"prepossessing" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more prepossessing",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most prepossessing",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prepossessing (comparative more prepossessing, superlative most prepossessing)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a prepossessing manner",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 15",
          "text": "I am a great advocate for timidity—and I am sure one does not often meet with it.—But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 3, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
          "text": "He was a frank, prepossessing fellow, but I saw that he could add nothing to his original account.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48",
          "text": "The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive"
      ],
      "id": "en-prepossessing-en-adj-czM41DSp",
      "links": [
        [
          "invite",
          "invite"
        ],
        [
          "favor",
          "favor"
        ],
        [
          "confidence",
          "confidence"
        ],
        [
          "esteem",
          "esteem"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ],
        [
          "attractive",
          "attractive"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "privlekatelen",
          "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
          "word": "привлекателен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "predrazpolagašt",
          "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
          "word": "предразполагащ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
          "word": "aangenaam"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prijátnyj",
          "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "прия́тный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "raspolagájuščij",
          "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "располага́ющий"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Causing prejudice."
      ],
      "id": "en-prepossessing-en-adj-t2V-xYt6",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Causing prejudice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prepossessing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more prepossessing",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most prepossessing",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prepossessing (comparative more prepossessing, superlative most prepossessing)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a prepossessing manner",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 15",
          "text": "I am a great advocate for timidity—and I am sure one does not often meet with it.—But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 3, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
          "text": "He was a frank, prepossessing fellow, but I saw that he could add nothing to his original account.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48",
          "text": "The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "invite",
          "invite"
        ],
        [
          "favor",
          "favor"
        ],
        [
          "confidence",
          "confidence"
        ],
        [
          "esteem",
          "esteem"
        ],
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ],
        [
          "attractive",
          "attractive"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Causing prejudice."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Causing prejudice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "privlekatelen",
      "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
      "word": "привлекателен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predrazpolagašt",
      "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
      "word": "предразполагащ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
      "word": "aangenaam"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prijátnyj",
      "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "прия́тный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "raspolagájuščij",
      "sense": "tending to invite favour; attractive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "располага́ющий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prepossessing"
}