impressed

impressed
impressed (adj.) early 15c., "pressed or forced upon" (the mind), pp. adjective from IMPRESS (Cf. impress) (v.).

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  • impressed — adj. 1) easily impressed 2) deeply, greatly, highly, strongly impressed * * * greatly. highly strongly impressed deeply easily impressed …   Combinatory dictionary

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  • impressed with oneself — index inflated (vain) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Impressed Tortoise — Taxobox | name = Impressed Tortoise status = status system = image width = 240px image caption = regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Reptilia ordo = Testudines familia = Testudinidae genus = Manouria species = M. impressa binomial =… …   Wikipedia

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