prepossessing
/priːpəˈzɛsɪŋ
/adjective [often with negative]
Attractive or appealing in appearance: he was not a prepossessing sight...
- She was young, but attractive and quite prepossessing.
- She is neither particularly prepossessing in her appearance nor outwardly warm, as even David admits remembering his first acquaintance with her.
- Gap-toothed, bold in face, and of a ruddy complexion, the Wife was no longer prepossessing in appearance, if she ever had been.
Synonyms
attractive, beautiful, pretty, handsome, good-looking, fetching, striking, pleasing, pleasant, agreeable, appealing, likeable, lovable, amiable, charming, delightful, engaging, inviting, alluring, magnetic, winning, enchanting, captivating, bewitching, fascinating
US informal on fleek
dated taking
archaic fair
Derivatives
prepossession
- Subjective analysis always leads to flawed determination due to the inherent inability to view things apart from personal prejudices and dogmatic prepossessions.
- However I am well pleased to find that the truth will at length prevail when men have laid aside their prepossessions and prejudices.
- Such a prepossession serves to vitiate all of Freud's subsequent clinical presentations.
- at intervals
- -ation
- at issue
- at it
- at its (or someone's) worst
- Ativan
- -ative
- Atkins diet
- Atkinson, Sir Harry
- ATL
- Atlanta
- Atlantan
- Atlantean
- atlantes
- Atlantic
- Atlantic, Battle of the
- Atlantic Charter
- Atlantic City
- Atlantic halibut
- Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
- Atlanticism
- Atlanticist
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantic Provinces
- Atlantic ridley