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If a person, a face, a manner, or even a place is prepossessing, they look attractive or pleasant — they give you a good feeling before you know them well. The older idea hiding in the word is that they take hold of you first: your eyes and your heart are already on their side. Though actually, modern English uses this far more often with not. A not very prepossessing man is a polite, slightly way to say he does not look appealing. Young speakers rarely choose it; they say good-looking, pleasant, or, more , not attractive. Keep it for stories and careful writing. It is about first appearance, not about whether someone is kind, and not about owning things.
討喜的、模樣討人喜歡的（較書面；否定時接近「其貌不揚」）
組成From prepossess + -ing. Prepossess first meant to take land beforehand, then to fill someone's mind with a feeling beforehand, then to make someone like a person or thing from the start. The -ing here makes an adjective: giving that first good feeling.
同家族的字
- prepossessthe older verb: to fill someone with a feeling beforehand
- possessthe base verb to have or to own, which prepossess is built on
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prepossessingadj
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Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive
- "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."
- Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
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archaicCausing prejudice.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。