impressionistic
IPA: ɪmprɛʃʌnˈɪstɪk
adjective
- Pertaining to or characterized by impressionism.
- Based on subjective reactions or feelings; not systematically researched or arrived at.
- Based on impression rather than reason or fact; based on trying to impress somebody rather than trying for accuracy.
- Impressible.
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Examples of "impressionistic" in Sentences
- Her style could be called impressionistic, but she has a different label.
- On the radio, he presents his observations about the marsh in short, impressionistic essays.
- Among those who favor the so-called impressionistic view are Weir, Twachtman, and Robinson, [27] three landscape-painters of undeniable power.
- The smooth-faced physician represents the buoyant, the romantic, what one might almost call the impressionistic strain in the medical profession.
- They are impressionistic, which is meant to leave each person who sees them to form their own interpretation of what various parts of the windows are saying.
- It has been called impressionistic; Velasquez has been claimed as the father of impressionism as Stendhal was hailed by Zola as the literary progenitor of naturalism.
- I have no knowledge of Marx, and have been criticized by Marxist historians for having a historical approach that they have described as impressionistic and unsystematic.
- It is the prime example of Colette's prose style, which has been described as impressionistic in reference to its precise, sensual style whose economy also strikes the reader as elliptical.
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