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- ichthyic adj
- Fish-like
- ichthyology n
- The branch of zoology that treats of fishes
- ichthyosaurs n
- A fossil reptile
- icily adv
- Frigidly
- iciness n
- The state of being icy
- icon n
- An image or likeness
- iconoclast n
- An image-breaker
- idealize v
- To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard
- idiom n
- A use of words peculiar to a particular language
- idiosyncrasy n
- A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual
- idolize v
- To regard with inordinate love or admiration
- ignoble adj
- Low in character or purpose
- ignominious adj
- Shameful
- Iliad n
- A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy
- illegal adj
- Not according to law
- illegible adj
- Undecipherable
- illegitimate adj
- Unlawfully begotten
- illiberal adj
- Stingy
- illicit adj
- Unlawful
- illimitable adj
- Boundless
- illiterate adj
- Having little or no book-learning
- ill-natured adj
- Surly
- illogical adj
- Contrary to the rules of sound thought
- illuminant n
- That which may be used to produce light
- illuminate v
- To supply with light
- illumine v
- To make bright or clear
- illusion n
- An unreal image presented to the senses
- illusive adj
- Deceptive
- illusory adj
- Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance
- imaginable adj
- That can be imagined or conceived in the mind
- imaginary adj
- Fancied
- imbibe v
- To drink or take in
- imbroglio n
- A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife
- imbrue v
- To wet or moisten
- imitation n
- That which is made as a likeness or copy
- imitator n
- One who makes in imitation
- immaculate adj
- Without spot or blemish
- immaterial adj
- Of no essential consequence
- immature adj
- Not full-grown
- immeasurable adj
- Indefinitely extensive
- immense adj
- Very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity
- immerse v
- To plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid
- immersion n
- The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid
- immigrant n
- A foreigner who enters a country to settle there
- immigrate v
- To come into a country or region from a former habitat
- imminence n
- Impending evil or danger
- imminent adj
- Dangerous and close at hand
- immiscible adj
- Separating, as oil and water
- immoral adj
- Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices
- immortalize v
- To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time
- immovable adj
- Steadfast
- immune adj
- Exempt, as from disease
- immutable adj
- Unchangeable
- impair v
- To cause to become less or worse
- impalpable adj
- Imperceptible to the touch
- impartial adj
- Unbiased
- impassable adj
- That can not be passed through or over
- impassible adj
- Not moved or affected by feeling
- impassive adj
- Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling
- impatience n
- Unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things
- impeccable adj
- Blameless
- impecunious adj
- Having no money
- impede v
- To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of
- impel v
- To drive or urge forward
- impend v
- To be imminent
- imperative adj
- Obligatory
- imperceptible adj
- Indiscernible
- imperfectible adj
- That can not be perfected
- imperil v
- To endanger
- imperious adj
- Insisting on obedience
- impermissible adj
- Not permissible
- impersonal adj
- Not relating to a particular person or thing
- impersonate v
- To appear or act in the character of
- impersuadable adj
- Unyielding
- impertinence n
- Rudeness
- imperturbable adj
- Calm
- impervious adj
- Impenetrable
- impetuosity n
- Rashness
- impetuous adj
- Impulsive
- impetus n
- Any impulse or incentive
- impiety n
- Irreverence toward God
- impious adj
- Characterized by irreverence or irreligion
- implausible adj
- Not plausible
- impliable adj
- Capable of being inferred
- implicate v
- To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
- implicit adj
- Implied
- imply v
- To signify
- impolitic adj
- Inexpedient
- importation n
- The act or practice of bringing from one country into another
- importunate adj
- Urgent in character, request, or demand
- importune v
- To harass with persistent demands or entreaties
- impotent adj
- Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual
- impoverish v
- To make indigent or poor
- impracticable adj
- Not feasible
- impregnable adj
- That can not be taken by assault
- impregnate v
- To make pregnant
- impromptu n
- Anything done or said on the impulse of the moment
- improper adj
- Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming
- impropriety n
- The state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate
- improvident adj
- Lacking foresight or thrift
- improvise v
- To do anything extemporaneously or offhand
- imprudent adj
- Heedless
- impudence n
- Insolent disrespect
- impugn v
- To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations
- impulsion n
- Impetus
- impulsive adj
- Unpremeditated
- impunity n
- Freedom from punishment
- impure adj
- Tainted
- impute v
- To attribute
- inaccessible adj
- Difficult of approach
- inaccurate adj
- Not exactly according to the facts
- inactive adj
- Inert
- inadequate adj
- Insufficient
- inadmissible adj
- Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony
- inadvertent adj
- Accidental
- inadvisable adj
- Unadvisable
- inane adj
- Silly
- inanimate adj
- Destitute of animal life
- inapprehensible adj
- Not to be understood
- inapt adj
- Awkward or slow
- inarticulate adj
- Speechless
- inaudible adj
- That can not be heard
- inborn adj
- Implanted by nature
- inbred adj
- Innate
- incandescence n
- The state of being white or glowing with heat
- incandescent adj
- White or glowing with heat
- incapacitate v
- To deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification
- incapacity n
- Want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage
- incarcerate v
- To imprison
- incendiary n
- Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively
- incentive n
- That which moves the mind or inflames the passions
- inception n
- The beginning
- inceptive adj
- Beginning
- incessant adj
- Unceasing
- inchmeal adv
- Piecemeal
- inchoate adj
- Incipient
- inchoative n
- That which begins, or expresses beginning
- incidence n
- Casual occurrence
- incident n
- A happening in general, especially one of little importance
- incidentally adv
- Without intention
- incinerate v
- To reduce to ashes
- incipience n
- Beginning
- incipient adj
- Initial
- incisor n
- A front or cutting tooth
- incite v
- To rouse to a particular action
- incitement n
- That which moves to action, or serves as an incentive or stimulus
- incoercible adj
- Incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled
- incoherence n
- Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc
- incoherent adj
- Not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements, or details
- incombustible adj
- That can not be burned
- incomparable adj
- Matchless
- incompatible adj
- Discordant
- incompetence n
- General lack of capacity or fitness
- incompetent adj
- Not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose
- incomplete adj
- Lacking some element, part, or adjunct necessary or required
- incomprehensible adj
- Not understandable
- incompressible adj
- Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure
- inconceivable adj
- Incomprehensible
- incongruous adj
- Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion
- inconsequential adj
- Valueless
- inconsiderable adj
- Small in quantity or importance
- inconsistent adj
- Contradictory
- inconstant adj
- Changeable
- incontrovertible adj
- Indisputable
- inconvenient adj
- Interfering with comfort or progress
- indefensible adj
- Untenable
- indefinitely adv
- In a vague or uncertain way
- indelible adj
- That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed
- indescribable adj
- That can not be described
- indestructible adj
- That can not be destroyed
- indicant adj
- That which points out
- indicator n
- One who or that which points out
- indict v
- To find and declare chargeable with crime
- indigence n
- Poverty
- indigenous adj
- Native
- indigent adj
- Poor
- indigestible adj
- Not digestible, or difficult to digest
- indigestion n
- Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment
- indignant adj
- Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness
- indignity n
- Unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment
- indiscernible adj
- Not perceptible
- indiscreet adj
- Lacking wise judgment
- indiscriminate adj
- Promiscuous
- indispensable adj
- Necessary or requisite for the purpose
- indistinct adj
- Vague
- indivertible adj
- That can not be turned aside
- indivisible adj
- Not separable into parts
- indolence n
- Laziness
- indolent adj
- Habitually inactive or idle
- indomitable adj
- Unconquerable
- induct v
- To bring in
- indulgence n
- The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another
- indulgent adj
- Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care
- inebriate v
- To intoxicate
- inedible adj
- Not good for food
- ineffable adj
- Unutterable
- inefficient adj
- Not accomplishing an intended purpose
- inefficiency n
- That which does not accomplish an intended purpose
- ineligible adj
- Not suitable to be selected or chosen
- inept adj
- Not fit or suitable
- inert adj
- Inanimate
- inestimable adj
- Above price
- inevitable adj
- Unavoidable
- inexcusable adj
- Not to be justified
- inexhaustible adj
- So large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted, or spent
- inexorable adj
- Unrelenting
- inexpedient adj
- Unadvisable
- inexpensive adj
- Low-priced
- inexperience n
- Lack of or deficiency in experience
- inexplicable adj
- Such as can not be made plain
- inexpressible adj
- Unutterable
- inextensible adj
- Of unchangeable length or area
- infallible adj
- Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement
- infamous adj
- Publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime
- infamy n
- Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation
- inference n
- The derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law
- infernal adj
- Akin to or befitting hell or its occupants
- infest v
- To be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble, or danger
- infidel n
- One who denies the existence of God
- infidelity n
- Disloyalty
- infinite adj
- Measureless
- infinity n
- Boundless or immeasurable extension or duration
- infirm adj
- Lacking in bodily or mental strength
- infirmary n
- A place for the reception or treatment of the sick
- infirmity n
- A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw
- inflammable adj
- Easily set on fire or excited
- inflammation n
- A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain
- inflexible adj
- That can not be altered or varied
- influence n
- Ability to sway the will of another
- influential adj
- Having the power to sway the will of another
- influx n
- Infusion
- infrequence n
- Rareness
- infrequent adj
- Uncommon
- infringe v
- To trespass upon
- infuse v
- To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities
- infusion n
- The act of imbuing, or pouring in
- ingenious adj
- Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement
- ingenuity n
- Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating
- ingenuous adj
- Candid, frank, or open in character or quality
- inglorious adj
- Shameful
- ingraft v
- To set or implant deeply and firmly
- ingratiate v
- To win confidence or good graces for oneself
- ingratitude n
- Insensibility to kindness
- ingredient n
- Component
- inherence n
- The state of being permanently existing in something
- inherent adj
- Intrinsic
- inhibit v
- To hold back or in
- inhospitable adj
- Not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously
- inhuman adj
- Savage
- inhume v
- To place in the earth, as a dead body