| governmental | (adjective) relating to or dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state | - |
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| grave | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn |
| gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
| graven | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, incised, inscribed |
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| (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: sculpted, sculptured |
| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| grooved | (adjective) established as if settled into a groove or rut | Synonyms: well-grooved |
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| groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| handwoven | (adjective) made on a handloom | Synonyms: hand-loomed |
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| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| heavenly | (adjective) of or belonging to heaven or god | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: celestial |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: celestial |
| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| hooved | (adjective) having or resembling hoofs | Synonyms: hoofed, ungulate, ungulated |
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| hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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| hungover | (adjective) Suffering the aftereffects of the consumption of alcohol | - |
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| hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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| hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypertensive | (adjective) having abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| hypoactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: underactive |
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| hypotensive | (adjective) having abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| illative | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: inferential |
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| (adjective) expressing or preceding an inference | - |
| (adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: inferential |
| illusive | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusory |
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| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| immoveable | (adjective) not able or intended to be moved | Synonyms: immovable, stabile, unmovable |
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| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
| imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
| implicative | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: suggestive |
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| impoverished | (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: broken, wiped out |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| impressive | (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression | - |
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| (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: telling |
| improved | (adjective) made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing | - |
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| (adjective) become or made better in quality | - |
| (adjective) (of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush | - |
| impulsive | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, whimsical |
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| (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: driving |
| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, madcap, tearaway |
| (adjective) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus | Synonyms: unprompted |
| (adjective) without forethought | - |
| inactive | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: nonoperational |
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| (adjective) not active physically or mentally | - |
| (adjective) (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly | - |
| (adjective) lacking activity; lying idle or unused | - |
| (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: passive |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: dormant |
| (adjective) not exerting influence or change | - |
| (adjective) not engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: motionless, static, still |
| (adjective) (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert | - |
| inadvertent | (adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: accidental |
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| inattentive | (adjective) showing a lack of attention or care | - |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: neglectful |
| inceptive | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inchoative |
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| inchoative | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inceptive |
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| incisive | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
| incitive | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| inclusive | (adjective) including much or everything; and especially including stated limits | - |
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| incommunicative | (adjective) not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions | Synonyms: uncommunicative |
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| incomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: noncomprehensive |
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| inconclusive | (adjective) not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| incontrovertible | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: demonstrable |
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| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: irrefutable, positive |
| inconvenient | (adjective) not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) not conveniently timed | - |
| inconvertible | (adjective) used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value | Synonyms: unconvertible, unexchangeable |
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| (adjective) not capable of being changed into something else | Synonyms: untransmutable |
| incorporative | (adjective) growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories | - |
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| inculpative | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpatory |
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| incursive | (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: invading, invasive |
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| incurved | (adjective) bent into or having an inward curve | Synonyms: incurvate |
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| indecisive | (adjective) not definitely settling something | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by lack of decision and firmness | - |
| (adjective) not clearly defined | - |
| indicative | (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: declarative |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
| inducive | (adjective) inducing or influencing; leading on | Synonyms: inductive |
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| inductive | (adjective) of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion | - |
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| (adjective) arising from inductance | - |
| (adjective) inducing or influencing; leading on | Synonyms: inducive |
| ineffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, uneffective |
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| (adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffectual, unable |
| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: inefficient |
| inexpensive | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: cheap |
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| inexpressive | (adjective) not expressive | - |
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| infective | (adjective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection | Synonyms: infectious |
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| (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: morbific, pathogenic |
| informative | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informatory |
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| (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, illuminating |
| (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: instructive |
| initiative | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiatory, maiden |
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| innovative | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: groundbreaking, innovational |
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| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, modern |
| inoffensive | (adjective) giving no offense | - |
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| (adjective) not causing anger or annoyance | Synonyms: unoffending |
| inoperative | (adjective) not working or taking effect | - |
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| inquisitive | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: questioning, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) inquiring or appearing to inquire | - |
| inscriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an inscription | - |
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| insensitive | (adjective) not responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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| (adjective) deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive | - |
| insolvent | (adjective) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations | - |
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| instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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| integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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| (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
| intensive | (adjective) of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor | - |
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| (adjective) tending to give force or emphasis | - |
| (adjective) characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form | - |
| interactive | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: synergistic |
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| (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactional |
| interoceptive | (adjective) of or relating to interoception | - |
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| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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| interrogative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogatory |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood | - |
| intervening | (adjective) occurring or falling between events or points in time | - |
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| intervertebral | (adjective) pertaining to the space between two vertebrae | - |
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| interwoven | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interlocking |
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| intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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| intravenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: endovenous |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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| introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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| introverted | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introspective, self-examining |
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| introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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| introvertive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introversive |
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| intrusive | (adjective) tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) | - |
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| (adjective) thrusting inward | - |
| (adjective) of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock | - |
| intuitive | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: nonrational, visceral |
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| (adjective) spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency | - |
| invasive | (adjective) marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision | - |
| (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing |
| (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invading |
| inventive | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: imaginative |
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| inverse | (adjective) opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
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| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: reverse |
| invertebrate | (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: spineless |
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| inverted | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: anatropous |
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| (adjective) being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed | Synonyms: upside-down |
| invertible | (adjective) having an additive or multiplicative inverse | - |
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| investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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