Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 38

Inexperience (n.) Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.

Inexperienced (a.) Not having experience unskilled.

Inexpert (a.) Destitute of experience or of much experience.

Inexpert (a.) Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.

Inexpertness (n.) Want of expertness or skill.

Inexpiable (a.) Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense.

Inexpiable (a.) Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable.

Inexpiableness (n.) Quality of being inexpiable.

Inexpiably (adv.) In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement.

Inexpiate (a.) Not appeased or placated.

Inexplainable (a.) Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.

Inexpleably (adv.) Insatiably.

Inexplicability (n.) The quality or state of being inexplicable.

Inexplicable (a.) Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery.

Inexplicableness (n.) A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability.

Inexplicably (adv.) In an inexplicable manner.

Inexplicit (a.) Not explicit; not clearly stated; indefinite; vague.

Inexplorable (a.) Incapable of being explored, searched out, or discovered.

Inexplosive (a.) Not explosive.

Inexposure (n.) A state of not being exposed.

Inexpressible (a.) Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure.

Inexpressibles (n. pl.) Breeches; trousers.

Inexpressibly (adv.) In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably.

Inexpressive (a.) Inexpressible.

Inexpressive (a.) Without expression or meaning; not expressive; dull; unintelligent; as, an inexpressive countenance.

Inexpressiveness (n.) The state or quality of being inexpressive.

Inexpugnable (a.) Incapable of being subdued by force; impregnable; unconquerable.

Inexpugnably (adv.) So as to be inexpugnable; in an inexpugnable manner.

Inexsuperable (a.) Not capable of being passed over; insuperable; insurmountable.

Inextended (a.) Not extended.

Inextensible (a.) Not capable of being extended; not elastic; as, inextensible fibers.

Inextension (n.) Want of extension; unextended state.

Inexterminable (a.) Incapable of extermination.

Inextinct (a.) Not quenched; not extinct.

Inextinguible (a.) Inextinguishable.

Inextinguishable (a.) Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds.

Inextinguishably (adv.) So as not to be extinguished; in an inextinguishable manner.

Inextirpable (a.) Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.

Inextricable (a.) Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.

Inextricable (a.) Inevitable.

Inextricableness (n.) The state of being inextricable.

Inextricably (adv.) In an inextricable manner.

Ineyed (imp. & p. p.) of Ineye

Ineyeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ineye

Ineye (v. t.) To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate.

Infabricated (a.) Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural.

Infallibilist (n.) One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility.

Infallibility (n.) The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability.

Infallible (a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.

Infallible (a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.

Infallible (a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.

Infallibleness (n.) The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility.

Infallibly (adv.) In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly.

Infame (v. t.) To defame; to make infamous.

Infamized (imp. & p. p.) of Infamize

Infamizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infamize

Infamize (v. t.) To make infamous; to defame.

Infamous (a.) Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer.

Infamous (a.) Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.

Infamous (a.) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.

Infamous (a.) Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous.

Infamously (adv.) In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully.

Infamousness (n.) The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.

Infamies (pl. ) of Infamy

Infamy (n.) Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.

Infamy (n.) A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.

Infamy (n.) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.

Infancy (n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

Infancy (n.) The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.

Infancy (n.) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

Infandous (a.) Too odious to be expressed or mentioned.

Infangthef (n.) The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords.

Infant (n.) A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.

Infant (n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.

Infant (n.) Same as Infante.

Infant (a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

Infant (a.) Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

Infant (v. t.) To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general.

Infanta (n.) A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.

Infante (n.) A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.

Infanthood (n.) Infancy.

Infanticidal (a.) Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.

Infanticide (n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

Infanticide (n.) One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.

Infantile (a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.

Infantine (a.) Infantile; childish.

Infantlike (a.) Like an infant.

Infantly (a.) Like an infant.

Infantry (n.) A body of children.

Infantry (n.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.

Infarce (v. t.) To stuff; to swell.

Infarction (n.) The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

Infare (n.) A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house.

Infashionable (a.) Unfashionable.

Infatigable (a.) Indefatigable.

Infatuate (a.) Infatuated.

Infatuated (imp. & p. p.) of Infatuate

Infatuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infatuate

Infatuate (v. t.) To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment.

Infatuate (v. t.) To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming.

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