when first seen

1. 1.

   as a first impression

   “at first blush the offer seemed attractive”

   Synonymsat first blush

Questions about when first seen

What does when first seen mean?

when first seen means "as a first impression".

What is another word for when first seen?

Close synonyms include at first blush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is when first seen a common word?

when first seen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.