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imposing

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ//
  • United States//ɪmˈpoʊzɪŋ//

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

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of imposepresent participle and gerund of impose

adjective

  1. 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.

Forms

comparative
more imposing
superlative
most imposing
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).