'Imposing' definitions:

Definition of 'imposing'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" [syn: baronial, imposing, noble, stately]
adjective
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" [syn: distinguished, grand, imposing, magisterial]

Definition of 'Imposing'

From: GCIDE
  • Impose \Im*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Imposing.] [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place. See Pose, v. t.]
  • 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. [1913 Webster]
  • Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute. [1913 Webster]
  • What fates impose, that men must needs abide. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Death is the penalty imposed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Eccl.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Print.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Imposing'

From: GCIDE
  • Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, a.
  • 1. Laying as a duty; enjoining. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." --Bp. Hobart. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Imposing'

From: GCIDE
  • Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, n. (Print.) The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4. [1913 Webster]
  • Imposing stone (Print.), the stone on which the pages or columns of types are imposed or made into forms; -- called also imposing table. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'imposing'

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