| 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 | - |