Usually means: Attractive or appealing in appearance.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word prepossessing:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. prepossessing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prepossessing: Merriam-Webster
  3. prepossessing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prepossessing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prepossessing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prepossessing: Vocabulary.com
  7. prepossessing: Wordnik
  8. prepossessing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prepossessing: Wiktionary
  10. prepossessing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prepossessing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prepossessing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prepossessing, prepossessing: Dictionary.com
  14. Prepossessing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. prepossessing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. prepossessing: Rhymezone
  17. prepossessing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. prepossessing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. prepossessing: FreeDictionary.org
  20. prepossessing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. prepossessing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prepossessing: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Causing prejudice.

Similar:
attractive, inviting, taking, appealing, fetching, alluring, sympathetic, likely, favourable, propitious, more...

Opposite:
unattractive, repulsive, ugly, unappealing, unsightly

Adjectives:
least, singularly, first, uncommonly, highest, most, general, wise



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Similar:
attractive, inviting, taking, appealing, fetching, alluring, sympathetic, likely, favourable, propitious, more...

Opposite:
unattractive, repulsive, ugly, unappealing, unsightly

Adjectives:
least, singularly, first, uncommonly, highest, most, general, wise



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