 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
imposing
adjective
1: impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing
residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen
sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" [syn: {baronial},
{noble}, {stately}]
2: 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}, {magisterial}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impose \Im*pose"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Imposed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Imposing}.] [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place.
See {Pose}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose
Within a wicker basket. --Chapman.
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.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide.
--Shak.
Death is the penalty imposed. --Milton.
Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws. --Waller.
3. (Eccl.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of
confirmation and ordination.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, adjective
1. Laying as a duty; enjoining.
2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as,
an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. ''Large and
imposing edifices.'' --Bp. Hobart.
3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, noun (Print.)
The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a
sheet. See {Impose}, verb (used with an object), 4.
{Imposing stone} (Print.), the stone on which the pages or
columns of types are imposed or made into forms; -- called
also {imposing table}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "imposing":
Babylonian, Corinthian, adipose, aristocratic, arty, august,
awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, baronial, beefy, big, big-bellied,
bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky,
commanding, corpulent, courtly, deluxe, dignified, distended,
dumpy, earnest, effective, elaborate, elegant, extravagant, fancy,
fat, fatal, fateful, fattish, fine, fleshy, formidable, full,
glorious, grand, grandiose, grave, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty,
high, hippy, imperial, impressive, kingly, lordly, lusty,
luxurious, magisterial, magnificent, majestic, meaty, moving,
noble, obese, overblown, overweight, palatial, paunchy, plump,
plush, podgy, portentous, portly, posh, potbellied, princely,
proud, pudgy, puffy, pursy, queenly, regal, ritzy, roly-poly,
rotund, royal, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, sounding,
splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, square, squat, squatty,
stalwart, stately, statuesque, stocky, stout, strapping, sumptuous,
superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, swollen,
thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, venerable, weighty,
well-fed, worthy
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