Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 10

Immature (a.) Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.

Immatured (a.) Immature.

Immaturely (adv.) In an immature manner.

Immatureness (n.) The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.

Immaturity (n.) The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

Immeability (n.) Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness.

Immeasurability (n.) The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability.

Immeasurable (a.) Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.

Immeasurableness (n.) The state or quality of being immeasurable.

Immeasurably (adv.) In an immeasurable manner or degree.

Immeasured (a.) Immeasurable.

Immechanical (a.) Not mechanical.

Immediacy (n.) The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

Immediate (a.) Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

Immediate (a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.

Immediate (a.) Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.

Immediately (adv.) In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.

Immediately (adv.) Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.

Immediately (adv.) As soon as. Cf. Directly, 8, Note.

Immediateness (n.) The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

Immedeatism (n.) Immediateness.

Immedicable (a.) Not to be healed; incurable.

Immelodious (a.) Not melodious.

Immemorable (a.) Not memorable; not worth remembering.

Immemorial (a.) Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.

Immemorially (adv.) Beyond memory.

Immense (a.) Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.

Immensely (adv.) In immense manner or degree.

Immenseness (n.) The state of being immense.

Immensible (a.) Immeasurable.

Immensities (pl. ) of Immensity

Immensity (n.) The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.

Immensive (a.) Huge.

Immensurability (n.) The quality of being immensurable.

Immensurable (a.) Immeasurable.

Immensurate (a.) Unmeasured; unlimited.

Immerged (imp. & p. p.) of Immerge

Immerging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immerge

Immerge (v. t.) To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse.

Immerge (v. i.) To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.

Immerit (n.) Want of worth; demerit.

Immerited (a.) Unmerited.

Immeritous (a.) Undeserving.

Immersable (a.) See Immersible.

Immerse (a.) Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

Immersed (imp. & p. p.) of Immerse

Immersing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immerse

Immerse (v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.

Immerse (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

Immerse (v. t.) To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.

Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.

Immersed (p. p. & a.) Growing wholly under water.

Immersible (a.) Capable of being immersed.

Immersible (a.) Not capable of being immersed.

Immersion (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

Immersion (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.

Immersion (n.) The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.

Immersion (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.

Immersionist (n.) One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.

Immeshed (imp. & p. p.) of Immesh

Immeshing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immesh

Immesh (v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

Immethodical (a.) Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.

Immethodically (adv.) Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.

Immethodicalness (n.) Want of method.

Immethodize (v. t.) To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse.

Immetrical (a.) Not metrical or rhythmical.

Immew (v. t.) See Emmew.

Immigrant (n.) One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Immigrated (imp. & p. p.) of Immigrate

Immigrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immigrate

Immigrate (v. t.) To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.

Immigration (n.) The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

Imminence (n.) The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress.

Imminence (n.) That which is imminent; impending evil or danger.

Imminent (a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.

Imminent (a.) Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.

Imminent (a.) (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.

Imminently (adv.) In an imminent manner.

Immingle (v. t.) To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend.

Imminution (n.) A lessening; diminution; decrease.

Immiscibility (n.) Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.

Immiscible (a.) Not capable of being mixed or mingled.

Immission (n.) The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

Immitted (imp. & p. p.) of Immit

Immiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immit

Immit (v. t.) To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.

Immitigable (a.) Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased.

Immitigably (adv.) In an immitigable manner.

Immix (v. t.) To mix; to mingle.

Immixable (a.) Not mixable.

Immixed (a.) Unmixed.

Immixture (n.) Freedom from mixture; purity.

Immobile (a.) Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.

Immobility (n.) The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

Immobilize (v. t.) To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

Immoble (a.) See Immobile.

Immoderacy (n.) Immoderateness.

Immoderancy (n.) Immoderateness; excess.

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