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Image
  • (n.) An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight
  • (v. t.) To represent or form an image of

    Imaginable
  • (a.) Capable of being imagined

    Imaginary
  • (a.) Existing only in imagination or fancy
  • (n.) An imaginary expression or quantity.

    Imagination
  • (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty

    Imaginative
  • (a.) Given to imagining

    Imagine
  • (v. i.) To form images or conceptions
  • (v. t.) To contrive in purpose

    Imago
  • (n.) An image.

    Imaret
  • (n.) A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.

    Imbed
  • (v. t.) To sink or lay, as in a bed

    Imbibe
  • (v. t.) To drink in

    Imbibition
  • (n.) The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing

    Imbricate
  • (v. t.) To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.

    Imbroglio
  • (n.) A complicated and embarrassing state of things

    Imbrue
  • (v. t.) To wet or moisten

    Imbue
  • (v. t.) To tincture deply

    Imide
  • (n.) A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group

    Imitable
  • (a.) Capble of being imitated or copied.

    Imitate
  • (v. t.) To follow as a pattern, model, or example

    Imitation
  • (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition

    Imitative
  • (a.) Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies
  • (n.) A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance.

    Immaculate
  • (a.) Without stain or blemish

    Immanent
  • (a.) Remaining within

    Immanuel
  • (n.) God with us

    Immaterial
  • (a.) Not consisting of matter

    Immature
  • (a.) Not mature

    Immeasurable
  • (a.) Incapble of being measured

    Immediate
  • (a.) Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency

    Immemorial
  • (a.) Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition

    Immense
  • (a.) Immeasurable

    Immerse
  • (a.) Immersed
  • (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

    Immersion
  • (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists

    Immesh
  • (v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web

    Immigrant
  • (n.) One who immigrates

    Immigrate
  • (v. t.) To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence

    Immigration
  • (n.) The act of immigrating

    Imminent
  • (a.) (With upon) Bent upon

    Immiscible
  • (a.) Not capable of being mixed or mingled.

    Immitigable
  • (a.) Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased.

    Immobile
  • (a.) Incapable of being moved

    Immobilize
  • (v. t.) To make immovable

    Immoderate
  • (a.) Not moderate

    Immodest
  • (a.) Not limited to due bounds

    Immolate
  • (v. t.) To sacrifice

    Immoral
  • (a.) Not moral

    Immortal
  • (a.) Connected with, or pertaining to immortability.
  • (n.) One who will never cease to be

    Immortelle
  • (n.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc

    Immovable
  • (a.) Incapable of being moved
  • (n.) Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees

    Immune
  • (a.) Exempt
  • (n.) One who is immune

    Immunity
  • (a.) Freedom
  • (n.) The state of being insusceptible to poison, the contagion of disease, etc.

    Immure
  • (n.) A wall
  • (v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls

    Immutable
  • (a.) Not mutable

    Imp
  • (n.) An offspring

    Impact
  • (n.) Contact or impression by touch
  • (v. t.) To drive close

    Impair
  • (a.) Not fit or appropriate.
  • (n.) Diminution
  • (v. t.) To grow worse

    Impale
  • (v. t.) To inclose, as with pales or stakes

    Impalpable
  • (a.) Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind

    Impanation
  • (a.) Embodiment in bread

    Impanel
  • (v. t.) To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel

    Impart
  • (n.) To bestow a share or portion of
  • (v. i.) To give a part or share.

    Impassable
  • (a.) Incapable of being passed

    Impasse
  • (n.) An impassable road or way

    Impassible
  • (a.) Incapable of suffering

    Impassion
  • (v.) To move or affect strongly with passion.

    Impassive
  • (a.) Not susceptible of pain or suffering

    Impaste
  • (v. t.) To knead

    Impasto
  • (n.) The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole

    Impatience
  • (n.) The quality of being impatient

    Impatiens
  • (n.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers

    Impatient
  • (a.) Not patient
  • (n.) One who is impatient.

    Impeach
  • (n.) Hindrance
  • (v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety

    Impeccable
  • (a.) Not liable to sin
  • (n.) One who is impeccable

    Impecunious
  • (a.) Not having money

    Impedance
  • (n.) The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current

    Impede
  • (v. t.) To hinder

    Impediment
  • (n.) That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
  • (v. t.) To impede.

    Impel
  • (v. t.) To drive or urge forward or on

    Impend
  • (v. i.) To hang over
  • (v. t.) To pay.

    Impenetrable
  • (a.) Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time

    Impenitent
  • (a.) Not penitent
  • (n.) One who is not penitent.

    Impennate
  • (a.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins.
  • (n.) One of the Impennes.

    Imperative
  • (a.) Expressive of command
  • (n.) The imperative mood

    Imperator
  • (n.) A commander

    Imperceptible
  • (a.) Not perceptible

    Imperceptive
  • (a.) Unable to perceive.

    Imperfect
  • (a.) Not fulfilling its design
  • (n.) The imperfect tense
  • (v. t.) To make imperfect.

    Imperial
  • (a.) Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it
  • (n.) A game at cards differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump

    Imperil
  • (v. t.) To bring into peril

    Imperious
  • (a.) Commanding

    Imperishable
  • (a.) Not perishable

    Imperium
  • (n.) Supreme power

    Impermanent
  • (a.) Not permanent.

    Impermeable
  • (a.) Not permeable

    Impermissible
  • (a.) Not permissible.

    Impersonal
  • (a.) Not personal
  • (n.) That which wants personality

    Impersonate
  • (v. t.) To ascribe the qualities of a person to

    Impertinence
  • (n.) Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances

    Impertinent
  • (a.) Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding
  • (n.) An impertinent person.

    Impervious
  • (a.) Not pervious

    Impetigo
  • (n.) A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever

    Impetrate
  • (a.) Obtained by entreaty.
  • (v. t.) To obtain by request or entreaty.

    Impetuosity
  • (n.) The condition or quality of being impetuous

    Impetuous
  • (a.) Rushing with force and violence

    Impetus
  • (n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion

    Impiety
  • (n.) An impious act

    Impinge
  • (v. t.) To fall or dash against

    Impious
  • (a.) Not pious

    Implacable
  • (a.) Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged

    Implant
  • (v. t.) To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth

    Implausible
  • (a.) Not plausible

    Implead
  • (v. i.) To sue at law.
  • (v. t.) To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court

    Implement
  • (n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use
  • (v. t.) To accomplish

    Implicate
  • (v. t.) To bring into connection with

    Implication
  • (n.) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed

    Implicative
  • (a.) Tending to implicate.

    Implicit
  • (a.) Infolded

    Implied
  • (a.) Virtually involved or included

    Implore
  • (n.) Imploration.
  • (v. i.) To entreat
  • (v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication

    Imploring
  • (a.) That implores

    Implosion
  • (n.) A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted

    Implosive
  • (a.) Formed by implosion.
  • (n.) An implosive sound, an implodent.

    Imply
  • (v. t.) To infold or involve

    Impolite
  • (a.) Not polite

    Impolitic
  • (a.) Not politic

    Imponderable
  • (a.) Not ponderable
  • (n.) An imponderable substance or body

    Import
  • (n.) Importance
  • (v. i.) To signify
  • (v. t.) To be of importance or consequence to

    Impose
  • (n.) A command
  • (v. i.) To practice trick or deception.
  • (v. t.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing

    Imposing
  • (a.) Adapted to impress forcibly
  • (n.) The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet.

    Imposition
  • (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction

    Impossibility
  • (n.) An impossible thing

    Impossible
  • (a.) Not possible
  • (n.) An impossibility.

    Impossibly
  • (adv.) Not possibly.

    Impost
  • (n.) That which is imposed or levied

    Impotent
  • (a.) Not potent
  • (n.) One who is imoitent.

    Impound
  • (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound

    Impoverish
  • (v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of

    Impracticable
  • (a.) Incapable of being used or availed of

    Impractical
  • (a.) Not practical.

    Imprecate
  • (v. t.) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

    Imprecation
  • (n.) The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one

    Impregnable
  • (a.) Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.

    Impregnate
  • (a.) Impregnated
  • (v. i.) To become pregnant.
  • (v. t.) To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation

    Impresa
  • (n.) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.

    Imprescriptible
  • (a.) Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription

    Impress
  • (n.) A device.
  • (v. i.) To be impressed

    Imprest
  • (n.) To advance on loan.
  • (v. t.) A kind of earnest money

    Imprimatur
  • (n.) A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.

    Imprimis
  • (adv.) In the first place

    Imprint
  • (v. t.) To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory

    Imprison
  • (v. t.) To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.

    Improbable
  • (a.) Not probable

    Improbity
  • (n.) Lack of probity

    Impromptu
  • (adv. / a.) Offhand
  • (n.) A piece composed or played at first thought

    Improper
  • (a.) Not according to facts
  • (v. t.) To appropriate

    Impropriate
  • (a.) Put into the hands of a layman
  • (v. i.) To become an impropriator.
  • (v. t.) To appropriate to one's self

    Impropriety
  • (n.) That which is improper

    Improve
  • (v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities
  • (v. t.) To advance or increase by use

    Improvident
  • (a.) Not provident

    Improvisation
  • (n.) That which is improvised

    Improvise
  • (v. i.) To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation
  • (v. t.) To bring about, arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation.

    Imprudence
  • (n.) The quality or state of being imprudent

    Imprudent
  • (a.) Not prudent

    Impudence
  • (n.) The quality of being impudent

    Impudent
  • (a.) Bold, with contempt or disregard

    Impudicity
  • (n.) Immodesty.

    Impugn
  • (v. t.) To attack by words or arguments

    Impulse
  • (n.) A mental force which simply and directly urges to action
  • (v. t.) To impel

    Impulsion
  • (n.) Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind

    Impulsive
  • (a.) Acting momentarily, or by impulse
  • (n.) That which impels or gives an impulse

    Impunity
  • (n.) Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.

    Impure
  • (a.) Defiled by sin or guilt
  • (v. t.) To defile

    Impurity
  • (n.) That which is, or which renders anything, impure

    Impute
  • (v. t.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another

    In
  • (adv.) Not out
  • (n.) A reentrant angle
  • (prep.) The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc
  • (v. t.) To inclose

    Inability
  • (n.) The quality or state of being unable

    Inaccessible
  • (a.) Not accessible

    Inaccuracy
  • (n.) That which is inaccurate or incorrect

    Inaccurate
  • (a.) Not accurate

    Inaction
  • (n.) Want of action or activity

    Inactive
  • (a.) Not active

    Inadequacy
  • (n.) The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient

    Inadequate
  • (a.) Not adequate

    Inadmissible
  • (a.) Not admissible

    Inadvertent
  • (a.) Not turning the mind to a matter

    Inadvisable
  • (a.) Not advisable.

    Inalienable
  • (a.) Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another

    Inalterable
  • (a.) Not alterable

    Inamorata
  • (n.) A woman in love

    Inamorato
  • (n.) A male lover.

    Inane
  • (a.) Without contents
  • (n.) That which is void or empty.

    Inanimate
  • (a.) Not animate
  • (v. t.) To animate.

    Inanition
  • (n.) The condition of being inane

    Inanity
  • (n.) An inane, useless thing or pursuit

    Inapplicable
  • (a.) Not applicable

    Inapposite
  • (a.) Not apposite

    Inappreciable
  • (a.) Not appreciable

    Inapproachable
  • (a.) Not approachable

    Inappropriate
  • (a.) Not instrument (to)

    Inapt
  • (a.) Unapt

    Inarch
  • (v. t.) To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete

    Inarticulate
  • (a.) Incapable of articulating.

    Inattention
  • (n.) Want of attention, or failure to pay attention

    Inattentive
  • (a.) Not attentive

    Inaudible
  • (a.) Not audible

    Inaugural
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration
  • (n.) An inaugural address.

    Inaugurate
  • (a.) Invested with office
  • (v. t.) To begin with good omens.

    Inauguration
  • (n.) The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity

    Inauspicious
  • (a.) Not auspicious

    Inboard
  • (a. & adv.) From without inward

    Inborn
  • (a.) Born in or with

    Inbreathe
  • (v. t.) To infuse by breathing

    Inbred
  • (a.) Bred within

    Inbreed
  • (v. t.) To breed in and in.

    Inc
  • (n.) A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.

    Inca
  • (n.) An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest

    Incendiarism
  • (n.) The act or practice of maliciously setting fires

    Incendiary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property
  • (n.) Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property

    Incense
  • (n.) Also used figuratively.
  • (v. t.) To inflame with anger

    Incensory
  • (n.) The vessel in which incense is burned and offered

    Incentive
  • (a.) Inciting
  • (n.) That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions

    Inception
  • (n.) Beginning

    Inceptive
  • (a.) Beginning
  • (n.) An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.

    Incertitude
  • (n.) Uncertainty

    Incessant
  • (a.) Continuing or following without interruption

    Incest
  • (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law

    Inch
  • (a.) Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness
  • (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc
  • (v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees
  • (v. t.) To deal out by inches

    Incidence
  • (n.) A falling on or upon

    Incident
  • (a.) Coming or happening accidentally
  • (n.) Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.

    Incinerate
  • (v. t.) To burn to ashes

    Incipient
  • (a.) Beginning to be, or to show itself

    Incise
  • (v. t.) To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument

    Incision
  • (n.) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.

    Incisive
  • (a.) Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument

    Incisor
  • (a.) Adapted for cutting
  • (n.) One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw

    Incitation
  • (n.) That which incites to action

    Incite
  • (v. t.) To move to action

    Incivility
  • (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.

    Inclement
  • (a.) Not clement

    Inclinable
  • (a.) Having a propensity of will or feeling

    Incline
  • (n.) An inclined plane
  • (v. t.) To bend

    Inclose
  • (v. t.) To put into harness

    Include
  • (v. t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference

    Inclusion
  • (n.) A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral

    Inclusive
  • (a.) Comprehending the stated limit or extremes

    Incoercible
  • (a.) Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid by pressure

    Incog
  • (adv.) Incognito.

    Incoherent
  • (a.) Not coherent

    Incombustible
  • (a.) Not combustible

    Income
  • (n.) A coming in

    Incoming
  • (a.) Coming in, succeeding, or following, as occupant or possessor
  • (n.) Income

    Incommensurable
  • (a.) Not commensurable
  • (n.) One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.

    Incommensurate
  • (a.) Not commensurate

    Incommode
  • (n.) An inconvenience.
  • (v. t.) To give inconvenience or trouble to

    Incommodious
  • (a.) Tending to incommode

    Incommodity
  • (n.) Inconvenience

    Incommunicable
  • (a.) Not communicable

    Incommunicative
  • (a.) Not communicative

    Incommutable
  • (a.) Not commutable

    Incomparable
  • (a.) Not comparable

    Incompatibility
  • (n.) The quality or state of being incompatible

    Incompatible
  • (a.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines
  • (n.) An incompatible substance

    Incompetent
  • (a.) Not competent

    Incomplete
  • (a.) Not complete

    Incompliant
  • (a.) Not compliant

    Incomprehensible
  • (a.) Not capable of being comprehended or understood

    Incomprehension
  • (n.) Want of comprehension or understanding.

    Incomprehensive
  • (a.) Not comprehensive

    Inconceivable
  • (a.) Not conceivable

    Inconcinnity
  • (n.) Want of concinnity or congruousness

    Inconclusive
  • (a.) Not conclusive

    Incondite
  • (a.) Badly put together

    Incongruent
  • (a.) Incongruous.

    Incongruity
  • (n.) Disagreement of parts

    Incongruous
  • (a.) Not congruous

    Inconsequent
  • (a.) Not following from the premises

    Inconsiderable
  • (a.) Not considerable

    Inconsiderate
  • (a.) Inconsiderable.

    Inconsistency
  • (n.) Absurdity in argument ore narration

    Inconsistent
  • (a.) Not consistent

    Inconsolable
  • (a.) Not consolable

    Inconsonant
  • (a.) Not consonant or agreeing

    Inconspicuous
  • (a.) Not conspicuous or noticeable

    Inconstant
  • (a.) Not constant

    Incontestable
  • (a.) Not contestable

    Incontinent
  • (a.) Not continent
  • (adv.) Incontinently
  • (n.) One who is unchaste.

    Incontrollable
  • (a.) Not controllable

    Incontrovertible
  • (a.) Not controvertible

    Inconvenience
  • (n.) That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness
  • (v. t.) To put to inconvenience

    Inconvenient
  • (a.) Not becoming or suitable

    Inconvertible
  • (a.) Not convertible

    Inconvincible
  • (a.) Not convincible

    Incoordinate
  • (a.) Not coordinate.

    Incoordination
  • (n.) Want of coordination

    Incorporate
  • (a.) Corporate
  • (v. i.) To unite in one body so as to make a part of it
  • (v. t.) To form into a body

    Incorporeal
  • (a.) Existing only in contemplation of law

    Incorporeity
  • (n.) The quality of being incorporeal

    Incorrect
  • (a.) Not accordant with duty or morality

    Incorrigible
  • (a.) Not corrigible
  • (n.) One who is corrigible

    Incorrupt
  • (a.) Not affected with corruption or decay

    Increase
  • (v. i.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc
  • (v. t.) To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.

    Increasingly
  • (adv.) More and more.

    Increate
  • (v. t.) To create within.

    Incredible
  • (a.) Not credible

    Incredulity
  • (n.) The state or quality of being i/credulous

    Incredulous
  • (a.) Incredible

    Increment
  • (n.) An amplification without strict climax,

    Increscent
  • (a.) Increasing

    Incriminate
  • (v. t.) To accuse

    Incrust
  • (v. t.) To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat

    Incubate
  • (v. i. & t.) To sit, as on eggs for hatching

    Incubation
  • (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young

    Incubator
  • (n.) A contrivance for the cultivation of microorganisms by maintaining a suitable temperature

    Incubus
  • (n.) A demon

    Inculcate
  • (v. t.) To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

    Inculpable
  • (a.) Faultless

    Inculpate
  • (v. t.) To blame

    Incult
  • (a.) Untilled

    Incumbency
  • (n.) That which is morally incumbent, or is imposed, as a rule, a duty, obligation, or responsibility

    Incumbent
  • (a.) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else
  • (n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

    Incunabulum
  • (n.) A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch

    Incur
  • (v. i.) To pass
  • (v. t.) To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous

    Incus
  • (n.) An anvil.


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