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Spring Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

prepossessing

In my dectionary the word prepossessing means -interesting, noticeable, attractive.

Can the word "prepossessing" be used to describe ideas, thoughts, comments, discovery, research, project...

Thank you

Hope
  

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prepossessing interesting, noticeable or attractive: He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person. The box didn't look very prepossessing, but the necklace inside was beautiful. You can have interesting ideas.

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  • prepossessing interesting, noticeable or attractive: He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.
  • The box didn't look very prepossessing, but the necklace inside was beautiful.
  • You can have interesting ideas.
  • Then I think you can have prepossesing ideas.
  • Why not with the other words that you wrote.
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prepossessing
interesting, noticeable or attractive:
He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.
The box didn't look very prepossessing, but the necklace inside was beautiful.

You can have interesting ideas.

Then I think you can have prepossesing ideas. Why not with the other words that you wrote.

I've foud that word in British English Dictionary. In
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prepossessing

adjective
interesting, noticeable or attractive:
He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.
The box didn't look very prepossessing, but the necklace inside was beautiful.

I think you can.

She didn't have interesting ideas.

She didn't have prepossessing ideas.

Why not with the other words you wrote.

Just you
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I have never heard of this word before. It certainly is not a common word, at least not here in the U.S.

From Cambridge:
prepossessing http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=62511&ph=on
adjective
interesting, noticeable or attractive
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I came acrss the word "prepossessing" a number of times while reading "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. Each time this word was used in conection with someone's appearance.

Hope
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Well that explains it. No question Mr. James was a gifted writer. But a lot of the words he used in his works are not used in everyday conversation these days.
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