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imposing

/im-poh-zing/US // ɪmˈpoʊ zɪŋ //UK // (ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ) //

宏伟的,气势磅礴,雄伟的,气势恢宏

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : very impressive because of great size, stately appearance, dignity, elegance, etc.: Notre Dame, Rheims, and other imposing cathedrals of France.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.impressive
Antonyms

Examples

  • Fernandez needed 2 hours 21 minutes and all the tactics at her disposal for her three-set victory over Sabalenka, who boasts a more powerful game, more experience and a more imposing physique, nearly a half-foot taller.

  • Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.

  • He added, “We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States.”

  • Pyongyang has given the Obama administration no choice but to retaliate now by imposing sanctions or even an embargo.

  • The floor-to-ceiling Texas flag, the single most imposing feature of the room, began to rise.

  • What he fails to realize is that he is imposing the same urban title on his family in retaliation.

  • I was rather awed by his imposing appearance, and advanced timidly to the doors, which were of glass, and pulled the bell.

  • In the center of the river line stood the imposing red sandstone palace of Bahadur Shah, last of the Moguls.

  • The law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.

  • These brilliant results were arrived at after much clamour and argument and imposing procès verbal.

  • The huge engine, the wonderful carriages, the imposing guard, the busy porters and the bustling station.