Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 21

Inalimental (a.) Affording no aliment or nourishment.

Inalterability (n.) The quality of being unalterable or unchangeable; permanence.

Inalterable (a.) Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable.

Inamiable (a.) Unamiable.

Inamissible (a.) Incapable of being lost.

Inamorata (n.) A woman in love; a mistress.

Inamorate (a.) Enamored.

Inamoratos (pl. ) of Inamorato

Inamorato (n.) A male lover.

Inamovable (a.) Not amovable or removable.

In-and-in (n.) An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.

In and an (a. & adv.) Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.

Inane (a.) Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.

Inane (n.) That which is void or empty.

Inangular (a.) Not angular.

Inaniloquent (a.) Alt. of Inaniloquous

Inaniloquous (a.) Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous.

Inanimate (v. t.) To animate.

Inanimate (a.) Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances.

Inanimated (a.) Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated.

Inanimateness (n.) The quality or state of being inanimate.

Inanimation (n.) Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.

Inanimation (n.) Infusion of life or vigor; animation; inspiration.

Inanitiate (v. t.) To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment.

Inanitiation (n.) Inanition.

Inanition (n.) The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.

Inanities (pl. ) of Inanity

Inanity (n.) Inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness.

Inanity (n.) Want of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity.

Inanity (n.) An inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object; -- chiefly in pl.; as, the inanities of the world.

Inantherate (a.) Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens.

In antis () Between antae; -- said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building. See Anta.

Inapathy (n.) Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.

Inappealable (a.) Not admitting of appeal; not appealable.

Inappeasable (a.) Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.

Inappellability (n.) The quality of being inappellable; finality.

Inappellable (a.) Inappealable; final.

Inappetence (n.) Alt. of Inappetency

Inappetency (n.) Want of appetency; want of desire.

Inapplicability (n.) The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.

Inapplicable (a.) Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case.

Inapplication (n.) Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

Inapposite (a.) Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent.

Inappreciable (a.) Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated.

Inappreciation (n.) Want of appreciation.

Inapprehensible (a.) Not apprehensible; unintelligible; inconceivable.

Inapprehension (n.) Want of apprehension.

Inapprehensive (a.) Not apprehensive; regardless; unconcerned.

Inapproachable (a.) Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled.

Inappropriate (a.) Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for.

Inapt (a.) Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.

Inaptitude (n.) Want of aptitude.

Inaquate (a.) Embodied in, or changed into, water.

Inaquation (n.) The state of being inaquate.

Inarable (a.) Not arable.

Inarched (imp. & p. p.) of Inarch

Inarching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inarch

Inarch (v. t.) To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach.

Inarching (n.) A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.

Inarticulate (a.) Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words.

Inarticulate (a.) Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm.

Inarticulate (a.) Without a hinge; -- said of an order (Inarticulata or Ecardines) of brachiopods.

Inarticulate (a.) Incapable of articulating.

Inarticulated (a.) Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.

Inarticulately (adv.) In an inarticulate manner.

Inarticulateness (n.) The state or quality of being inarticulate.

Inarticulation (n.) Inarticulateness.

Inartificial (a.) Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art; natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial character.

Inasmuch (adv.) In like degree; in like manner; seeing that; considering that; since; -- followed by as. See In as much as, under In, prep.

Inattention (n.) Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect.

Inattentive (a.) Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit.

Inaudibility (n.) The quality of being inaudible; inaudibleness.

Inaudible (a.) Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent.

Inaugur (v. t.) To inaugurate.

Inaugural (a.) Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

Inaugural (n.) An inaugural address.

Inaugurate (a.) Invested with office; inaugurated.

Inaugurated (imp. & p. p.) of Inaugurate

Inaugurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inaugurate

Inaugurate (v. t.) To introduce or induct into an office with suitable ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king.

Inaugurate (v. t.) To cause to begin, esp. with formality or solemn ceremony; hence, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate; -- used especially of something of dignity or worth or public concern; as, to inaugurate a new era of things, new methods, etc.

Inaugurate (v. t.) To celebrate the completion of, or the first public use of; to dedicate, as a statue.

Inaugurate (v. t.) To begin with good omens.

Inauguration (n.) The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.

Inauguration (n.) The formal beginning or initiation of any movement, course of action, etc.; as, the inauguration of a new system, a new condition, etc.

Inaugurator (n.) One who inaugurates.

Inauguratory (a.) Suitable for, or pertaining to, inauguration.

Inaurate (a.) Covered with gold; gilded.

Inaurate (v. t.) To cover with gold; to gild.

Inauration (n.) The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

Inauspicate (a.) Inauspicious.

Inauspicious (a.) Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.

Inauthoritative (a.) Without authority; not authoritative.

Inbarge (v. t. & i.) To embark; to go or put into a barge.

Inbeaming (n.) Shining in.

Inbeing (n.) Inherence; inherent existence.

Inbind (v. t.) To inclose.

Inblown (a.) Blown in or into.

Inboard (a. & adv.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

Inboard (a. & adv.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.

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