| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| imaginable | adjective | Capable of being imagined; conceivable. |
| imbankment | noun | The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment. |
| imbannered | adjective | Having banners. |
| imbecility | noun | The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. |
| imbenching | noun | A raised work like a bench. |
| imbibition | noun | The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons. |
| imbittered | imp. & past participle | of Imbitter |
| imbitterer | noun | One who, or that which, imbitters. |
| imbordered | imp. & past participle | of Imborder |
| imbosoming | present participle & vb. noun | of Imbosom |
| imbricated | adjective | Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile., Lying over each other in regular order, so as to “break joints,” like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation., In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern. |
| imbroccata | noun | A hit or thrust. |
| imbroglios | plural | of Imbroglio |
| imbruement | noun | The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued. |
| imitatress | noun | A woman who is an imitator. |
| immaculate | adjective | Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure. |
| immanacled | imp. & past participle | of Immanacle |
| immanation | noun | A flowing or entering in; — opposed to emanation. |
| immanifest | adjective | Not manifest. |
| immaterial | adjective | Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied., Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not. |
| immaturely | adverb | In an immature manner. |
| immaturity | noun | The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness. |
| immeasured | adjective | Immeasurable. |
| immemorial | adjective | Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial. |
| immensible | adjective | Immeasurable. |
| immeritous | adjective | Undeserving. |
| immersable | adjective | See Immersible. |
| immersible | adjective | Capable of being immersed., Not capable of being immersed. |
| immetrical | adjective | Not metrical or rhythmical. |
| immigrated | imp. & past participle | of Immigrate |
| imminently | adverb | In an imminent manner. |
| imminution | noun | A lessening; diminution; decrease. |
| immiscible | adjective | Not capable of being mixed or mingled. |
| immobility | noun | The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state. |
| immobilize | verb t. | To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages. |
| immoderacy | noun | Immoderateness. |
| immoderate | adjective | Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. |
| immodestly | adverb | In an immodest manner. |
| immolating | present participle & vb. noun | of Immolate |
| immolation | noun | The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed., That which is immolated; a sacrifice. |
| immorality | noun | The state or quality of being immoral; vice., An immoral act or practice. |
| immortally | adverb | In an immortal manner. |
| immortelle | noun | A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting. |
| immunities | plural | of Immunity |
| immurement | noun | The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment. |
| immutation | noun | Change; alteration; mutation. |
| impackment | noun | The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice. |
| impairment | noun | The state of being impaired; injury. |
| impalement | noun | The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled., An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed., That which hedges in; inclosure., The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3. |
| impalpable | adjective | Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch., Not material; intangible; incorporeal., Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions. |
| impalpably | adverb | In an impalpable manner. |
| impanating | present participle & vb. noun | of Impanate |
| impanation | adjective | Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ’s material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; — distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation. |
| impanelled | of Impanel | |
| impaneling | of Impanel | |
| imparadise | verb t. | To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. |
| imparlance | noun | Mutual discourse; conference., Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, or answer to the allegations of the opposite party., Hence, the delay or continuance of a suit. |
| imparsonee | adjective | Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession., A clergyman so inducted. |
| impartance | noun | Impartation. |
| impartible | adjective | Capable of being imparted or communicated., Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate. |
| impartment | noun | The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed. |
| impassable | adjective | Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. |
| impassible | adjective | Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation. |
| impatience | noun | The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. |
| impatiency | noun | Impatience. |
| impeaching | present participle & vb. noun | of Impeach |
| impearling | present participle & vb. noun | of Impearl |
| impeccable | adjective | Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong., One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness. |
| impeccancy | noun | Sinlessness. |
| impediment | noun | That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect., To impede. |
| impedition | noun | A hindering; a hindrance. |
| impeditive | adjective | Causing hindrance; impeding. |
| impendence | noun | Alt. of Impendency |
| impendency | noun | The state of impending; also, that which impends. |
| impenitent | adjective | Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart., One who is not penitent. |
| impeopling | present participle & vb. noun | of Impeople |
| imperative | adjective | Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders., Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order., Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood., The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood. |
| imperatory | adjective | Imperative. |
| imperdible | adjective | Not destructible. |
| imperially | adverb | In an imperial manner., Imperial power. |
| imperilled | of Imperil | |
| imperiling | present participle & vb. noun | of Imperil |
| impersonal | adjective | Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality., That which wants personality; specifically (Gram.), an impersonal verb. |
| impervious | adjective | Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air. |
| impetrable | adjective | Capable of being obtained or moved by petition. |
| impetrated | imp. & past participle | of Impetrate |
| impictured | adjective | Pictured; impressed. |
| impinguate | verb t. | To fatten; to make fat. |
| imppiteous | adjective | Pitiless; cruel. |
| implacable | adjective | Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince., Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable. |
| implacably | adverb | In an implacable manner. |
| implanting | present participle & vb. noun | of Implant |
| impleading | present participle & vb. noun | of Implead |
| impleasing | adjective | Unpleasing; displeasing. |
| implicated | imp. & past participle | of Implicate |
| implicitly | adverb | In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence., By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of God is implicitly to deny his existence. |
| implorator | noun | One who implores. |
| impoisoner | noun | A poisoner. |
| impolarily | adverb | Alt. of Impolarly |
| imporosity | noun | The state or quality of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness. |
| importable | adjective | Capable of being imported., Not to be endured; insupportable; intolerable. |
| importance | noun | The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance., Subject; matter., Import; meaning; significance., Importunity; solicitation. |
| importancy | noun | Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important. |
| importless | adjective | Void of meaning. |
| importunee | adjective | Inopportune; unseasonable., Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. |
| importuned | imp. & past participle | of Importune |
| importuner | noun | One who importunes. |
| importuous | adjective | Without a port or harbor. |
| imposement | noun | Imposition. |
| imposingly | adverb | In an imposing manner. |
| imposition | noun | The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like., That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax., An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment., An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture., The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc., The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4. |
| impossible | adjective | Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible., An impossibility. |
| impossibly | adverb | Not possibly. |
| imposthume | noun | A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess., Same as Imposthumate. |
| impostress | noun | Alt. of Impostrix |
| impostrous | noun | Characterized by imposture; deceitful. |
| impostured | adjective | Done by imposture. |
| impotently | adverb | In an impotent manner. |
| impounding | present participle & vb. noun | of Impound |
| impoundage | noun | The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded., The fee or fine for impounding. |
| impoverish | verb t. | To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families., To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land. |
| imprecated | imp. & past participle | of Imprecate |
| impregnant | noun | That which impregnates., Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile. |
| impregnate | verb t. | To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young., To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate., To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue., To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore., To become pregnant., Impregnated; made prolific. |
| imprenable | adjective | Impregnable. |
| impresario | noun | The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company. |
| impressing | present participle & vb. noun | of Impress |
| impression | noun | The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence., That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without., That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon., Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern., An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief., Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery., The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time., In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like., A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like. |
| impressive | adjective | Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene., Capable of being impressed. |
| impressure | noun | Dent; impression. |
| impresting | present participle & vb. noun | of Imprest |
| imprimatur | noun | A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published. |
| imptrinted | imp. & past participle | of Imprint |
| imprinting | present participle & vb. noun | of Imprint |
| imprisoned | imp. & past participle | of Imprison |
| imprisoner | noun | One who imprisons. |
| improbable | adjective | Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. |
| improlific | adjective | Not prolific. |
| improperia | noun pl. | A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; — sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. |
| improperly | adverb | In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. |
| improperty | noun | Impropriety. |
| improvable | adjective | Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities., Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous. |
| improvided | adjective | Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. |
| improvised | imp. & past participle | of Improvise |
| improviser | noun | One who improvises. |
| imprudence | noun | The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence. |
| impudently | adverb | In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly. |
| impudicity | noun | Immodesty. |
| impugnable | adjective | Capable of being impugned; that may be gainsaid. |
| impugnment | noun | The act of impugning, or the state of being impugned. |
| impuissant | adjective | Weak; impotent; feeble. |
| impunctate | adjective | Not punctuate or dotted. |
| impunctual | adjective | Not punctual. |
| impuration | noun | Defilement; obscuration. |
| impureness | noun | The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. |
| impurpling | present participle & vb. noun | of Impurple |
| imputation | The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged., Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation., A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ., Opinion; intimation; hint. | |
| imputative | adjective | Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed. |