IMPRINTS Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

imprints 1 of 2

noun

plural of imprint

as in trails

a mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it found an imprint on the road where something apparently had been dragged

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as in impressions

a perceptible trace left by pressure an imprint of a dinosaur's foot embedded in the limestone

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imprints

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verb

present tense third-person singular of imprint

as in engraves

to produce a vivid impression of that early lesson on the value of honesty permanently imprinted itself on my mind

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Recent Examples of imprints

Noun

Her only callout is that imprints from paw prints, chairs, and table legs set pretty deeply on this rug. —

Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 16 Apr. 2026 His shoes appeared to match imprints left at the scene. —

Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026 Numerous other celebrities have overseen their own imprints in recent years, including Sarah Jessica Parker,John Legend and Questlove. —

ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026 The Universe is simply born with the amount of entropy that the transition from an inflationary state to a hot Big Bang state, a process known as cosmic reheating, imprints upon it. —

Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026 The coin, which breaks with the country’s longstanding tradition of not featuring a living person on its currency, joins a swiftly growing list of other Trumpian imprints on arts and culture, including architectural choices deemed gaudy and garish by experts and laypeople alike. —

Arts Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026 Paperback imprints like Vintage and Picador, as well as a great number of indie press imprints, are putting out new and impressive originals regularly. —

Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026 Bruises on her neck were consistent with muzzle imprints. —

Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 2 Mar. 2026 In Aidarov’s spiral, bodily imprints from hundreds of thousands of migrant workers layer upon one another, the faint depressions of exhausted sleep compressed into a monument that cannot move. —

Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026

Verb

And the custardy texture somehow imprints a more pronounced, wholly pleasant sourness. —

Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026 One paddle literally imprints a word onto your skin. —

Alysia Reiner, Flow Space, 13 Feb. 2026

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Noun

The portion of the trails along the Monongahela River near the Fort Pitt Museum is completely closed off, with access to the museum and Fort Pitt Block House open.

— Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
Before there were dusty trails and stage coach routes and boulevards and freeways, there was the Southern California watershed — the maze of rivers, creeks and washes that sent rain water from the mountains and valleys to the ocean.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026