| intimacy | (noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: closeness, familiarity |
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| (noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: closeness |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, involvement, liaison |
| intimal | (adjective) of or relating to the intima | - |
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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 |
| (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: confidant |
| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: adumbrate, insinuate |
| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: suggest |
| intimately | (adverb) in a close manner | Synonyms: closely, nearly |
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| (adverb) with great or especially intimate knowledge | Synonyms: well |
| intimation | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, inkling |
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| (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: breath, hint |
| intimidate | (verb) make timid or fearful | - |
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| (verb) to compel or deter by or as if by threats | - |
| intimidated | (adjective) made timid or fearful as by threats | - |
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| intimidating | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: daunting |
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| intimidation | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, deterrence |
| (noun) the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid | - |
| (noun) the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc. | - |
| intolerable | (adjective) incapable of being tolerated or endured | Synonyms: unbearable, unendurable |
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| intolerably | (adverb) to an unacceptable degree | Synonyms: unacceptably |
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| intolerance | (noun) impatience with annoyances | - |
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| (noun) unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs | - |
| intolerant | (adjective) unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion | - |
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| (adjective) narrow-minded about cherished opinions | Synonyms: illiberal |
| intolerantly | (adverb) in a manner that isn't broad-minded | Synonyms: illiberally |
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| (adverb) in an intolerant manner | - |
| intonate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intone |
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| (verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intone |
| intonation | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: chanting |
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| (noun) singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong | - |
| (noun) the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations | - |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: modulation, pitch contour |
| intone | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intonate |
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| (verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intonate |
| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: chant, tone |
| intoned | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: chantlike, singsong |
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| intoxicant | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicating |
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| (noun) a drug that can produce a state of intoxication | - |
| (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant |
| intoxicate | (verb) have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug | - |
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| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, soak |
| (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
| intoxicated | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, inebriated, ripped |
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| (adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: drunk |
| intoxicating | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicant |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: heady |
| intoxication | (noun) excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety | - |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, tipsiness |
| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: poisoning, toxic condition |
| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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| intracranial | (adjective) within the skull | - |
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| intractability | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractableness |
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| intractable | (adjective) not tractable; difficult to manage or mold | - |
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| intractableness | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractability |
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| intractably | (adverb) in an intractable manner | - |
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| intracutaneous | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intradermal, intradermic |
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| intradepartmental | (adjective) within a department | - |
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| intradermal | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermic |
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| intradermally | (adverb) into the skin | - |
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| intradermic | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermal |
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| intrados | (noun) the interior curve of an arch | - |
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| intragroup | (adjective) occurring within an institution or community | Synonyms: internal |
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| intralinguistic | (adjective) within a particular language | - |
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| intralobular | (adjective) inside lobes or lobules | - |
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| intramolecular | (adjective) within the molecule; occurring by a reaction between different parts of the same molecule | - |
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| intramural | (adjective) carried on within the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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| intramuscularly | (adverb) in an intramuscular way | - |
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| intranet | (noun) a restricted computer network; a private network created using World Wide Web software | - |
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| intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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| intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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| intransigent | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, inexorable |
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| intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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| (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
| intransitively | (adverb) in an intransitive manner | - |
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| intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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| intransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivize |
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| intransitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitiveness |
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| intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| intrasentential | (adjective) of or relating to constituents within a sentence | - |
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| intraspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecific |
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| intraspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecies |
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| intrastate | (adjective) relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state | - |
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| intrauterine | (adjective) within the womb | - |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| intravenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: endovenous |
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| intravenously | (adverb) in an intravenous manner | - |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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| intrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: entrenchment |
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| intrepid | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, unfearing |
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| intrepidity | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: dauntlessness |
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| intrepidly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: dauntlessly, fearlessly |
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| intricacy | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, involution |
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| intricate | (adjective) having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate | - |
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| intricately | (adverb) with elaboration | Synonyms: elaborately, in an elaborate way |
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| intrigue | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: machination |
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| (noun) a clandestine love affair | - |
| (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, scheme |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: fascinate |
| intriguer | (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: designer |
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| intriguing | (adjective) capable of arousing interest or curiosity | - |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: challenging |
| intrinsic | (adjective) belonging to a thing by its very nature | Synonyms: intrinsical |
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| (adjective) situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts | - |
| intrinsical | (adjective) belonging to a thing by its very nature | Synonyms: intrinsic |
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| intrinsically | (adverb) with respect to its inherent nature | Synonyms: in and of itself, per se |
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| intro | (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: introduction, presentation |
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| (noun) a brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music | - |
| introduce | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: inaugurate, usher in |
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| (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, insert, put in, stick in |
| (verb) put before (a body) | - |
| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, present |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: precede, preface, premise |
| (verb) bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc. | Synonyms: bring out |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, insert |
| (verb) bring something new to an environment | Synonyms: innovate |
| (verb) bring in or establish in a new place or environment | - |
| (verb) bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment | Synonyms: bring in |
| introduction | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, intromission |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, launching, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, origination |
| (noun) the first section of a communication | - |
| (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: intro, presentation |
| (noun) a basic or elementary instructional text | - |
| (noun) a new proposal | - |
| introductoriness | (noun) The quality of being introducing; of giving a preview or idea of. | - |
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| introductory | (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: basic |
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| (adjective) serving to open or begin | - |
| (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: prefatorial, prefatory |
| introit | (noun) a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services | - |
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| introitus | (noun) entrance or opening to a hollow organ or tube (especially the vaginal opening) | - |
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| introject | (noun) (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized | - |
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| (verb) incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously | - |
| introjected | (adjective) incorporated unconsciously into your own psyche | - |
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| introjection | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads to the formation of the superego | - |
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| (noun) (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects | - |
| intromission | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, introduction |
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| intromit | (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: admit, allow in, let in |
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| intron | (noun) sequence of a eukaryotic gene's DNA that is not translated into a protein | Synonyms: noncoding DNA |
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| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| introspection | (noun) the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct | Synonyms: self-contemplation, self-examination |
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| introspectionism | (noun) a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection. | - |
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| introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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| introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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| introuvable | (adjective) impossible to find | - |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| (verb) turn inside | - |
| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| introverted | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introspective, self-examining |
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