Impuration (n.) Defilement; obscuration.
Impure (a.) Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
Impure (a.) Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
Impure (a.) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
Impure (a.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
Impure (a.) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.
Impure (v. t.) To defile; to pollute.
Impurely (adv.) In an impure manner.
Impureness (n.) The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.
Impurity (n.) The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
Impurity (n.) That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.
Impurity (n.) Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.
Impurpled (imp. & p. p.) of Impurple
Impurpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impurple
Impurple (v. t.) To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood.
Imputability (n.) The quality of being imputable; imputableness.
Imputable (a.) That may be imputed; capable of being imputed; chargeable; ascribable; attributable; referable.
Imputable (a.) Accusable; culpable.
Imputableness (n.) Quality of being imputable.
Imputably (adv.) By imputation.
Imputation () The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.
Imputation () Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
Imputation () A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.
Imputation () Opinion; intimation; hint.
Imputative (a.) Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed.
Imputed (imp. & p. p.) of Impute
Imputing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impute
Impute (v. t.) To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.
Impute (v. t.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.
Impute (v. t.) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
Imputer (n.) One who imputes.
Imputrescible (a.) Not putrescible.
Imrigh (n.) A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland.
In- (prep.) A prefix from Eng. prep. in, also from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force.
In- () An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.
-in () A suffix. See the Note under -ine.
In (prep.) The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.
In (prep.) With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.
In (prep.) With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light.
In (prep.) With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army.
In (prep.) With reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear.
In (prep.) With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.
In (prep.) With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God.
In (prep.) With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.
In (adv.) Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).
In (adv.) With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.
In (n.) One who is in office; -- the opposite of out.
In (n.) A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
In (v. t.) To inclose; to take in; to harvest.
Inability (n.) The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.
Inable (v. t.) See Enable.
Inablement (n.) See Enablement.
Inabstinence (n.) Want of abstinence; indulgence.
Inabstracted (a.) Not abstracted.
Inabusively (adv.) Without abuse.
Inaccessibility (n.) The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.
Inaccessible (a.) Not accessible; not to be reached, obtained, or approached; as, an inaccessible rock, fortress, document, prince, etc.
Inaccordant (a.) Not accordant; discordant.
Inaccuracies (pl. ) of Inaccuracy
Inaccuracy (n.) The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness.
Inaccuracy (n.) That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
Inaccurate (a.) Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc.
Inaccurately (adv.) In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
Inacquaintance (a.) Want of acquaintance.
Inacquiescent (a.) Not acquiescent or acquiescing.
Inaction (n.) Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.
Inactive (a.) Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.
Inactive (a.) Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer.
Inactive (a.) Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid.
Inactively (adv.) In an inactive manner.
Inactivity (n.) The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.
Inactivity (n.) Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness.
Inactose (n.) A variety of sugar, found in certain plants. It is optically inactive.
Inactuate (v. t.) To put in action.
Inactuation (n.) Operation.
Inadaptation (n.) Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.
Inadequacy (n.) The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.
Inadequate (a.) Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
Inadequation (n.) Want of exact correspondence.
Inadherent (a.) Not adhering.
Inadherent (a.) Free; not connected with the other organs.
Inadhesion (n.) Want of adhesion.
Inadmissibility (n.) The state or quality of being inadmissible, or not to be received.
Inadmissible (a.) Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed, or received; as, inadmissible testimony; an inadmissible proposition, or explanation.
-ces (pl. ) of Inadvertence
-cies (pl. ) of Inadvertency
Inadvertence (n.) Alt. of Inadvertency
Inadvertency (n.) The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence.
Inadvertency (n.) An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence.
Inadvertent (a.) Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.
Inadvisable (a.) Not advisable.
Inaffability (n.) Want of affability or sociability; reticence.
Inaffable (a.) Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.
Inaffectation (n.) Freedom from affectation; naturalness.
Inaffected (a.) Unaffected.
Inaidable (a.) Incapable of being assisted; helpless.
Inalienability (n.) The quality or state of being inalienable.
Inalienable (a.) Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.
Inalienableness (n.) The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.
Inalienably (adv.) In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.