| insipidity | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidness |
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| (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidness |
| insipidly | (adverb) in an insipid manner | - |
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| insipidness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidity |
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| (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidity |
| insist | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: assert |
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| (verb) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge | Synonyms: take a firm stand |
| (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: importune |
| insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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| (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
| insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
| insistent | (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, instant |
| insistently | (adverb) in an insistent manner | - |
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| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| insobriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| insofar | (adverb) to the degree or extent that | Synonyms: in so far, so far, to that degree, to that extent |
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| insolate | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarise, solarize, sun |
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| insolation | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: heliotherapy |
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| (noun) incident solar radiation | - |
| (noun) sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat | Synonyms: siriasis, sunstroke, thermic fever |
| insole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: innersole |
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| insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence |
| insolent | (adjective) marked by casual disrespect | Synonyms: flip, impudent, snotty-nosed |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen |
| insolently | (adverb) in an insolent manner | - |
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| insolubility | (noun) the quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid | - |
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| (noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve | Synonyms: unsolvability |
| insoluble | (adjective) (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved | Synonyms: indissoluble |
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| (adjective) admitting of no solution or explanation | - |
| (adjective) without hope of solution | - |
| insolvable | (adjective) not easily solved | Synonyms: unresolvable, unsoluble, unsolvable |
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| insolvency | (noun) the lack of financial resources | - |
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| insolvent | (adjective) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations | - |
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| (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
| insomnia | (noun) an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness | - |
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| insomniac | (adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: sleepless, watchful |
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| (noun) someone who cannot sleep | Synonyms: sleepless person |
| insomuch | (adverb) to such an extent or degree; so | - |
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| insouciance | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
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| insouciant | (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: casual, nonchalant |
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| inspan | (verb) attach a yoke or harness to | - |
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| inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) look over carefully | - |
| inspection | (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: review |
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| inspector | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: examiner |
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| (noun) a high ranking police officer | - |
| inspectorate | (noun) a body of inspectors | - |
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| inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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| inspiration | (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake |
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| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: stirring |
| (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: brainchild |
| (noun) (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings | Synonyms: divine guidance |
| (noun) a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem | - |
| (noun) arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity | - |
| inspirational | (adjective) imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul | - |
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| inspirationally | (adverb) with inspiration; in an inspiring manner | - |
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| inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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| inspire | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inhale |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: instigate, prompt |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) supply the inspiration for | - |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate |
| inspired | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: divine, elysian |
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| inspirer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, galvanizer |
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| inspiring | (adjective) stimulating or exalting to the spirit | - |
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| inspirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: spirit, spirit up |
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| inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
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| inspissate | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
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| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: thicken |
| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| inst | (adjective) in or of the present month | Synonyms: instant |
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| instability | (noun) the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute | Synonyms: unstableness |
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| (noun) unreliability attributable to being unstable | - |
| (noun) an unstable order | - |
| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, unbalance |
| instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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| instagood | (adjective) likely to get many upvotes on Instagram | - |
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| instal | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: install, put in, set up |
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| (verb) place | Synonyms: establish, install, set up |
| (verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: install |
| instalike | (noun) something that is so good that it deserves to be instantly voted for on social media | - |
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| (verb) to instantly vote for something on social media | - |
| install | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: instal, put in, set up |
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| (verb) place | Synonyms: establish, instal, set up |
| (verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: instal |
| installation | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installing, installment, instalment |
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| (noun) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry | Synonyms: facility |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: induction, initiation |
| installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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| installment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, instalment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, instalment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: instalment |
| (noun) a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals | - |
| instalment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, installment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, installment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: installment |
| instance | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, representative |
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| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, example |
| (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, illustrate |
| instancy | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: imperativeness |
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| (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness |
| instant | (adjective) occurring with no delay | Synonyms: instantaneous |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent |
| (adjective) in or of the present month | Synonyms: inst |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: minute, moment, second |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| instantaneous | (adjective) occurring with no delay | Synonyms: instant |
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| instantaneously | (adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantly, outright |
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| instantaneousness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instancy |
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| instantiate | (verb) find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) | - |
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| (verb) represent by an instance | - |
| instantiation | (noun) a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it | - |
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| instantly | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| (adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantaneously, outright |
| instar | (noun) an insect or other arthropod between molts | - |
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| instauration | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, institution, introduction, origination |
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| instead | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: alternatively, or else |
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| (adverb) on the contrary | Synonyms: rather |
| instep | (noun) the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot | - |
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| (noun) the arch of the foot | - |
| instigant | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigator, provoker |
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| instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
| instigation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: fomentation |
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| (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abetment, abettal |
| instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| instigator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: initiator |
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| (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, provoker |
| instil | (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instill |
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| instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
| (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
| instillation | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillment, instilment |
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| (noun) a liquid that is instilled drop by drop | - |
| instillator | (noun) medical apparatus that puts a liquid into a cavity drop by drop | - |
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| instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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| instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
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| instilment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instillment |
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| instinct | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: imbued, replete |
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| (noun) inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli | Synonyms: inherent aptitude |
| instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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| instinctively | (adverb) as a matter of instinct | - |
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| institute | (noun) an association organized to promote art or science or education | - |
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| (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: bring |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant |
| institution | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | - |
| (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
| (noun) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | - |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: establishment |
| institutional | (adjective) organized as or forming an institution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or constituting or involving an institution | - |
| (adjective) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative | Synonyms: uninteresting |
| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalised | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalized |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalized |
| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| institutionalized | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalised |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalised |
| institutionally | (adverb) by an institution | - |
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| instroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving away from the crankshaft | - |
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| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| instruction | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, program line, statement |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: direction |
| instructional | (adjective) of or relating to or used in instruction | - |
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| instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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| instructively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: informatively |
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| instructor | (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: teacher |
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