MEANING
1. To communicate information, knowledge, or understanding to someone else.
2. To give something a particular quality, feeling, color, or taste.
Use it for
describing knowledge passed from one person to another; showing information revealed deliberately; discussing how a narrative gives readers necessary information; distinguishing communication from proof of truthSeparates communicating information from giving something a perceptible quality, useful for controlling exposition and atmosphere. Writing functions: Description / Communicated influence.
Words that belong together
- impart knowledge
- impart information
- impart wisdom
On the page
The scene imparts the necessary information through an argument rather than a speech.
She imparted the news without the slightest change in expression.
The amber glass imparted a false warmth to the empty room.
A slight delay before each answer imparted a sense of unease to the conversation.
Word forms
- Base
- impart
- Past tense
- imparted
- Past participle
- imparted
- Present participle
- imparting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- impart
- Present continuous
- am/is/are imparting
- Present perfect
- have/has imparted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been imparting
- Past
- imparted
- Past continuous
- was/were imparting
- Past perfect
- had imparted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been imparting
- Future
- will impart
- Future continuous
- will be imparting
- Future perfect
- will have imparted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been imparting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive verb: impart; imparts; imparted; imparted; imparting. Future: will impart. Usual pattern: impart information or a quality to someone or something. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
Practice this word in a sentenceYour margin notes
Keep a thought for later. Sign in to save privately.