, beguile, captivate, catch, charm, draw on, engross, fascinate, fetch, hypnotize, lure, magnetize, wile), aklını kurcalamak, aklını çelmek (allure, beguile, bias, cozen, dissuade, draw in, entice away, infatuate, persuade, suborn, sway), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

охоплювати (blanket, comprehend, comprise, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, lap, overtake, overwhelm, rap, wrap), надихати (animate, cheer, ensoul, fire, imbue, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, lift, spiritualize, warm), мати упередження, привертати до себе. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prepossess": prepossessed, prepossesses, prepossessing, prepossession, prepossessions. (additional references)

Words containing "prepossess": unprepossessing. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: espressos, oppresses, repossess.

-2 letters: espresso.

-3 letters: oppress, possess, presses, prosses, reposes.

-4 letters: eposes, eroses, perses, posers, posses, proses, repose, sepses, speers, spores, sprees.

-5 letters: erose, erses, esses, peeps, peers, pepos, perps, perse, pesos, popes, pores, poser, poses, posse, prees, preps, prese, press, props, prose, pross, repos, repps, ropes, roses, seeps, seers, seres, sores, speer, spore.

+2 letters: prepossessed, prepossesses.

+3 letters: prepossessing, prepossession, spokespersons.

+4 letters: oppressiveness, prepossessions, prosperousness.

+5 letters: perspicuousness, purposelessness, purposivenesses, unprepossessing.

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