prepossessing

Etymology

adj

  1. Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive
    a prepossessing manner
    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. 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 15
    He was a frank, prepossessing fellow, but I saw that he could add nothing to his original account. 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 3, in The Whisperer in Darkness
    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. 1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48
  2. (archaic) Causing prejudice.

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