| ides | (noun) in the Roman calendar: the 15th of March or May or July or October or the 13th of any other month | - |
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| idesia | (noun) deciduous roundheaded Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries | Synonyms: Idesia polycarpa |
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| idiocy | (noun) extreme mental retardation | Synonyms: amentia |
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| idiographic | (adjective) relating to or involving the study of individuals | - |
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| idiolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: autolatry, self-worship |
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| idiolect | (noun) the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life | - |
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| idiom | (noun) the style of a particular artist or school or movement | Synonyms: artistic style |
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| (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, dialect |
| (noun) an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up | Synonyms: idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, phrase, set phrase |
| (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: parlance |
| idiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or conforming to idiom | Synonyms: idiomatical |
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| idiomatical | (adjective) of or relating to or conforming to idiom | Synonyms: idiomatic |
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| idiomatically | (adverb) in an idiomatic manner | - |
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| idiopathic | (adjective) (of diseases) arising from an unknown cause | - |
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| idiopathy | (noun) any disease arising from internal dysfunctions of unknown cause | Synonyms: idiopathic disease, idiopathic disorder |
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| idiosyncrasy | (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, mannerism |
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| idiosyncratic | (adjective) peculiar to the individual | - |
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| idiot | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, imbecile, moron, retard |
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| idiotic | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: crackbrained |
| (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: imbecile, imbecilic |
| idiotically | (adverb) in an idiotic manner | - |
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| idle | (adjective) not in action or at work | - |
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| (adjective) silly or trivial | Synonyms: light |
| (adjective) not in active use | Synonyms: unused |
| (adjective) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility | Synonyms: loose |
| (adjective) not having a job | Synonyms: jobless, out of work |
| (adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: dead |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
| (noun) the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling | - |
| (verb) run disconnected or idle | Synonyms: tick over |
| (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: laze, slug, stagnate |
| idleness | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idling, loafing |
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| (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: faineance |
| (noun) the quality of lacking substance or value | Synonyms: groundlessness |
| idler | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, layabout, loafer |
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| idling | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, loafing |
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| idly | (adverb) in an idle manner | Synonyms: lazily |
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| idocrase | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: vesuvian, vesuvianite |
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| idol | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: god, graven image |
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| (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, paragon, perfection |
| (noun) someone who is adored blindly and excessively | Synonyms: matinee idol |
| idolater | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idoliser, idolizer |
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| idolatress | (noun) a woman idolater | - |
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| idolatrous | (adjective) relating to or practicing idolatry | - |
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| (adjective) blindly or excessively devoted or adoring | - |
| idolatrously | (adverb) in an idolatrous manner | - |
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| idolatry | (noun) the worship of idols; the worship of physical objects or images as gods | Synonyms: idol worship |
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| idolisation | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolization |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolization |
| idolise | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolize, revere, worship |
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| idolised | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: adored, idolized, worshipped |
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| idoliser | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idolizer |
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| (noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idolizer |
| idolization | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolisation |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolisation |
| idolize | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship |
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| idolized | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: adored, idolised, worshipped |
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| idolizer | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idoliser |
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| (noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idoliser |
| idyl | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, eclogue, idyll |
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| (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyll, pastoral, pastorale |
| idyll | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, eclogue, idyl |
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| (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, pastoral, pastorale |
| (noun) an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll | - |
| idyllic | (adjective) excellent and delightful in all respects | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene | - |
| idyllically | (adverb) in an idyllic manner | - |
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| ie | (adverb) a figure of speech used as a way to provide further information, or to be more specific or exact about something | Synonyms: i.e., id est |
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| iffy | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, flukey, fluky |
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| igloo | (noun) an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome | Synonyms: iglu |
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| iglu | (noun) an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome | Synonyms: igloo |
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| igneous | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: eruptive |
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| (adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: pyrogenic, pyrogenous |
| (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: fiery |
| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| ignitable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: burnable, ignitible |
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| ignite | (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, light |
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| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, take fire |
| ignited | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, kindled |
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| igniter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: ignitor, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: ignitor, lighter |
| ignitible | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: burnable, ignitable |
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| ignition | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, inflammation, kindling, lighting |
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| (noun) the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: ignition system |
| (noun) the process of initiating combustion or catching fire | - |
| ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |
| ignobility | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobleness |
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| ignoble | (adjective) completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) not of the nobility | Synonyms: ungentle, untitled |
| 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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| iguana | (noun) large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America | Synonyms: common iguana, Iguana iguana |
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| iguanid | (noun) lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males | Synonyms: iguanid lizard |
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| iguanodon | (noun) massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period | - |
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| ii | (adjective) being one more than one | Synonyms: 2, two |
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| iii | (adjective) being one more than two | Synonyms: 3, three |
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| ijtihad | (noun) the endeavor of a Muslim scholar to derive a rule of divine law from the Koran and Hadith without relying on the views of other scholars; by the end of the 10th century theologians decided that debate on such matters would be closed and Muslim theology and law were frozen | - |
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| ikon | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, image, picture |
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| (noun) a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church | Synonyms: icon |
| il | (adjective) being nine more than forty | Synonyms: 49, forty-nine |
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| ilama | (noun) whitish tropical fruit with a pinkish tinge related to custard apples; grown in the southern United States | - |
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| (noun) tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit | Synonyms: Annona diversifolia, ilama tree |
| ileitis | (noun) inflammation of the ileum | - |
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| ileostomy | (noun) surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| ileum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum | - |
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| ileus | (noun) blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel | Synonyms: intestinal obstruction |
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| iliac | (adjective) of or relating to the ilium | - |
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| ilium | (noun) the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone | - |
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| ilk | (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: like |
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| ill | (adjective) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function | Synonyms: sick |
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| (adjective) distressing | - |
| (adjective) resulting in suffering or adversity | - |
| (adjective) indicating hostility or enmity | - |
| (adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: inauspicious, ominous |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, complaint |
| (adverb) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well | Synonyms: badly, poorly |
| (adverb) with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly | - |
| (adverb) unfavorably or with disapproval | Synonyms: badly |
| illation | (noun) the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation | Synonyms: inference |
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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 |
| illegal | (adjective) prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules | - |
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| illegalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalize, outlaw |
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| illegality | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute | - |
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| illegalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, outlaw |
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| illegally | (adverb) in an illegal manner | Synonyms: illicitly, lawlessly |
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| illegibility | (noun) the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered | - |
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| illegible | (adjective) (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible | - |
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| illegibly | (adverb) in an illegible manner | Synonyms: undecipherably, unreadably |
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| illegitimacy | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy |
| illegitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
| (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
| illegitimately | (adverb) of biological parents not married to each other | Synonyms: out of wedlock |
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| (adverb) in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom | Synonyms: illicitly |
| illiberal | (adjective) narrow-minded about cherished opinions | Synonyms: intolerant |
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