| imp | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, hob, pixie, pixy |
| impact | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impingement |
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| (noun) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat | Synonyms: shock |
| (noun) the striking of one body against another | - |
| (noun) a forceful consequence; a strong effect | Synonyms: wallop |
| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, touch, touch on |
| (verb) press or wedge together; pack together | - |
| impacted | (adjective) wedged or packed in together | Synonyms: wedged |
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| impaction | (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impingement |
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| (noun) a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally | Synonyms: impacted tooth |
| (noun) a disorder in which feces are impacted in the lower colon | - |
| (noun) the condition of being pressed closely together and firmly fixed | - |
| impair | (verb) make worse or less effective | - |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate |
| impaired | (adjective) diminished in strength, quality, or utility | - |
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| (adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: afflicted |
| impairer | (noun) an agent that impairs | - |
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| impairment | (noun) damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, harm |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap |
| (noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: deterioration |
| impala | (noun) African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps | Synonyms: Aepyceros melampus |
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| impale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, spike, transfix |
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| (verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: stake |
| impalement | (noun) the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture | - |
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| impalpability | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: intangibility, intangibleness |
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| (noun) Ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind. | - |
| impalpable | (adjective) imperceptible to the senses or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch | Synonyms: intangible |
| (adjective) not perceptible to the touch | - |
| impalpably | (adverb) not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness | Synonyms: insubstantially |
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| impanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: empanel |
| imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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| impart | (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, transmit |
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| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, leave, pass on |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, lend |
| impartation | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, imparting |
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| impartial | (adjective) showing lack of favoritism | - |
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| (adjective) free from undue bias or preconceived opinions | Synonyms: unprejudiced |
| impartiality | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: nonpartisanship |
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| impartially | (adverb) in an impartial manner | - |
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| imparting | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, impartation |
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| impassable | (adjective) incapable of being passed | Synonyms: unpassable |
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| impasse | (noun) a street with only one way in or out | Synonyms: blind alley, cul de sac, dead-end street |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, stalemate, standstill |
| impassioned | (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, perfervid, torrid |
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| impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
| impassively | (adverb) in an impassive manner | - |
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| impassiveness | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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| impassivity | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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| impasto | (noun) painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible | - |
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| impatience | (noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay | - |
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| (noun) a restless desire for change and excitement | - |
| (noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: restlessness |
| impatient | (adjective) restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness | Synonyms: raring |
| impatiently | (adverb) with impatience; in an impatient manner | - |
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| impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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| (verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
| (verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
| impeachability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: indictability |
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| impeachment | (noun) a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office | - |
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| impeccability | (noun) the quality of being exempt from sin or incapable of sinning | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: faultlessness |
| impeccable | (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, immaculate, incorrupted |
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| (adjective) not capable of sin | - |
| impeccably | (adverb) flawlessly | - |
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| impeccant | (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: innocent, sinless |
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| impecunious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched |
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| impecuniousness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: pennilessness, penuriousness |
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| impedance | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, ohmic resistance, resistance, resistivity |
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| impede | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: hinder |
| impeded | (adjective) made difficult or slow | - |
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| impediment | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance |
| impedimenta | (noun) the baggage and equipment carried by an army | - |
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| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
| impeding | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, obstructive |
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| impel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: propel |
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| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: force |
| impelled | (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: driven |
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| impellent | (adjective) forcing forward or onward; impelling | - |
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| impeller | (noun) the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) | - |
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| impelling | (adjective) markedly effective as if by emotional pressure | - |
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| impend | (verb) be imminent or about to happen | - |
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| impendence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendency |
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| impendency | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence |
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| impendent | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impending |
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| impending | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent |
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| impenetrability | (noun) the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: imperviousness |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrableness |
| impenetrable | (adjective) not admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to understand | - |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, heavy |
| impenetrableness | (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrability |
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| impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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| impenitency | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitence |
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| impenitent | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: unremorseful, unrepentant |
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| (adjective) impervious to moral persuasion | - |
| impenitently | (adverb) in an impenitent manner | Synonyms: unrepentantly |
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| imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
| (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
| (noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
| (noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
| imperatively | (adverb) in an imperative and commanding manner | Synonyms: peremptorily |
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| imperativeness | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: instancy |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: insistence, insistency, press, pressure |
| imperceptibility | (noun) the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the senses | - |
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| imperceptible | (adjective) impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses | Synonyms: unperceivable |
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| imperceptibly | (adverb) in an imperceptible manner or to an imperceptible degree | Synonyms: unnoticeably |
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| imperfect | (adjective) not perfect; defective or inadequate | - |
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| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, weak |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense |
| imperfectibility | (noun) the capability of becoming imperfect | - |
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| imperfectible | (adjective) capable of being made imperfect | - |
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| imperfection | (noun) the state or an instance of being imperfect | Synonyms: imperfectness |
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| imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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| imperfectly | (adverb) in an imperfect or faulty way | Synonyms: amiss |
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| imperfectness | (noun) the state or an instance of being imperfect | Synonyms: imperfection |
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| imperforate | (adjective) not perforated; having no opening | - |
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| imperial | (adjective) befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or associated with an empire | - |
| (adjective) of or belonging to the British Imperial System of weights and measures | - |
| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: majestic, purple, regal, royal |
| (noun) a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach | - |
| (noun) a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III | Synonyms: imperial beard |
| imperialism | (noun) any instance of aggressive extension of authority | - |
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| (noun) a political orientation that advocates imperial interests | - |
| (noun) a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries | - |
| imperialist | (adjective) of or relating to imperialism | Synonyms: imperialistic |
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| (noun) a believer in imperialism | - |
| imperialistic | (adjective) of or relating to imperialism | Synonyms: imperialist |
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| imperially | (adverb) in an imperial manner | - |
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| imperialness | (noun) The quality of being related to an empire, emperor, or empress. | - |
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| imperil | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| imperious | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
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| imperiously | (adverb) in an imperious manner | - |
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| imperiousness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: domineeringness, overbearingness |
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| imperishability | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishableness, imperishingness |
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| imperishable | (adjective) not perishable | - |
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| (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, enduring |
| imperishableness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishingness |
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| imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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| imperium | (noun) supreme authority; absolute dominion | - |
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| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: empire |
| impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
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| impermanency | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanence |
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| impermanent | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: temporary |
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| (adjective) existing or enduring for a limited time only | - |
| impermeability | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeableness |
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| impermeable | (adjective) preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through | - |
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| impermeableness | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeability |
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