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