| insensate | (adjective) devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation | Synonyms: insentient |
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| (adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, cold, inhuman |
| insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
| intemperate | (adjective) excessive in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, heavy |
| intercollegiate | (adjective) used of competition between colleges or universities | - |
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| intermediate | (adjective) lying between two extremes in time or space or state | - |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: average, medium |
| interstate | (adjective) involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States | - |
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| intestate | (adjective) having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will | - |
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| intimate | (adjective) marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity | - |
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| (adjective) thoroughly acquainted through study or experience | Synonyms: knowledgeable, versed |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cosy, cozy, informal |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: inner, internal |
| (adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: private |
| (adjective) used euphemistically to refer to the genitals | - |
| (adjective) involved in a sexual relationship | Synonyms: sexual |
| (adjective) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship | Synonyms: familiar |
| intrastate | (adjective) relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state | - |
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| intricate | (adjective) having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate | - |
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| invertebrate | (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: spineless |
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| inveterate | (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: chronic |
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| inviolate | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, sacrosanct |
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| (adjective) (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken | Synonyms: intact |
| involucrate | (adjective) having an involucre | - |
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| irate | (adjective) feeling or showing extreme anger | Synonyms: ireful |
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| labiate | (adjective) having lips or parts that resemble lips | Synonyms: liplike |
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| lacerate | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerated, mangled, torn |
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| (adjective) irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn | Synonyms: lacerated |
| laciniate | (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: fringed |
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| lanate | (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: woolly |
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| lanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lancelike |
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| lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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| late | (adjective) being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time | - |
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| (adjective) of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages | - |
| (adjective) at or toward an end or late period or stage of development | Synonyms: later |
| (adjective) having died recently | - |
| (adjective) of the immediate past or just previous to the present time | Synonyms: recent |
| (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: belated, tardy |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, previous |
| latinate | (adjective) derived from or imitative of Latin | - |
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| laureate | (adjective) worthy of the greatest honor or distinction | - |
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| legitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles | - |
| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, licit |
| (adjective) based on known statements or events or conditions | Synonyms: logical |
| leptosporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having each sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell | - |
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| lingulate | (adjective) shaped like a tongue | Synonyms: tongue-shaped |
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| literate | (adjective) able to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) versed in literature; dealing with literature | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields | - |
| lobate | (adjective) having or resembling a lobe or lobes | Synonyms: lobated |
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| (adjective) having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other | Synonyms: lobed |
| lunate | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, crescent, semilunar |
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| lyrate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having curvature suggestive of a lyre | - |
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| maculate | (adjective) spotted or blotched | - |
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| (adjective) morally blemished; stained or impure | Synonyms: defiled |
| mandibulate | (adjective) having mandibles | - |
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| mediate | (adjective) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency | - |
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| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, middle |
| misfortunate | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| moderate | (adjective) being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) not extreme | Synonyms: temperate |
| (adjective) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes | Synonyms: restrained |
| mononucleate | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononuclear |
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| multinucleate | (adjective) having two or more nuclei | - |
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| multivariate | (adjective) pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables | - |
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| nonliterate | (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: preliterate |
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| nonparticulate | (adjective) not composed of distinct particles | - |
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| nonreticulate | (adjective) not resembling or forming a network | - |
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| nucleate | (adjective) having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | Synonyms: nucleated |
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| numerate | (adjective) able to understand and use numbers | - |
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| obdurate | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, stony |
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| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant |
| oblanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base | - |
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| oblate | (adjective) having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles | Synonyms: pumpkin-shaped |
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| obligate | (adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life | - |
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| obliterate | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated |
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| obovate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base | - |
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| obstinate | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: stubborn, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, unrepentant |
| operculate | (adjective) having an operculum | Synonyms: operculated |
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| orbiculate | (adjective) circular or nearly circular | Synonyms: orbicular |
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| ornate | (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: flowery |
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| ossiculate | (adjective) pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicular |
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| ovate | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
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| (adjective) of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base | - |
| overdelicate | (adjective) extremely delicate | - |
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| palmate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point | Synonyms: palm-shaped |
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| (adjective) (of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin | - |
| palpebrate | (adjective) having eyelids | - |
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| pandurate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, panduriform |
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| paniculate | (adjective) having a panicle | - |
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| papillate | (adjective) resembling or covered with papillae | - |
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| paripinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex | Synonyms: abruptly-pinnate, even-pinnate |
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| particulate | (adjective) composed of distinct particles | - |
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| passionate | (adjective) having or expressing strong emotions | - |
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| pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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| pedate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having radiating lobes, each deeply cleft or divided | - |
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| (adjective) having or resembling a foot | - |
| pedunculate | (adjective) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk | Synonyms: stalked |
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| peltate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example) | Synonyms: shield-shaped |
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| pennate | (adjective) having feathered wings | - |
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| penultimate | (adjective) second last | Synonyms: next-to-last |
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| perfoliate | (adjective) (of a leaf) having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem | - |
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| perforate | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforated, pierced, punctured |
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| pinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis | Synonyms: pinnated |
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| pistillate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: carpellate |
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| (adjective) having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant | - |
| planate | (adjective) having been flattened | Synonyms: flattened |
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| plumate | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumed, plumose |
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| postgraduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: graduate |
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| precipitate | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous |
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| predestinate | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestined |
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| predominate | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, preponderant, preponderating |
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| preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
| private | (adjective) confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy | - |
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| (adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: secret |
| (adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: individual |
| (adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: intimate |
| profligate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous |
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| (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift |
| prolate | (adjective) having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter | Synonyms: watermelon-shaped |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid |
| proportionate | (adjective) being in due proportion | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, symmetrical |
| (adjective) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree | - |
| prostate | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostatic |
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| prostrate | (adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground | Synonyms: flat |
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| (adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prone |
| proximate | (adjective) closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects | - |
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| (adjective) very close in space or time | - |
| pustulate | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pimply |
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| quadrate | (adjective) having four sides and four angles | - |
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| quadruplicate | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplex |
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| quaternate | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternary |
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| quinquefoliate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having five leaflets | - |
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| radiate | (adjective) having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies | - |
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| (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, stellate |
| ramate | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramose, ramous |
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| recurvate | (adjective) curved backward or inward | Synonyms: recurved |
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| regenerate | (adjective) reformed spiritually or morally | - |
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| reincarnate | (adjective) having a new body | - |
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| reprobate | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverse, perverted |
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