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impressionistic

UK/ɪmˌpɹɛ.ʃəˈnɪ.stɪk/US/ɪmˌpɹɛ.ʃəˈnɪ.stɪk/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,072 of 15,258leans written

Impressionistic means giving a general feel rather than exact detail. An impressionistic account.

It is praise for a sketch and a criticism of a report. An impressionistic summary is often more useful than a precise one that nobody reads.

Claude Monet · Public domain

Definitions of impressionistic

  1. 1adjectiveimpressionisticGiving a general feel rather than exact detail.C2

    “The impressionistic evidence was the only evidence there was.”

impressionistic is a quality.

Where it comes from

From impressionist + -ic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

impressionistic in the wild

  • In recent years, the Diana has been revived and marketed by Lomography as a tool for producing soft-focus, impressionistic photographs reminiscent of early 20th-century Pictorialist art photography.

    Diana (camera)

  • Peter Edwards and Gunvor Edwards were two Swedish-English impressionistic artists known for illustrating several of The Railway Series books by the Rev.

    Peter and Gunvor Edwards

  • George Davison was an English photographer, a proponent of impressionistic photography, a co-founder of the Linked Ring Brotherhood of British artists and a managing director of Kodak UK.

    George Davison (photographer)

  • The painting, a relatively late work by Hogarth, is one of several in which he experimented with a loose, almost impressionistic style comparable to the work of Fragonard.

    The Shrimp Girl

  • "Chelsea Bridge" is an impressionistic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn in 1941.

    Chelsea Bridge (song)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.