| inductor | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductance |
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| indue | (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, invest |
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| indulge | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, pander |
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| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| (verb) give free rein to | - |
| indulgence | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulging, pampering |
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| (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, lunacy, tomfoolery |
| (noun) the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution | - |
| (noun) an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires | Synonyms: self-indulgence |
| (noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: lenience, leniency |
| indulgent | (adjective) characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone | - |
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| (adjective) being favorably inclined | - |
| (adjective) tolerant or lenient | Synonyms: lenient, soft |
| indulgently | (adverb) in an indulgent manner | - |
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| indulging | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, pampering |
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| indument | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indumentum |
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| indumentum | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indument |
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| indurate | (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, pachydermatous |
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| (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) become fixed or established | - |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, inure |
| induration | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: sclerosis |
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| indusial | (adjective) of or relating to or being an indusium | - |
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| indusium | (noun) a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern | - |
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| industrial | (adjective) having highly developed industries | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from industry | - |
| (adjective) employed in industry | - |
| (adjective) suitable to stand up to hard wear | - |
| industrialisation | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialization |
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| industrialise | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialize |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialize |
| industrialised | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialized |
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| industrialism | (noun) an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship | - |
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| industrialist | (noun) someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise | - |
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| industrialization | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialisation |
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| industrialize | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialise |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialise |
| industrialized | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialised |
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| industrially | (adverb) by industrial means | - |
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| industrious | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: hardworking, tireless, untiring |
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| (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, gumptious, up-and-coming |
| industriously | (adverb) in an industrious manner | - |
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| industriousness | (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: diligence, industry |
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| industry | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: manufacture |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: diligence, industriousness |
| (noun) the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise | - |
| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| indweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant |
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| (noun) activation by an inner spirit or force or principle | - |
| indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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| inebriant | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, intoxicant |
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| inebriate | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, rummy, sot, wino |
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| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
| inebriated | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, intoxicated, ripped |
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| inebriation | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drunkenness |
| inebriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| inedible | (adjective) not suitable for food | Synonyms: uneatable |
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| ineffable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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| (adjective) too sacred to be uttered | Synonyms: unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable |
| ineffably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, inexpressibly, unspeakably, unutterably |
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| ineffaceability | (noun) The quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface. | Synonyms: indelibility |
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| ineffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, uneffective |
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| (adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffectual, unable |
| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: inefficient |
| ineffectively | (adverb) in an ineffective manner | Synonyms: inefficaciously |
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| ineffectiveness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectuality, ineffectualness |
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| ineffectual | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffective, uneffective |
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| (adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffective, unable |
| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, meaningless, otiose, unavailing |
| ineffectuality | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectualness |
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| ineffectually | (adverb) in an ineffectual manner | - |
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| ineffectualness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectuality |
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| inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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| inefficaciously | (adverb) in an ineffective manner | Synonyms: ineffectively |
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| inefficaciousness | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficacy |
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| inefficacy | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficaciousness |
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| inefficiency | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency | - |
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| inefficient | (adjective) not producing desired results; wasteful | - |
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| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: ineffective |
| inefficiently | (adverb) in an inefficient manner | - |
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| inelaborate | (adjective) not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail | Synonyms: unelaborate |
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| inelastic | (adjective) not elastic | - |
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| inelasticity | (noun) the lack of elasticity | - |
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| inelegance | (noun) the quality of lacking refinement and good taste | - |
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| inelegant | (adjective) lacking in refinement or grace or good taste | - |
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| inelegantly | (adverb) without elegance | - |
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| ineligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being ineligible | - |
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| ineligible | (adjective) not eligible | - |
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| (adjective) prohibited by official rules | - |
| ineloquently | (adverb) without eloquence; in an inarticulate manner | Synonyms: inarticulately |
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| ineluctability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: unavoidability |
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| ineluctable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: inescapable, unavoidable |
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| ineluctably | (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: inescapably, inevitably, unavoidably |
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| inept | (adjective) generally incompetent and ineffectual | Synonyms: feckless |
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| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt |
| (adjective) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse | Synonyms: tactless |
| ineptitude | (noun) having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful | Synonyms: worthlessness |
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| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| ineptly | (adverb) with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner | Synonyms: fecklessly |
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| (adverb) in a maladroit manner | - |
| ineptness | (noun) the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose | Synonyms: unsuitability, unsuitableness |
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| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness |
| inequality | (noun) lack of equality | - |
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| inequitable | (adjective) not equitable or fair | Synonyms: unjust |
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| inequitably | (adverb) in an inequitable manner | - |
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| inequity | (noun) injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards | Synonyms: unfairness |
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| ineradicable | (adjective) not able to be destroyed or rooted out | - |
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| inerrable | (adjective) not liable to error | Synonyms: inerrant, unerring |
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| inerrancy | (noun) (Christianity) exemption from error | - |
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| inerrant | (adjective) not liable to error | Synonyms: inerrable, unerring |
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| inert | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: sluggish, soggy, torpid |
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| (adjective) unable to move or resist motion | - |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: indifferent, neutral |
| inertia | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactiveness, inactivity |
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| (noun) (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force | - |
| inertial | (adjective) of or relating to inertia | - |
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| inertness | (noun) immobility by virtue of being inert | - |
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| inescapable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctable, unavoidable |
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| inescapably | (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: ineluctably, inevitably, unavoidably |
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| inessential | (adjective) not basic or fundamental | Synonyms: unessential |
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| (adjective) not absolutely necessary | - |
| (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: nonessential |
| inessentiality | (noun) not of basic importance | - |
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| inestimable | (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, incomputable |
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| inevitability | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitableness |
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| inevitable | (adjective) incapable of being avoided or prevented | - |
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| (adjective) invariably occurring or appearing | - |
| (noun) an unavoidable event | - |
| inevitableness | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitability |
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| inevitably | (adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: necessarily, needs, of necessity |
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| (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: ineluctably, inescapably, unavoidably |
| inexact | (adjective) not exact | - |
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| inexactitude | (noun) the quality of being inexact | Synonyms: inexactness |
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| inexactly | (adverb) in an imprecise manner | Synonyms: imprecisely |
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| inexactness | (noun) the quality of being inexact | Synonyms: inexactitude |
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| inexcusable | (adjective) without excuse or justification | - |
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| (adjective) not excusable | Synonyms: unforgivable |
| inexcusably | (adverb) in an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree | Synonyms: unforgivably, unpardonably |
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| (adverb) without any excuse | Synonyms: unjustifiably |
| inexhaustibility | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to exhaust; of being unlimited. | - |
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| inexhaustible | (adjective) incapable of being entirely consumed or used up | - |
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| (adjective) that cannot be entirely consumed or used up | Synonyms: unlimited |
| inexhaustibly | (adverb) with indefatigable energy | Synonyms: indefatigably, tirelessly |
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| inexorability | (noun) mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up | Synonyms: inexorableness, relentlessness |
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