Etymology

unimpressive

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Today it means: Lacking the ability to impress, inability to produce an impression. Full definition →

English impressive ← Middle English impressen ← Latin impressus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  9. Proto-Italic*en
  10. Proto-Italic*en-
  11. Latinin-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*per-?
  13. Proto-Indo-European*pres-
  14. Proto-Italic*pres-
  15. Latinpremō
  16. Latinimprimō
  17. Latinimpressus
  18. Middle Englishimpressen
  19. Englishimpress
  20. Englishimpressive
  21. English todayunimpressive

From un- + impressive.

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