| inst | (adjective) in or of the present month | Synonyms: instant |
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| instability | (noun) the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute | Synonyms: unstableness |
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| (noun) unreliability attributable to being unstable | - |
| (noun) an unstable order | - |
| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, unbalance |
| instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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| instagood | (adjective) likely to get many upvotes on Instagram | - |
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| instal | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: install, put in, set up |
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| (verb) place | Synonyms: establish, install, set up |
| (verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: install |
| instalike | (noun) something that is so good that it deserves to be instantly voted for on social media | - |
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| (verb) to instantly vote for something on social media | - |
| install | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: instal, put in, set up |
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| (verb) place | Synonyms: establish, instal, set up |
| (verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: instal |
| installation | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installing, installment, instalment |
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| (noun) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry | Synonyms: facility |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: induction, initiation |
| installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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| installment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, instalment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, instalment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: instalment |
| (noun) a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals | - |
| instalment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, installment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, installment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: installment |
| instance | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, representative |
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| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, example |
| (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, illustrate |
| instancy | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: imperativeness |
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| (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness |
| instant | (adjective) occurring with no delay | Synonyms: instantaneous |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent |
| (adjective) in or of the present month | Synonyms: inst |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: minute, moment, second |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| instantaneous | (adjective) occurring with no delay | Synonyms: instant |
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| instantaneously | (adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantly, outright |
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| instantaneousness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instancy |
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| instantiate | (verb) find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) | - |
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| (verb) represent by an instance | - |
| instantiation | (noun) a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it | - |
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| instantly | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| (adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantaneously, outright |
| instar | (noun) an insect or other arthropod between molts | - |
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| instauration | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, institution, introduction, origination |
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| instead | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: alternatively, or else |
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| (adverb) on the contrary | Synonyms: rather |
| instep | (noun) the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot | - |
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| (noun) the arch of the foot | - |
| instigant | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigator, provoker |
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| instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
| instigation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: fomentation |
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| (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abetment, abettal |
| instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| instigator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: initiator |
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| (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, provoker |
| instil | (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instill |
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| instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
| (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
| instillation | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillment, instilment |
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| (noun) a liquid that is instilled drop by drop | - |
| instillator | (noun) medical apparatus that puts a liquid into a cavity drop by drop | - |
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| instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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| instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
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| instilment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instillment |
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| instinct | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: imbued, replete |
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| (noun) inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli | Synonyms: inherent aptitude |
| instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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| instinctively | (adverb) as a matter of instinct | - |
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| institute | (noun) an association organized to promote art or science or education | - |
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| (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: bring |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant |
| institution | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | - |
| (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
| (noun) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | - |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: establishment |
| institutional | (adjective) organized as or forming an institution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or constituting or involving an institution | - |
| (adjective) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative | Synonyms: uninteresting |
| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalised | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalized |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalized |
| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| institutionalized | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalised |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalised |
| institutionally | (adverb) by an institution | - |
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| instroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving away from the crankshaft | - |
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| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| instruction | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, program line, statement |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: direction |
| instructional | (adjective) of or relating to or used in instruction | - |
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| instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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| instructively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: informatively |
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| instructor | (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: teacher |
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| instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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| instructress | (noun) a woman instructor | - |
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| instrument | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: tool |
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| (noun) a device that requires skill for proper use | - |
| (noun) any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | Synonyms: musical instrument |
| (noun) (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | Synonyms: legal document, legal instrument, official document |
| (noun) the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | Synonyms: instrumental role |
| (noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, pawn |
| (verb) address a legal document to | - |
| (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
| (verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
| instrumental | (adjective) relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments | - |
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| (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, subservient |
| instrumentalism | (noun) a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success | - |
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| instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
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| instrumentality | (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentation, means |
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| (noun) the quality of being instrumental for some purpose | - |
| (noun) a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose | - |
| instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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| instrumentation | (noun) the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation | - |
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| (noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: orchestration |
| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, means |
| (noun) the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra | - |