Impressive vs. Impress — What's the Difference?

Making a strong positive impression; inspiring admiration or awe

To affect strongly, often favorably

Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress

To produce or attempt to produce a vivid impression or image of

Capable of being impressed.

To mark or stamp with pressure

Appealing.

To apply with pressure; press

Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.

To compel (a person) to serve in the military, particularly in the naval forces, especially by seizure.

Capable of being impressed.

To seize (property) by force or authority, especially for military purposes; confiscate.

Making a strong or vivid impression;

(Law) To impose a constructive trust or a lien upon property, as a matter of equity, to protect a person without legal title but with a legally recognized interest.

Producing a strong effect;

The act of impressing

A mark or pattern of influence produced by someone or something; an impression

A stamp or seal meant to be impressed.

Impressment.

(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

(intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.

(transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).

(transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

(transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

(transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

The act of impressing.

An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.

A stamp or seal used to make an impression.

An impression on the mind, imagination etc.

Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

A heraldic device; an impresa.

The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.

To be impressed; to rest.

The act of impressing or making.

A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.

Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

A device. See Impresa.

The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

The act of coercing someone into government service

Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon;

Impress positively;

Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of;

Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure;

Reproduce by printing

Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship;

Dye (fabric) before it is spun