IMPRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impressed mean? 

• IMPRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective IMPRESSED has 1 sense:

1. deeply or markedly affected or influenced

  Familiarity information: IMPRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deeply or markedly affected or influenced

Similar:

affected (acted upon; influenced)

 Context examples 

The Morses had shown him the best their social position could produce, and he was not impressed by it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No case, however, in which Holmes was engaged has ever illustrated the value of his analytical methods so clearly or has impressed those who were associated with him so deeply.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it was new to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, or to strengthen my confidence in, Mr. Jack Maldon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about young McCarthy’s narrative which struck us both instantly, although they impressed me in his favour and you against him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Either way, your editor will be impressed with your ideas, approach, and individual style.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He impressed me as being a perfectly honest man.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So it was at last impressed upon me that I was there, not to have Wolf Larsen take the initiative, but to take it myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This was a new way of looking at it, and Miller was visibly impressed as he debated it in his mind.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

For his solemnity of the night before had greatly impressed me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)