PREPOSSESSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prepossessing mean? 

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

1. creating a favorable impression

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPOSSESSING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Creating a favorable impression

Context example:

strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance

Similar:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

 Context examples 

But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her manners were by no means so elegant as her sister's, but they were much more prepossessing.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She looked at him with great admiration, and even supposed it possible that some people might think him handsomer than his brother, though, in her eyes, his air was more assuming, and his countenance less prepossessing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Miss Crawford found a sister without preciseness or rusticity, a sister's husband who looked the gentleman, and a house commodious and well fitted up; and Mrs. Grant received in those whom she hoped to love better than ever a young man and woman of very prepossessing appearance.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)