| ignobleness | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobility |
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| ignobly | (adverb) in a currish manner; meanspiritedly | Synonyms: currishly |
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| ignominious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| ignominiously | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| ignominiousness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, shamefulness |
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| ignominy | (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, shame |
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| ignoramus | (noun) an ignorant person | Synonyms: know nothing, uneducated person |
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| ignorance | (noun) the lack of knowledge or education | - |
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| ignorant | (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: unknowing, unknowledgeable, unwitting |
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| (adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: illiterate |
| (adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: nescient, unlearned, unlettered |
| ignorantly | (adverb) in ignorance; in an ignorant manner | - |
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| ignorantness | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: nescience, unknowing, unknowingness |
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| ignore | (verb) be ignorant of or in the dark about | - |
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| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, neglect |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, push aside |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, disregard, snub |
| (verb) fail to notice | - |
| ignored | (adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: neglected, unheeded |
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| imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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| impregnability | (noun) having the strength to withstand attack | Synonyms: invulnerability |
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| impregnable | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: conceptive |
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| (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable, unattackable |
| (adjective) incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted | Synonyms: inexpugnable |
| impregnably | (adverb) in an impregnable manner | - |
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| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| impregnation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
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| (noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: saturation |
| (noun) material with which something is impregnated | - |
| impugn | (verb) attack as false or wrong | - |
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| impugnable | (adjective) subject to being discredited | - |
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| incognito | (adjective) with your identity concealed | - |
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| (adverb) without revealing one's identity | - |
| incognizable | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognoscible |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| incognizant | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: unaware |
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| incognoscible | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognizable |
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| indignant | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: incensed, outraged, umbrageous |
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| indignantly | (adverb) in an indignant manner | - |
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| indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
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| indignity | (noun) an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem | - |
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| inexpugnable | (adjective) incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| insignia | (noun) a badge worn to show official position | - |
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| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insignificant | (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: unimportant |
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| (adjective) signifying nothing | - |
| (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: peanut |
| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: dinky |
| insignificantly | (adverb) not to a significant degree or amount | - |
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| (adverb) in an insignificant manner | - |
| interestingness | (noun) the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | Synonyms: interest |
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| interregnum | (noun) the time between two reigns, governments, etc. | - |
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| knowingness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, consciousness |
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| (noun) shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge | - |
| lagniappe | (noun) a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase) | - |
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| lasagna | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagne |
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| (noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagne |
| lasagne | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagna |
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| (noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagna |
| lastingness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, strength |
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| ligne | (noun) a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons | - |
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| ligneous | (adjective) consisting of or containing lignin or xylem | - |
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| lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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| lignin | (noun) a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants | - |
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| lignite | (noun) intermediate between peat and bituminous coal | Synonyms: brown coal, wood coal |
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| lignosae | (noun) a category in some early taxonomies | - |
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| lignum | (noun) woody tissue | - |
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| longness | (noun) the property of being of long spatial extent | - |
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| (noun) duration as an extension | - |
| lorgnette | (noun) eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle | - |
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| lovingness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, warmth |
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| (noun) a loving feeling | Synonyms: caring |
| magnanimity | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, munificence, openhandedness |
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| magnanimous | (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, large |
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| (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: greathearted |
| magnanimously | (adverb) in a magnanimous manner | - |
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| magnanimousness | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, nobility, nobleness |
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| magnate | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
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| magnesia | (noun) a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium | Synonyms: magnesium oxide, periclase |
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| magnesite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium | - |
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| magnesium | (noun) a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine) | Synonyms: atomic number 12, Mg |
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| magnet | (noun) (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field | - |
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| (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, attractor |
| magnetic | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetised, magnetized |
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| (adjective) determined by earth's magnetic fields | - |
| (adjective) capable of being magnetized | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or caused by magnetism | - |
| (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: charismatic |
| magnetically | (adverb) as if by magnetism | - |
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| (adverb) by the use of magnetism | - |
| magnetics | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetism |
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| magnetisation | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetization |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetization |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetization |
| magnetise | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetised | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetized |
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| magnetism | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetics |
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| (noun) attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force | Synonyms: magnetic attraction, magnetic force |
| magnetite | (noun) an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets | Synonyms: magnetic iron-ore |
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| magnetization | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetisation |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetisation |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetisation |
| magnetize | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetized | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetised |
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| magneto | (noun) a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine | Synonyms: magnetoelectric machine |
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| magnetograph | (noun) a scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations (especially variations of the earth's magnetic field) | - |
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| magnetohydrodynamics | (noun) the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal) | - |
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| magnetometer | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: gaussmeter |
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| magneton | (noun) a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle | - |
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| magnetosphere | (noun) the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field | - |
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| magnetron | (noun) a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators | - |
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| magnification | (noun) the act of expanding something in apparent size | - |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, enlargement |
| (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement |
| (noun) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object | - |
| magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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| magnificently | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, splendidly |
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| (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, resplendently, splendidly |
| magnifico | (noun) a person of distinguished rank or appearance | - |
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| magnified | (adjective) enlarged to an abnormal degree | Synonyms: enlarged, exaggerated |
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| magnifier | (noun) a scientific instrument that magnifies an image | - |
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| magnify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: amplify |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
| magniloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, ornateness, rhetoric |
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| magniloquent | (adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: grandiloquent, tall |
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| magniloquently | (adverb) in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner | Synonyms: grandiloquently |
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| magnitude | (noun) the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) | - |
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| (noun) relative importance | - |
| (noun) a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10 | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| magnolia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms | - |
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| (noun) dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine | - |
| magnoliopsid | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, dicotyledon, exogen |
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| magnum | (noun) a large wine bottle for liquor or wine | - |
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| malign | (adjective) evil or harmful in nature or influence | - |
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| (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malevolent |
| (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce |
| malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
| malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
| malignant | (adjective) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor) | - |
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| malignantly | (adverb) in a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads | - |
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| maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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