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interim.noun
an intervening time; interval
interval.noun
a space of time between events or states; intermission;
a space between objects, units, points, or states
intervallic.adjective
illiterate.adjective
having little or no education; especially: unable
to read or write; showing or marked by a lack of familiarity with language
and literature; violating approved patterns of speaking or writing; showing
or marked by a lack of acquaintance with the fundamentals of a particular
field of knowledge
illiterate, illiterateness.nouns
illiterately.adverb
synonym.ignorant
impertinent.adjective
not pertinent; irrelevant; not restrained within
due or proper bounds especially of propriety or good taste (impertinent
curiosity): implies exceeding the bounds of propriety in showing interest
or curiosity or in offering advice (resented their impertinent interference)
impertinently.adverb
synonyms.obstrusive;
officious; meddlesome; intrusive (see just below)
officious
implies the offering of services or attentions that are unwelcome or annoying
(officious friends made the job harder)
meddlesome
stresses
an annoying and usually prying interference in others' affairs (a meddlesome
landlord)
intrusive implies
a tactless or otherwise objectionable thrusting into others' affairs (tried
to be helpful without being intrusive)
implicit.adjective
being without doubt or reserve; unquestioning;
capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed; implied
(an implicit assumption); involved in the nature or essence of something
though not revealed, expressed, or developed; potential; explicit
compare-explicit
implicitness.noun
implicitly.adverb
implicitly.adjective
being without doubt or reserve; unquestioning
implicitness.noun
implicitly.adverb
inadvertent.adjective
not focusing the mind on a matter; inattentive;
unintentional; careless
inadvertently.adverb
infer,
inferred,
inferring,
infers.transitive
verb
to draw as a conclusion from something
assumed
or known; imply;
to conclude from evidence or premises;
conjecture;
to reason from circumstance; surmise;
to lead to as a consequence or conclusion (Socrates argued that a statue
inferred the existence of a sculptor); to hint
intransitive
verb use.to draw inferences; conjecture
inferable.adjective
inferably.adverb
inferrer.noun
indelible.adjective
impossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent
(indelible ink)
indelibility.or.indelibleness.noun
indelibly.adverb
inference.noun
logical
conclusion or deduction
inferential.adjective
of, relating to, or involving inference; derived
or capable of being derived by inference
inferentially.adverb
ingrained.adjective
worked into the grain or fiber; forming a part
of the essence or inmost being; firmly established; deep seated (ingrained
prejudice);
worked deeply into the texture or fiber: (a carpet disfigured by ingrained
dirt)
ingrainedly.adverb
ingrain.transitive
verb
to work indelibly into
the natural texture or mental or moral.constitution
synonym.infuse
irrepressible.adjective
difficult or impossible to control or restrain
(irrepressible laughter)
irrepressibility.or.irrepressibleness.noun
irrepressibly.adverb
imagine, imagined,
imagining,
imagines.transitive
verb
to form a mental picture or image of; to think;
conjecture.(I
imagine you're right); to have a notion
of or about without adequate foundation; fancy.(she
imagines herself to be a true artist)
intransitive verb use.to
employ the imagination; to make a guess; conjecture
imaginer.noun
imaginary.adjective
having existence only in the imagination
imaginarily.adverb
imaginariness.noun
imaginary.noun,
plural.imaginaries
Mathematics.-.of,
relating to, or being the coefficient
of the imaginary unit in a complex number; of, relating to, involving,
or being an imaginary number; involving only a complex number of which
the real part is zero
imagination.noun
the formation of a mental image of something that
is neither perceived
as real nor present to the senses; the mental image so formed; the ability
or tendency to form such images;
the ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power
of the mind; resourcefulness (handled the problems with great imagination)
imaginational.adjective
image.noun
a reproduction of the form of a person or an object,
especially a sculptured likeness; one that closely or exactly resembles
another; a double (he is the image of his uncle); an opinion or concept
of something that is held in the mind; one's character projected to the
public (the image one gives off)
imageless.adjective
initial.adjective
of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning;
first (took the initial step toward reconciliation); designating the first
letter or letters of a word
initial.noun
the first letter of a proper name; initials; the
first letter of each word of a person's complete name considered as a unit
(stationery monogrammed with her initials; the first letter of a word);
a large, often highly decorated letter set at the beginning of a chapter,
verse, or paragraph
initial, initialed.also.initialled,
initialing,
initialling,
initials,
initials.transitive
verbs
to mark or sign with initials, especially for
purposes of authorization or approval
initially.adverb
initialness.noun
initiate, initiated,
initiating,
initiates.transitive
verbs
to set going by taking the first step; begin (initiated
trade with developing nations); begin (the meeting initiated an idea that
brought up feelings of past injustices); to introduce to a new field, interest,
skill, or activity; to admit into membership, as with ceremonies or ritual
initiate.adjective
initiated or admitted, as to membership or a position
of authority
initiate.noun
one who is being or has been initiated; one who
has been introduced to or has attained knowledge in a particular field
initiator.noun
initiation.noun
the act or an instance of initiating; the process
of being initiated; the condition of being initiated;
a ceremony, ritual, test, or period
of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or
office or to knowledge
initiatory.adjective
introductory; initial;
tending or used to initiate
initiative.noun
a beginning or introductory step; an opening move
(took the initiative in trying to solve the problem); the power or ability
to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task; enterprise
and determination; the right and procedure by which citizens can propose
a law by petition and ensure its submission to the electorate
initiative.adjective
of or relating to initiation;
used to initiate;
initiatory
idiom.on
(one's) own initiative; without prompting or direction from others; on
one's own
initiatively.adverb
indolent.adjective
disinclined
to exert oneself; habitually lazy;
conducive
to inactivity or laziness;
lethargic.(humid,
indolent weather makes one feel like just lazing around)
indolently.adverb
indolence.noun
habitual laziness; sloth
infantile.adjective
of or relating to infants or infancy; displaying
or suggesting a lack of maturity; extremely childish
invert, inverted,
inverting,
inverts.verbs
transitive verb use.to
turn inside out or upside down (invert an hourglass); to reverse the position,
order, or condition of (invert the subject and predicate
of a sentence); to subject to inversion; reverse
intransitive verb use.to
be subjected to inversion
invert.noun
something inverted
invertible.adjective
inverse.adjective
reversal; inverted; directly opposite
inversion.noun
the act of inverting;
the state of being inverted; an interchange
of position of adjacent objects
in a sequence.(a
change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its
subject)
Meteorology.-.an
atmospheric condition in which the air temperature rises with increasing
altitude, holding surface air down and preventing dispersion
of pollutants
Genetics.-.a
chromosomal defect in which a segment of the chromosome breaks off and
reattaches in the reverse direction
Chemistry.-.conversion
of a substance in which the direction of optical rotation is reversed,
from the dextrorotatory (clockwise) to the levorotatory (counterclockwise)
or from the levorotatory to the dextrorotatory form
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