Prepossessing

Definition: Prepossessing

Prepossessing

Adjective

1. Creating a favorable impression; "strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance".

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

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beauty	Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.
Pain	Attractive; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing; (exciting); cheering; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing,
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Prepossessing

English words defined with "prepossessing": Gainsome ♦ prepossess. (references)

Specialty definitions using "prepossessing": Bonhomie' ♦ Leaves. (references)

Etymologies containing "prepossessing": Prepossess. (references)

Author	Quotation
Susan B. Anthony	Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Prepossessing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Prepossessing" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	62.5%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	37.5%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Language		Translations for "prepossessing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏خلاب (bewitching, captivating, charming, entrancing), ‏جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty), ‏ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, companionable, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, nice, obliging, pet, pleasing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry). (various references)

Bulgarian		симпатичен (amiable, cute, nice, nice-looking, regular, sympathetic), предразполагащ (ingratiating, propitiatory, silken, silky), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Czech		přitažlivý (alluring, attractive, catchy, desirable, toothsome), pùvabný (appealing, attractive, charming, comely, dainty, graceful, gracious, ingratiating, inviting, lightsome, lovely, pleasing, statuesque, winsome), okouzlující (adorable, alluring, arresting, beguiling, bewitching, charming, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, ravishing). (various references)

Finnish		edullinen (advantageous, advisable, favourable, profitable, remunerative, useful). (various references)

French		engageant, avenant. (various references)

German		erfüllend (complying, fulfilling, imbuing, preoccupying). (various references)

Greek		προδιαθέτων, ελκυστικόσ (attractive, buxom, catching, desirable, engaging, inviting, taking, winning, winsome). (various references)

Hebrew		עוש�" רושם טוב. (various references)

Hungarian		rokonszenves (appealing, engaging, likable, likeable, taking). (various references)

Italian		affascinante (bewitching, charming, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, intriguing, lovely, ravishing, taking, winning). (various references)

Manx		taitnyssagh (acceptable, amiable, amusing, appealing, charmed, congenial, delectable, delightful, enchanting, endearing, enjoyable, entertaining, grateful, likeable, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, scrumptious). (various references)

Pig Latin		epossessingpray

Portuguese		simpático (appealing, genial, likable, likeable, lovable, nice, pleasant, sympathetic), que dispõe bem, que causa boa impressão, cativante (attractive, captivating, catch, catchy, charming, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, lovable, lovely, stunner, sweet, taking, winsome), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, pretty, sexy, striking, stunner, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy), agradável (amiable, comely, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, genial, gladsome, glorious, good-humored, good-humoured, goodly, good-natured, kindly, lovely, merry, music, musical, neat, nice, nutty, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pretty, racy, restful, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, stunner, suave, taking, welcome, well-done, well-natured). (various references)

Romanian		simpatic (attractive, attractively, congenial, inclination, ingratiating, kindly, likable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, shine, sympathetic), atrãgãtor (alluring, attractive, attractively, beautiful, catchy, fair, fascinating, likable, lovely, luscious, magnetic, pleasing, seemly, sweet, taking, winning, winsome). (various references)

Russian		располагающий (likable, likeable), приятный (agreeable, cuddly, cushy, dulcet, enjoyable, graceful, grateful, jolly, likable, nice, palatable, peachy, pleasant, pleasurable, pretty, satisfactory, simpatico, soft, sweet-tempered). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		privlačan (alluring, arresting, attractive, catchy, charming, engaging, fetching, foxy, personable, sexy, toothsome, winning, winsome), impozantan (imposing, impressive). (various references)

Spanish		atractivo (affinity, allure, allurement, alluring, appeal, appealing, attiring, attraction, attractive, attractiveness, catching, charm, chic, colorful, colourful, cool, delightful, engaging, fetching, gilt, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, good looking, inviting, kissable, likeable, lure, magnetic, neat, nice-looking, seduction, seductive, seductiveness, seemliness, seemly, sexy, taking, temptation, tempting, whatever, winsome), agradable (agreeable, capacious, comfortable, congenial, enjoyable, genial, goodly, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcome). (various references)

Swedish		vinnande (catching, endearing, pleasing, winning), attraktiv (appealing, attractive, comely, inviting, personable). (various references)

Turkish		cazibeli (attractive, charming, enticing), alımlı (attractive, charming, comely, endearing, engaging, fetching), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references)

Ukrainian		при�"мний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pretty, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy). (various references)

Vietnamese		l� m cho dễ có ý thiên, dễ thương (ingratiatingly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, tender), dễ gây cảm tình. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "prepossessing": unprepossessing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Prepossessing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perpossesing, prepossesing, prepossissing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-s-s-s-s"
	-1 letter: repossessing.
	-2 letters: prosinesses, soppinesses.
	-3 letters: egressions, gorinesses, oppressing, possessing, prepossess, ropinesses, rosinesses.
	-4 letters: egression, engrosses, espressos, gneissose, gossipers, grossness, ingresses, isoprenes, oppresses, peperonis, pressings, progenies, prosiness, repossess, responses, serpigoes, soppiness, speerings.
	-5 letters: enosises, epigones, erepsins, eringoes, espresso, genoises, gneisses, goriness, gossiper, greisens, isoprene, noesises, ogresses, peperoni, pepsines, perigons, pioneers, poperies, pressing, propenes, propense, propines, prossies.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-s-s-s-s"
	+2 letters: unprepossessing.
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