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单词 prepossessing
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Definition of prepossessing in English:

prepossessing

adjective priːpəˈzɛsɪŋˌpripəˈzɛsɪŋ
  • often with negative Attractive or appealing in appearance.

    (外貌)给人好感的,打动人的;有吸引力的

    he was not a prepossessing sight

    他外表没什么吸引人之处。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I said, trying to score a point: ‘A pair of broken glass is hardly a prepossessing sight, they must have put it away.’
    • He took a quiet sip, his wide, prepossessing brown eyes scanning Carnon's swiftly and sharply.
    • Adams had never been a physically prepossessing man, even in his prime.
    • He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing.
    • Not very prepossessing to look at but this hard, round hairy ball is so versatile you will never look at it the same way again after reading this column.
    • Utterly naïve and anachronistic it may be, but it's no less prepossessing and pretty for that.
    • Flightless, fangless, clawless, slow, and weak, he isn't physically prepossessing.
    • The impressive group of works which forms the core of the exhibition is accompanied by others less prepossessing and of sometimes doubtful relevance.
    • She is neither particularly prepossessing in her appearance nor outwardly warm, as even David admits remembering his first acquaintance with her.
    • She was young, but attractive and quite prepossessing.
    • I've just looked at the pictures of the fish, and it looks even less prepossessing than it did in the flesh, so to speak.
    • He is physically prepossessing, with a ‘massive build’ simmering with ‘tremendous, dormant strength’.
    • While not physically prepossessing and perhaps less obviously glamorous than her contemporaries, she is aging beautifully, and it is a pleasure to see her work.
    • He wasn't a very prepossessing sight: his neck barely seemed capable of supporting the weight of his head and his legs curved around in a small ball underneath him.
    • In that portrait, now in the Louvre, Chardin looks more conventionally prepossessing: debonair, benign and smiling all over his face.
    • Gap-toothed, bold in face, and of a ruddy complexion, the Wife was no longer prepossessing in appearance, if she ever had been.
    Synonyms
    attractive, beautiful, pretty, handsome, good-looking, fetching, striking, pleasing, pleasant, agreeable, appealing, likeable, lovable, amiable, charming, delightful, engaging, inviting, alluring, magnetic, winning, enchanting, captivating, bewitching, fascinating
    US informal on fleek
    dated taking
    archaic fair

Derivatives

  • prepossession

  • noun priːpəˈzɛʃ(ə)nˌpripəˈzɛʃ(ə)n
    • A preconceived opinion; a prejudice.

      ill-informed prepossessions
      Example sentencesExamples
      • imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one
      • Subjective analysis always leads to flawed determination due to the inherent inability to view things apart from personal prejudices and dogmatic prepossessions.
      • Such a prepossession serves to vitiate all of Freud's subsequent clinical presentations.
      • However I am well pleased to find that the truth will at length prevail when men have laid aside their prepossessions and prejudices.

Definition of prepossessing in US English:

prepossessing

adjectiveˌpripəˈzɛsɪŋˌprēpəˈzesiNG
  • often with negative Attractive or appealing in appearance.

    (外貌)给人好感的,打动人的;有吸引力的

    he was not a prepossessing sight

    他外表没什么吸引人之处。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In that portrait, now in the Louvre, Chardin looks more conventionally prepossessing: debonair, benign and smiling all over his face.
    • Adams had never been a physically prepossessing man, even in his prime.
    • She was young, but attractive and quite prepossessing.
    • She is neither particularly prepossessing in her appearance nor outwardly warm, as even David admits remembering his first acquaintance with her.
    • I said, trying to score a point: ‘A pair of broken glass is hardly a prepossessing sight, they must have put it away.’
    • He wasn't a very prepossessing sight: his neck barely seemed capable of supporting the weight of his head and his legs curved around in a small ball underneath him.
    • The impressive group of works which forms the core of the exhibition is accompanied by others less prepossessing and of sometimes doubtful relevance.
    • I've just looked at the pictures of the fish, and it looks even less prepossessing than it did in the flesh, so to speak.
    • He is physically prepossessing, with a ‘massive build’ simmering with ‘tremendous, dormant strength’.
    • Utterly naïve and anachronistic it may be, but it's no less prepossessing and pretty for that.
    • While not physically prepossessing and perhaps less obviously glamorous than her contemporaries, she is aging beautifully, and it is a pleasure to see her work.
    • Gap-toothed, bold in face, and of a ruddy complexion, the Wife was no longer prepossessing in appearance, if she ever had been.
    • Flightless, fangless, clawless, slow, and weak, he isn't physically prepossessing.
    • He took a quiet sip, his wide, prepossessing brown eyes scanning Carnon's swiftly and sharply.
    • He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing.
    • Not very prepossessing to look at but this hard, round hairy ball is so versatile you will never look at it the same way again after reading this column.
    Synonyms
    attractive, beautiful, pretty, handsome, good-looking, fetching, striking, pleasing, pleasant, agreeable, appealing, likeable, lovable, amiable, charming, delightful, engaging, inviting, alluring, magnetic, winning, enchanting, captivating, bewitching, fascinating
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