imposing

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpoʊzɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
• Hyphenation: im‧pos‧ing

Verb

imposing

1. present participle and gerund of impose

Adjective

imposing (comparative more imposing, superlative most imposing)

1. Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity.

   an imposing presence

   an imposing building

   The castle was an imposing sight on the hilltop.

   He had an imposing figure and a deep voice.

   • 1957 September, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 613:

     Considerable remains of that terminus still exist, and it does not appear to have been a very imposing place.

Derived terms

• imposingly
• imposingness
• unimposing

Translations

magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity

• Bulgarian: внушителен (bg) (vnušitelen), импозантен (bg) (impozanten)
• Catalan: imponent, imposant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 壯觀 / 壮观 (zh) (zhuàngguān), 雄偉 / 雄伟 (zh) (xióngwěi)

• Czech: impozantní
• Danish: imposant (da), imponerende, statelig, monumental
• Esperanto: impona
• Finnish: mahtava (fi), näyttävä (fi)
• French: imposant (fr), impressionnant (fr)
• German: imposant (de), beeindruckend (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: σοβαρός (sobarós)

• Hungarian: impozáns (hu)
• Italian: imponente (it)
• Macedonian: впе́чатлив (vpéčatliv), импоза́нтен (impozánten)
• Māori: marutuna
• Polish: imponujący (pl)
• Portuguese: imponente (pt)
• Romanian: impozant (ro), măreț (ro), impunător (ro), falnic (ro)
• Russian: внуши́тельный (ru) (vnušítelʹnyj), импоза́нтный (ru) (impozántnyj), впечатля́ющий (ru) (vpečatljájuščij)
• Spanish: imponente (es)
• Swedish: pampig (sv)