| 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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| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| impoverished | (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: broken, wiped out |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |