Imposing

Definition: Imposing

Imposing

Adjective

1. Impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns".

2. Used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty".

Date "imposing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Imposing

Synonyms: baronial (adj), distinguished (adj), magisterial (adj), noble (adj), stately (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitation	Exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting; Verb: impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing; (painful); telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow.
Importance	Grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding, imposing.
Repute	Great, dignified, proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand, stately, august, princely. imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic, sacred, sublime, heaven-born, heroic, sans peur et sans reproche; sacrosanct.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You're not particularly smart, can hardly smell, can barely see, and you're not even vaguely physically or spiritually imposing. Is there anything you do well (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)
Lyrics	I know we might seem imposing ("Men in Black"; performing artist: Will Smith)
Movie/TV Titles	Imposing on Good Nature (1919)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Global America: Imposing Liberalism on a Recalcitrant World (reference) Imposing Aid: Emergency Assistance to Refugees (reference) Imposing Duties: Government's Changing Approach to Compliance (reference) Imposing Economic Sanctions: Legal Remedy or Genocidal Tool? (reference) Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	The Valley, Half Dome, Nevada Falls, Cap of Liberty and imposing Sierras (E.S.E.) from Eagle Peak, Yosemite, Cal. Credit: Library of Congress.		View of Viñales Valley, a tropical landscape in a setting of weird shaped hills of imposing grandeur. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Two valuable resources of the Southwest--rich oil fields and fine grazing land. In this scene near Norwalk, California oil wells rear their imposing structures over a herd of cows on one of the state's dairy farms. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Adroit men have so many ways of imposing upon this good simple people
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In another key step, the State Planning & Developing Commission (SDPC), the MOC, and SEPA jointly issued regulations imposing wastewater fees on urban citizens, “The Notice on Increasing Wastewater Treatment Fees and Establishment of Centralized Urban Wastewater Treatment Systems”. (references)
		In a number of cases certain Russian businesses have not paid foreign equipment suppliers what was owed, perceiving they could avoid making such payments, and, essentially, get away with it by imposing prohibitive costs on their suppliers and creditors in seeking to repossess equipment. (references)
Civil Liberties	Bosnia and Herzegovina	The August 1999 decision by the High Representative imposing amendments to the RS broadcasting law has not been implemented fully. (references)
	Equatorial Guinea	Although Mba Bela did not justify his order, the press had criticized him for imposing a new regulation on city taxis prior to the order. (references)
	Bangladesh	Supporters of the ruling party frequently will schedule their own rallies for the same venue and time as scheduled opposition rallies and meetings, thus providing the Government a basis for imposing a ban for security reasons. (references)
Economic History	Poland	There are no laws imposing roles for Polish importers. (references)
	China	It has also agreed not to enforce contracts imposing these requirements. (references)
	Vietnam	Industrialized wastewater is also imposing a great negative impact on the environment. (references)
Human Rights	South Africa	The new laws have contributed to prison overcrowding by imposing an increased number of long-term prison sentences. (references)
	Ghana	He criticized the judicial system for imposing prison sentences instead of levying fines, which could prevent further overcrowding of the prisons. (references)
	Iran	According to HRW, on January 13, the Court convicted seven of them on the vague charge of "having conspired to overthrow the system of the Islamic Republic." The Court convicted three other defendants on lesser charges, imposing fines and suspended sentences, and acquitted seven others. (references)
Indigenous People	Japan	Under an 1899 law, the Government pursued a policy of forced assimilation, imposing mandatory Japanese-language education and denying the Ainu their right to continue traditional practices. (references)
Minorities	Iran	The legal system discriminates against minorities, awarding lower compensation awards in injury and death lawsuits and imposing heavier punishments than on Muslims. (references)
Political Economy	PHILIPPINES	A number of other laws specify, or have the effect of imposing, local sourcing requirements. (references)
Political Rights	Belarus	Electoral precincts throughout the country undermined the legal right of observers to observe the election counts by imposing the requirement that they stand several yards from the ballot counting. (references)
Trade	Pakistan	Pakistan has no uniform or universal system of imposing labeling and marking requirements on products. (references)
	Venezuela	Venezuela has recently established procedures for imposing countervailing duties to avoid dumping and counteract subsidies. (references)
Travel	Bulgaria	Occasionally, plainclothes inspectors make spot checks, imposing BGN 4.00 fines on those traveling without tickets. (references)
Women	South Africa	At police stations, rape victims face a lack of facilities coupled with the unsympathetic treatment women frequently receive from both the police and the justice system." Although judges in rape cases generally follow statutory sentencing guidelines, judges occasionally are criticized by women's advocacy groups for using questionable criteria, such as the victim's behavior or relationship to the rapist, as a basis for imposing lighter sentences. (references)
Worker Rights	Venezuela	The ILO urged the Government to refrain from displaying favoritism with regard to the FBT and to abandon the idea of imposing trade union unity. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to study the science of government, appointed one hundred of his fattest subjects as members of a parliament to make laws for the collection of revenue. Forty of these he named the Party of Opposition and had his Prime Minister carefully instruct them in their duty of opposing every royal measure. Nevertheless, the first one that was submitted passed unanimously. Greatly displeased, the King vetoed it, informing the Opposition that if they did that again they would pay for their obstinacy with their heads. The entire forty promptly disemboweled themselves. "What shall we do now?" the King asked. "Liberal institutions cannot be maintained without a party of Opposition." "Splendor of the universe," replied the Prime Minister, "it is true these dogs of darkness have no longer their credentials, but all is not lost. Leave the matter to this worm of the dust." So the Minister had the bodies of his Majesty's Opposition embalmed and stuffed with straw, put back into the seats of power and nailed there. Forty votes were recorded against every bill and the nation prospered. But one day a bill imposing a tax on warts was defeated -- the members of the Government party had not been nailed to their seats! This so enraged the King that the Prime Minister was put to death, the parliament was dissolved with a battery of artillery, and government of the people, by the people, for the people perished from Ghargaroo.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	The state of them has been materially changed by the act of Congress, passed at their last session, in alteration of several acts imposing duties on imports, and by acts of more recent date of the British Parliament.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	There are many areas and some whole States where good schools cannot be provided without imposing an undue local tax burden on the citizens.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Since Vietnam we have not asked for those controls and we have tried to avoid imposing them.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	This significant increase in aid has allowed States and localities to maintain services that are essential to their citizens without imposing onerous tax burdens.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Imposing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 82.89% of the time. "Imposing" is used about 753 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	82.89%	624	10,381
Adjective (general or positive)	16.18%	122	29,069
Noun (singular)	0.8%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	0.13%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	753	N/A

Expressions using "imposing": imposing stone ♦ imposing table. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "imposing": re-imposing, supra-imposing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "imposing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		madhështor (brilliant, dignified, distinguished, exalted, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, impressive, kingly, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, monumental, olympian, palatial, princely, proud, royal, spectacular, splendid, stately, sublime, superb). (various references)

Arabic		‏فخم (deluxe, grand, grandiose, imperial, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, palatial, plushy, pompous, pontifical, regal, rich, royal, splendid, stately, substantial, sumptuous, superb), ‏مهيب (august, awesome, awful, fearful, grand, magnificent, majestic, portly, solemn, sublime, venerable), ‏عالي (hard to reach, monstrous, standard, supreme, tall), ‏جليل (august, dignified, exalted, glorious, grand, grave, great, honorable, honourable, important, lofty, magnificent, portly, respectable, significant, solemn, splendid, stately, sublime, venerable), ‏جدير بالإحترام (honourable, worth). (various references)

Bulgarian		внушителен (awesome, compulsive, gallant, grave, handsome, heroic, imperial, impressive, noble, portly, proud, towering), импозантен. (various references)

Chinese		强加 (impose, imposed, Obtrusion), 宏偉 (grand, magnificent), 堂皇 (grand). (various references)

Czech		impozantní (commanding, formidable, impressive, mighty, stately), pùsobivý (appealing, catchy, compelling, effective, forceful, forcible, impressive, operative, potential, reactive, telling, workable), grandiózní (epic, grand, grandiose). (various references)

Danish		ubrugt sats (cancelmatter, imposing stone, imposing surface), slutteplade (cancelmatter, imposing stone, imposing surface), sluttebord (cancelmatter, imposing stone, imposing surface), ombrydning (making up and imposing, overrunning, reimposition, remaking-up, upmaking), den Hoeje Myndighed er berettiget til at fremskaffe de noedvendige midler ved et laegge afgifter produktioner af kul og staal (the High Authority is empowered to procure the funds it requires by imposing levies on the production of coal and steel). (various references)

Dutch		indrukwekkend, imponerend. (various references)

Esperanto		impona. (various references)

Finnish		upea (magnificent, splendid, stately), suurenmoinen (grand, great, magnificent, splendid), muhkea (grand, impressive, stately), komea (fine, good-looking, grand, magnificent, splendid, stately). (various references)

French		imposant (impressive). (various references)

German		imponierend (impressive), stattlich (considerable, gallant, handsome, impressive, lovely, magnificent, majestic, noble, opulent, personable, portly, sightly, splendid, stately, strapping), imposant (commanding, impressive, impressively), auferlegend (enjoining), aufbürdend. (various references)

Greek		επιβλητικόσ (commanding, grandiose, imperial, impressive, orotund), επιβλητικός (authoritative, awesome, dignified). (various references)

Hebrew		מפואר (glorious, grand, grandiose, luxurious, magnificent, palatial, splendid, stately, sumptuous), רב רושם (impressive). (various references)

Hungarian		hatásos (effective, effectual, impressive, operative, potent, telling), tiszteletet parancsoló (commanding, dignified), impozáns (commanding, compelling, redoubtable, redoubted, stately). (various references)

Indonesian		mengesankan (impress), dahsyat (awe, awe inspiring, awful, dire, dreadful, horrifying, terrifying). (various references)

Italian		imponente (arrestingly, awesome, awful, grand, lordly, massive, stately, towering). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		物物しい (overdone, showy), 立派 (elegant, fine, handsome, legal, legitimate, prominent, splendid), 広壮 (grand, magnificent), 凛々しい (awe-inspiring, biting, brave, chivalrous, dignified, gallant, manly, severe), 凛凛しい (awe-inspiring, biting, brave, chivalrous, dignified, gallant, manly, severe), 宏壮 (grand, magnificent), 堂堂たる (dignified, magnificent, majestic, stately). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		どうどうたる (dignified, magnificent, majestic, stately), こうそう (conception, confused fighting, dispute, frost, good running, grand, high and dry ground, high priest, hurrying, idea, imperial ancestors, magnificent, muzzle loading gun, ore bed, plan, plot, public funeral, red algae, resistance, rhodophyceae, sailing, school funeral, sending back or sending later, spice used for cooking, upper, virtuous priest), りっぱ (elegant, fine, handsome, legal, legitimate, prominent, splendid), りりしい (awe-inspiring, biting, brave, chivalrous, dignified, gallant, manly, severe), ものものしい (overdone, showy). (various references)

Korean		부과함. (various references)

Manx		moylleydagh (laudable). (various references)

Norwegian		imponerende (formidable, impressive). (various references)

Pig Latin		imposingay.(various references)

Portuguese		imponente (gallant, grand, grandiose, lofty, majestic, monumental, noble, pompous, stately). (various references)

Romanian		impunãtor (commanding, dignified, grandiose, portly, spectacular, stately, tremendous), impresionant (arresting, imposingly, impressive, solemn), impozant (commanding, gallant, goodly, grandiose, superb, towering), prestigios (impressive), maiestuos (dignified, lordly, majestic, majestically, proud, queenly, stately, sublime), grandios (grand, grandiose, mighty, noble, stately, sublime). (various references)

Russian		внушительный (commanding), навязывать;налагать навязчивый. (various references)

Scottish		mealltaireachd. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		impozantan (impressive, prepossessing), zadivljujući (astonishing), koji se nameće. (various references)

Spanish		imponente (commanding, gallant, grand, smashing, thundering, towering). (various references)

Swedish		imponerande (gallant, impressive, lofty). (various references)

Turkish		heybetli (ample, baronial, dreadfull, formidable, grandiose, majestic, monumental, redoubtable, solemn, stately, tremendous), etkileyici (affecting, affective, charismatic, devastating, dramatic, effective, effectively, enchanting, expressive, fascinating, forceful, handsome, impressive, intense, speaking, touchy, winged), azametli (lofty, lordly, magnificent, ostentatious, pompous, proud). (various references)

Ukrainian		імпозантний, показний (affected, catchpenny, conspicuous, flashy, meretricious, orchidaceous, ostensible, ostensive, ostentatious, portly, presentable, pretentious, showy, specious, sporty, stagey, stagy). (various references)

Vietnamese		hùng vĩ (grandiose, mighty, proudly, sublime), gây ấn tượng mạnh mẽ; oai nghiêm, bệ vệ, đường bệ (majestic, olympian). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	ni-gur. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "imposing": imposingly. (additional references)
	Words ending with "imposing": reimposing, superimposing, unimposing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Imposing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impoi, imposting. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "imposing" (pronounced i'mpō"zing)
6	-m p ō" z i ng	composing, decomposing, reimposing.
5	-p ō" z i ng	disposing, exposing, opposing, posing, predisposing, proposing, supposing.
4	-ō" z i ng	closing, disclosing, dozing, enclosing, foreclosing, hosing, nosing, Rosing.
3	-z i ng	antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, colorizing, commercializing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disguising, downsizing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, oozing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, praising, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-i-m-n-o-p-s"
	-1 letter: impings, poising.
	-2 letters: gipons, imping, moping, pingos, posing, siping.
	-3 letters: gimps, gipon, gismo, imino, impis, minis, oping, opsin, piing, pingo, pings, pions, pongs.
	-4 letters: gimp, gins, gips, impi, imps, ions, migs, mini, miso, mogs, mons, mops, nims, nips, nisi, nogs, noms, pigs, ping, pins, pion, piso, pois, poms, pong, pons, sign, simp, sing, smog.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-i-m-n-o-p-s"
	+1 letter: epigonism, imposting, promising.
	+2 letters: comprising, epigonisms, imposingly, miscopying, mispoising, optimising, reimposing, unimposing.
	+3 letters: compositing, empoisoning, epitomising, imprisoning, improvising, mispointing, misstopping, promisingly, slipforming, temporising, unpromising.
	+4 letters: compromising, discomposing, impassioning, impetiginous, miscomputing, misemploying, misreporting, monopolising, outpromising, physiognomic, polymerising, postmidnight, premonishing.
	+5 letters: accomplishing, computerising, extemporising, impersonating, impoverishing, impregnations, miscaptioning, misdeveloping, misprograming, overpromising, physiognomies, physostigmine, pigmentations, premoistening, primogenitors, suboptimizing, superimposing, trampolinings, unpromisingly.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
imposing quite	18
imposing plus quite	10
imposing	4
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Imposing

Definition: Imposing

Imposing

Adjective

Synonyms: Imposing

Synonyms within Context: Imposing

Excitation

Importance

Repute

Crosswords: Imposing

Modern Usage: Imposing

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Computer Images:Imposing

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Use in Literature: Imposing

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Imposing

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Imposing

John Quincy Adams

Harry S. Truman

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Imposing

Expressions: Imposing

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Imposing

Modern Translation: Imposing

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