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Synonyms for prepossessing

  • adjective

Most common

winning attractive fascinating engaging

All synonyms

Adjective

attractive, taking, winning, fascinating, engaging, charming, inviting, pleasing, captivating, enticing, alluring, fetching, bewitching, delightful, tempting, siren, seductive, enchanting, enthralling, winsome, witching, entrancing

Antonyms

unattractive, repulsive

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive

Example sentences

  • winning I thought we were going to be on the winning side.
  • attractive The position carries with it an attractive salary.
  • fascinating It was a fascinating story, and he told it well.
  • engaging Hers was an engaging, emotional and intense story.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
prepossessingsteady
winningrising
attractivesteady
fascinatingrising
engagingrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
siren2
6 letters
taking2
7 letters
winning2, winsome2
8 letters
engaging3, charming2, inviting3, pleasing2, tempting2, enticing3, alluring3, fetching2, witching2
9 letters
seductive3
10 letters
attractive3, delightful3, enchanting3, bewitching, entrancing
11 letters
fascinating4, captivating4, enthralling

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (siren2 = 2 syllables).