inexorable | (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
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(adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, intransigent |
inexorableness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up | Synonyms: inexorability, relentlessness |
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inexorably | (adverb) in an inexorable manner | - |
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inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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inexpediency | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpedience |
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inexpedient | (adjective) not suitable or advisable | - |
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(adjective) not appropriate to the purpose | Synonyms: unwise |
inexpediently | (adverb) in an inexpedient manner | - |
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inexpensive | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: cheap |
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inexpensively | (adverb) with little expenditure of money | Synonyms: cheaply |
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(adverb) in a cheap manner | Synonyms: cheaply, tattily |
inexpensiveness | (noun) the quality of being affordable | - |
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inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
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inexperienced | (adjective) lacking practical experience or training | Synonyms: inexperient |
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inexperient | (adjective) lacking practical experience or training | Synonyms: inexperienced |
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inexpert | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, amateurish, unskilled |
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inexpertly | (adverb) in a crude and unskilled manner | Synonyms: artlessly, crudely |
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inexpiable | (adjective) incapable of being atoned for | - |
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inexplicable | (adjective) incapable of being explained or accounted for | Synonyms: incomprehensible |
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inexplicably | (adverb) in a manner differing from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curiously, oddly, peculiarly |
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inexplicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: implicit |
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inexplicitness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of not being explicit | - |
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inexpressible | (adjective) defying expression | Synonyms: unexpressible |
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inexpressibly | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, ineffably, unspeakably, unutterably |
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inexpressive | (adjective) not expressive | - |
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inexpressively | (adverb) without expression; in an inexpressive manner | - |
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inexpugnable | (adjective) incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted | Synonyms: impregnable |
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inexpungeable | (adjective) not capable of being expunged | Synonyms: inexpungible |
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inexpungible | (adjective) not capable of being expunged | Synonyms: inexpungeable |
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inextensible | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: nonextensile, nonprotractile |
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inexterminable | (adjective) incapable of extermination or extirpation | Synonyms: inextirpable |
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inextinguishable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to extinguish | - |
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inextirpable | (adjective) incapable of extermination or extirpation | Synonyms: inexterminable |
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inextricable | (adjective) not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied | - |
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inextricably | (adverb) in an inextricable manner | - |
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infallibility | (noun) the quality of never making an error | - |
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infallible | (adjective) incapable of failure or error | - |
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infamous | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, notorious |
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infamy | (noun) a state of extreme dishonor | Synonyms: opprobrium |
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(noun) evil fame or public reputation | - |
infancy | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: babyhood |
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(noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: babyhood, early childhood |
infant | (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: babe, baby |
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infanticide | (noun) murdering an infant | - |
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(noun) a person who murders an infant | - |
infantile | (adjective) of or relating to infants or infancy | - |
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(adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: childish |
(adjective) being or befitting or characteristic of an infant | - |
infantilism | (noun) infantile behavior in mature persons | - |
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(noun) an abnormal condition in which an older child or adult retains infantile characteristics | - |
infantry | (noun) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot | Synonyms: foot |
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infantryman | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, footslogger, marcher |
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infarct | (noun) localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply | Synonyms: infarction |
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infarction | (noun) localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply | Synonyms: infarct |
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infatuate | (verb) arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way | - |
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infatuated | (adjective) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness | Synonyms: enamored, in love, potty, smitten, soft on, taken with |
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infatuation | (noun) an object of extravagant short-lived passion | - |
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(noun) a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration | - |
(noun) temporary love of an adolescent | Synonyms: calf love, crush, puppy love |
infeasibility | (noun) the quality of not being doable | Synonyms: unfeasibility |
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infeasible | (adjective) not capable of being carried out or put into practice | Synonyms: impracticable, unfeasible, unworkable |
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infect | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: taint |
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(verb) communicate a disease to | - |
(verb) affect in a contagious way | - |
(verb) corrupt with ideas or an ideology | - |
infected | (adjective) containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms | Synonyms: septic |
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infection | (noun) moral corruption or contamination | - |
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(noun) (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure | - |
(noun) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people | Synonyms: contagion |
(noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: contagion, transmission |
(noun) (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease | - |
(noun) (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound | - |
(noun) the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms | - |
infectious | (adjective) easily spread | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to infection | - |
(adjective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection | Synonyms: infective |
infectiously | (adverb) in a contagious manner | Synonyms: contagiously |
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infective | (adjective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection | Synonyms: infectious |
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(adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: morbific, pathogenic |
infelicitous | (adjective) not appropriate in application; defective | - |
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(adjective) marked by or producing unhappiness | Synonyms: unhappy |
infelicitously | (adverb) in an infelicitous manner | - |
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infelicity | (noun) inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | - |
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infer | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, deduct, derive |
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(verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: understand |
(verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing | Synonyms: guess |
(verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: deduce |
(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, generalize |
inference | (noun) the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation | Synonyms: illation |
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inferential | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: illative |
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(adjective) derived or capable of being derived by inference | - |
(adjective) based on interpretation; not directly expressed | - |
(adjective) of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion | - |
(adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: illative |
inferior | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: subscript |
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(adjective) of or characteristic of low rank or importance | - |
(adjective) of low or inferior quality | - |
(adjective) having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit | - |
(adjective) lower than a given reference point | - |
(adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: deficient, substandard |
(noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: subscript |
(noun) one of lesser rank or station or quality | - |
inferiority | (noun) an inferior quality | Synonyms: low quality |
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(noun) the quality of being a competitive disadvantage | Synonyms: unfavorable position |
(noun) the state of being inferior | Synonyms: lower rank, lower status |
infernal | (adjective) being of the underworld | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of or resembling Hell | - |
(adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire | - |
(adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned |
(adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, satanic, unholy |
(noun) an inhabitant of Hell | - |
infernally | (adverb) diabolically | Synonyms: hellishly |
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inferno | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: conflagration |
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(noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits |
infertile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: sterile, unfertile |
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infertility | (noun) the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate | Synonyms: sterility |
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infest | (verb) invade in great numbers | Synonyms: overrun |
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(verb) live on or in a host, as of parasites | - |
(verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: invade, overrun |
infestation | (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: plague |
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(noun) the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites | - |
infidel | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, pagan |
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infidelity | (noun) the quality of being unfaithful | Synonyms: unfaithfulness |
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infield | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, diamond |
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infielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield | - |
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infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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(noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
infiltrate | (verb) pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict | Synonyms: pass through |
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(verb) cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices | - |
(verb) pass into or through by filtering or permeating | - |
(verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: penetrate |
infiltration | (noun) a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection) | - |
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(noun) the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium | Synonyms: percolation |
infiltrator | (noun) an intruder (as troops) with hostile intent | - |
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(noun) someone who takes up a position surreptitiously for the purpose of espionage | - |
infinite | (adjective) having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude | - |
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(adjective) (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive) | Synonyms: non-finite, nonfinite |
(adjective) total and all-embracing | - |
(adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
(noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: space |
infinitely | (adverb) continuing forever without end | Synonyms: endlessly |
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(adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, immeasurably |
infiniteness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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infinitesimal | (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: minute |
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(noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
infinitival | (adjective) relating to or formed with the infinitive | - |
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infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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infinitude | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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(noun) an infinite quantity | - |
infinity | (noun) time without end | Synonyms: eternity |
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infirm | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) lacking firmness of will or character or purpose | - |
infirmary | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: hospital |
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infirmity | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, valetudinarianism |
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infix | (noun) an affix that is inserted inside the word | - |
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(verb) attach a morpheme into a stem word | - |
(verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, insert, introduce |
inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
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(verb) cause inflammation in | - |
(verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
(verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
inflamed | (adjective) adorned with tongues of flame | - |
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(adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames | Synonyms: ablaze, reddened |
(adjective) resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened | - |
inflaming | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflammation |
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inflammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: flammability |
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inflammable | (adjective) easily ignited | Synonyms: flammable |
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inflammation | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflaming |
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(noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, kindling, lighting |
(noun) a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat | Synonyms: redness, rubor |
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, fervour |
inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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(adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
inflatable | (adjective) designed to be filled with air or gas | - |
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