| image | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture |
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| (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum |
| (noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: persona |
| (noun) the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public | - |
| (noun) an iconic mental representation | Synonyms: mental image |
| (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: range, range of a function |
| (noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: double, look-alike |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) render visible, as by means of MRI | - |
| imagery | (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
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| imaginable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: conceivable |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
| imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imaginatively | (adverb) with imagination | - |
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| imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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| imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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| (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
| imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
| imagism | (noun) a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery | - |
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| imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
| imam | (noun) (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide | Synonyms: imaum |
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| imaret | (noun) a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey | - |
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| imaum | (noun) (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide | Synonyms: imam |
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| imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
| imbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: unbalanced |
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| imbauba | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, trumpetwood |
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| imbecile | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecilic |
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| (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard |
| imbecilic | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecile |
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| imbecility | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, foolishness, stupidity |
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| (noun) retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot | - |
| imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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| imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| imbiber | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, juicer, toper |
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| imbibing | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibition |
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| imbibition | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibing |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel | - |
| imbricate | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricated |
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| (verb) overlap | - |
| (verb) place so as to overlap | - |
| imbricated | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricate |
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| imbrication | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: lapping, overlapping |
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| imbroglio | (noun) a very embarrassing misunderstanding | - |
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| (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: embroilment |
| imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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| imbue | (verb) suffuse with color | Synonyms: hue |
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| (verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: soak |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| imbued | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: instinct, replete |
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| imidazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, iminazole |
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| imide | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO- | - |
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| iminazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, imidazole |
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| imipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Imavate, impramine hydrochloride, Tofranil |
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| imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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| (verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
| (verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
| imitation | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, simulated |
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| (noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
| (noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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| imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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| (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
| immaculacy | (noun) The characteristic of having no stain or blemish; of being spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. | - |
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| immaculate | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, impeccable, incorrupted |
| (adjective) free from stain or blemish | Synonyms: undefiled |
| immaculately | (adverb) in an immaculate manner | - |
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| immaculateness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: spotlessness |
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| immanence | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanency |
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| immanency | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanence |
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| immanent | (adjective) of a mental act performed entirely within the mind | Synonyms: subjective |
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| (adjective) of qualities that are spread throughout something | - |
| immaterial | (adjective) not consisting of matter | Synonyms: nonmaterial |
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| (adjective) of no importance or relevance especially to a law case | - |
| (adjective) without material form or substance | Synonyms: incorporeal |
| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, impertinent, orthogonal |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other | Synonyms: indifferent |
| immaterialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immateriality | (noun) the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter | Synonyms: incorporeality |
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| (noun) complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration | - |
| immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immature | (adjective) not yet mature | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of a lack of maturity | - |
| (adjective) (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth | Synonyms: young |
| (adjective) (of birds) not yet having developed feathers | Synonyms: unfledged |
| (adjective) not fully developed or mature; not ripe | Synonyms: green, unripe, unripened |
| immaturely | (adverb) in an immature manner | Synonyms: jejunely |
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| immatureness | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immaturity |
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| immaturity | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immatureness |
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| immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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| immeasurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immensurable, unmeasurable |
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| (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: incomputable, inestimable |
| immeasurably | (adverb) to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement | - |
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| (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, infinitely |
| immediacy | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediateness |
| (noun) immediate intuitive awareness | Synonyms: immediate apprehension |
| immediate | (adjective) having no intervening medium | - |
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| (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway |
| (adjective) of the present time and place | - |
| (adjective) immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect | - |
| immediately | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| (adverb) near or close by | - |
| (adverb) bearing an immediate relation | - |
| immediateness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediacy |
| immemorial | (adjective) long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history | - |
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| immense | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, vast |
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| immensely | (adverb) to an exceedingly great extent or degree | Synonyms: vastly |
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| immenseness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| immensity | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| immensurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, unmeasurable |
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| immerse | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, swallow, swallow up |
| immersion | (noun) a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged | - |
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| (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, submersion |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossment |
| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion |
| (noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse | Synonyms: ingress |
| immigrant | (noun) a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there | - |
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| immigrate | (verb) come into a new country and change residency | - |
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| (verb) migrate to a new environment | - |
| (verb) introduce or send as immigrants | - |
| immigration | (noun) migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) | Synonyms: in-migration |
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| (noun) the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval | - |
| imminence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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| imminency | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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| imminent | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, impendent, impending |
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| imminently | (adverb) in an imminent manner | - |
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| imminentness | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, impendence, impendency |
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| immingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, intermingle, intermix |
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| immiscible | (adjective) (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing | Synonyms: non-miscible, unmixable |
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| immix | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, meld, merge, mix |
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| immobile | (adjective) not capable of movement or of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: fast, firm |
| immobilisation | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilization, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilization |
| immobilise | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilize |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilize |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilize |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilize, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
| immobility | (noun) the quality of not moving | - |
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| (noun) remaining in place | Synonyms: fixedness, stationariness |
| immobilization | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilisation |
| immobilize | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilise |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| immobilizing | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilization |
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| immoderate | (adjective) beyond reasonable limits | - |
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| immoderately | (adverb) without moderation; in an immoderate manner | - |
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| (adverb) to a degree that exceeds the bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: unreasonably |
| immoderateness | (noun) the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation | Synonyms: immoderation |
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| immoderation | (noun) the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation | Synonyms: immoderateness |
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| immodest | (adjective) lacking decorum or decency | - |
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| (adjective) having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc | - |
| immodestly | (adverb) without modesty; in an immodest manner | - |
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| immodesty | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: exhibitionism |
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| (noun) the trait of being vain and conceited | - |
| immolate | (verb) offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction | - |
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| immolation | (noun) killing or offering as a sacrifice | - |
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| immoral | (adjective) deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong | - |
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| (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: base |