| impermissibility | (noun) inadmissibility as a consequence of not being permitted | - |
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| impermissible | (adjective) not permitted | - |
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| (adjective) not allowable | - |
| impermissibly | (adverb) not permissibly | - |
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| impersonal | (adjective) not relating to or responsive to individual persons | - |
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| (adjective) having no personal preference | Synonyms: neutral |
| impersonally | (adverb) without warmth | - |
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| (adverb) in an impersonal manner | - |
| impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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| (verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
| impersonation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: personation |
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| (noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: imposture |
| (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, imitation |
| impersonator | (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: imitator |
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| impertinence | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impudence, insolence |
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impudence |
| impertinent | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
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| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: irreverent, pert, saucy |
| impertinently | (adverb) in an impudent or impertinent manner | Synonyms: freshly, impudently, pertly, saucily |
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| imperturbability | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbableness |
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| imperturbable | (adjective) not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure | Synonyms: unflappable |
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| imperturbableness | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbability |
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| imperviable | (adjective) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | Synonyms: impervious |
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| impervious | (adjective) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | Synonyms: imperviable |
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| imperviousness | (noun) the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: impenetrability |
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| impetiginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having impetigo | - |
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| impetigo | (noun) a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode | - |
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| impetuosity | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuousness |
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| impetuous | (adjective) marked by violent force | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
| impetuously | (adverb) in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions | Synonyms: impulsively |
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| impetuousness | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuosity |
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| impetus | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impulse, impulsion |
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| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: drift, impulsion |
| impiety | (noun) unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god | Synonyms: impiousness |
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| impinge | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, trench |
| impingement | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impact |
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| (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impaction |
| impinging | (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, striking |
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| impious | (adjective) lacking piety or reverence for a god | - |
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| (adjective) lacking due respect or dutifulness | Synonyms: undutiful |
| impiously | (adverb) in an impious manner | - |
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| impiousness | (noun) unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god | Synonyms: impiety |
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| impish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| impishly | (adverb) in an appealing but bold manner | Synonyms: puckishly |
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| impishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: mischievousness, puckishness, whimsicality |
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| implacable | (adjective) incapable of being placated | - |
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| implant | (noun) a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue | - |
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| (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
| (verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
| implantation | (noun) the act of planting or setting in the ground | - |
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| (noun) a surgical procedure that places something in the human body | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: nidation |
| implanted | (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, planted |
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| implausibility | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibleness |
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| implausible | (adjective) having a quality that provokes disbelief | - |
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| implausibleness | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibility |
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| implausibly | (adverb) not easy to believe | Synonyms: improbably, incredibly, unbelievably |
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| implement | (noun) instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end | - |
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| (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
| (verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
| implemental | (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: instrumental, subservient |
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| implementation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: effectuation |
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| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, execution |
| implemented | (adjective) forced or compelled or put in force | Synonyms: enforced |
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| implicate | (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: entail |
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| (verb) bring into intimate and incriminating connection | - |
| implicated | (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: concerned |
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| implication | (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: import, significance |
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| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, entailment |
| (noun) an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection | - |
| (noun) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement) | - |
| (noun) a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false | Synonyms: conditional relation, logical implication |
| implicational | (adjective) relating to or concerned with logical implication | - |
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| implicative | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: suggestive |
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| implicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: inexplicit |
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| (adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: unquestioning |
| implicitly | (adverb) without ever expressing so clearly | - |
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| (adverb) without doubting or questioning | - |
| implicitness | (noun) inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect | - |
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| implike | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| implode | (verb) burst inward | Synonyms: go off |
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| implore | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, pray |
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| imploring | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, pleading |
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| imploringly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, importunately, pleadingly |
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| implosion | (noun) the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant | - |
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| (noun) a sudden inward collapse | - |
| imply | (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: connote |
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| (verb) suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic | - |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, mean |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: involve |
| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: incriminate, inculpate |
| impolite | (adjective) not polite | - |
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| impolitely | (adverb) in an impolite manner | Synonyms: discourteously, rudely |
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| impoliteness | (noun) a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage | - |
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| impolitic | (adjective) not politic | - |
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| imponderable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision | - |
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| (noun) a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed | - |
| import | (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, moment |
| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, significance |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: meaning, significance, signification |
| (noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importee |
| (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: spell |
| (verb) bring in from abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) into a database or document | - |
| importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
| important | (adjective) of great significance or value | Synonyms: of import |
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| (adjective) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis | Synonyms: crucial |
| (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: significant |
| (adjective) having or suggesting a consciousness of high position | - |
| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: authoritative |
| importantly | (adverb) in an important way | - |
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| (adverb) in an important way or to an important degree | Synonyms: significantly |
| importation | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importing |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
| imported | (adjective) used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source | - |
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| importee | (noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
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| importer | (noun) someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country) | - |
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| importing | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| importunate | (adjective) persistent to the point of annoying | - |
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| (adjective) expressing persistant and earnest entreaty | - |
| importunately | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, pleadingly |
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| importunateness | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunity |
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| importune | (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: insist |
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| importunity | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunateness |
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| (noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: urgency, urging |
| impose | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, inflict, visit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: levy |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, enforce |
| imposed | (adjective) set forth authoritatively as obligatory | - |
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| imposing | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, magisterial |
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| (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, noble, stately |
| imposingly | (adverb) in an impressive manner | Synonyms: impressively |
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| imposition | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: infliction |
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| (noun) an uncalled-for burden | - |
| impossibility | (noun) an alternative that is not available | Synonyms: impossible action |
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| (noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibleness |
| impossible | (adjective) not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable | Synonyms: unacceptable |
| (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: inconceivable, out of the question, unimaginable |
| (noun) something that cannot be done | - |
| impossibleness | (noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibility |
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| impossibly | (adverb) to a degree impossible of achievement | - |
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| impost | (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: springer |
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| (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: custom, customs, customs duty |
| imposter | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| impostor | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| imposture | (noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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| impotence | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotency, powerlessness |
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| (noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | Synonyms: impotency |
| impotency | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotence, powerlessness |
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| (noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | Synonyms: impotence |
| impotent | (adjective) lacking power or ability | - |
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| (adjective) (of a male) unable to copulate | - |
| impotently | (adverb) in a helpless manner | Synonyms: helplessly |
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| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
| impounding | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impoundment, internment, poundage |
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| impoundment | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, internment, poundage |
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