English Wordbook/I

Staff I of the English Wordbook.

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inception	n	beginning, onset
incomplete	n	underdone, less than whole, unwhole, underwhole
injure	vb	scathe
intern	n	inworker
international	n	lands amongst
interpol	n	worldwatcher
interpret	vb	outlay
interuption	n	underbreaking
intervention	n	tweencoming
interview	n	askencespeak
inventory	n	goodslist
ion	n	streamote
ionosphere	n	streamlayer
irigate	n	beflow, bewater
iris	n	eyebow
isobar	n	evenheavy
ivory	n	elephantbone
icthyology	n	fishlore
idea	n	wit, thought, ink, thoughty, brainwave, brainchild
identical	adj	selfsame(nb. att'd)
idiosyncrasy	n	quirk
idol	n	afgod, false god, devilgold
igloo	n	icehouse
ignite	vb	fang afire, kindle, light, spark, fire
ignorance	n	unskill, dullness, unknowingness, witlessness, unwitness
ignorant	adj	dumb, dull, unknowing, witless, loreless, unwittened, backward, benighted, untaught, bookless
ignore	vb	snub, overlook, unheed
ignus fatuus	n	will-o-the-wisp
ill-conceived	adj	misbegotten, ill-thought-up
illegal	adj	unlawful, unrightful, wrong
illegalise	vb	ban, outlaw, make unlawful
illegimate	adj	misbegotten, ill-gotten, unrightful
illuminate	vb	belighten
illumination	n	belightening
illusion	n	dream, bedevilment,
imitate	vb	ape
imitation	n	aping, fake, pinchbeck, ersatz
impale	vb	gride, skewer, spit, thrill through, forthrill, run through
image	n	picture, onlyness
imagination	n	mind('s) eye, mindsight
imaginative	adj	witty, clever, thoughtful
imagine	vb	see in (one's) mind('s) eye, mindsee, think of
immature	adj	childish, young, youthful, green, unripe, underripe, babyish, untimely
immediately	adv	swithsoon, right now/away, forthwith, ayenow, alnow
immigrant	n	incomer, inwanderer, comeling, drifter
immigrate	vb	inwander
immigration	n	inwandering
imminent	adj	bearing nigh, withbearing
immoral	adj	sinful, wrongful, unrighteous
immortal	adj	undying, everlasting, deathless, undeadly, unkillable
immutable	adj	unbending, unbroken, steadfast, ungiving, unyielding, unwendlike, unchanging, neverwent
impact	n	strike, blow, hit, weight, burden, knock-on, aftermath, bearing upon, shock, meaning,
impair	vb	blight, harm, hurt, put back, hinder, undermine, eat away
impartial	adj	evenhanded, fair-minded, unswayed, dealing with all alike
impassive	adj	cool, cold, unmoved, unfeelingly, deadpan, wooden
impede	vb	hinder, let, hold back, slow, stunt
impenetrable	adj	neverbroken, fast
imperialism	n	overlordship, banishness
implode	vb	inburst, fall in
implore	vb	beseech, bid, beg, pray
imply	vb	hint, infold
impolite	adj	menseless, cheeky, lewd, unseeming, unseemly
importance	n	standing, meaning, weightiness
important	adj	weighty, meaningful, high-standing
impose	vb	saddle, foist
impossible	adj	undoughtbefall, undowedbefall
imprint	n	mark, stamp, inthrick
impromptu	adj	offhand
improper	adj	unseemly, uncomely, untoward, unbecoming
improve	vb	make better, better, booten
improvised	adj	makeshift, jury-rigged
impudence	n	gall
inadvertence	n	oversight, unmindfulness, heedlessness, carelessness, wrecklessness
inane	adj	mindless
inanimate	adj	without life, still
inappropriate	adj	unfitting, unbecoming, unbeseeming
inaudible	adj	unherad, neverheard, unhearable, unhearbear
incarnation	n	like, manishness(human incarnation), befleshness, infleshness, fleshtaking, fleshhood,
incarnation	phr	being in the flesh
in case	conj	lest, for fear that, the less
incision	n	cut, slit
incisive	adj	cutting
incite	vb	goad, egg
inclination	n	bent, mindbent
incline	n	slope
inclined	adj	minded
include	vb & phr	inclose, put in, let -in, number among, put together, be made up out of,
inconsiderate	adj	thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking, careless, ruthless, reckless
incorporated	adj	onelikened
incorrect	adj	untrue, wrong, unyearight
increase	vb	eke, wax, rise, grow
increasingly	adv	more and more
incredible	adj	unbelievable, wonderful, unseen, unheard-of, untrustworthy, unbelieffast
incursion	n	raid, inroad
incus	n	anvil
indebted	adj	beholden, guilted
indecent	adj	shameless, unseemly, shameful, unsightful
indecisive	adj	wavering, in two minds, swithering, halting, half-hearted, half-minded, unmeting
independent	adj	standalone, unoffhanging, selfstanding
independence	n	lonestance, selfhood, lonemood, unoffhangingness, selfstandship
indicate	vb	show, betoken, bespeak, hint at, bode
indication	n	betokening, hint, clue
indigent	adj	needy
indiscriminately	adv	swoopstake, shilly-shally
indisposed	adj	unwell, sickened, not so well, mildly ill, slighty sick, illish, ailing, unfit, untrim
individual	n	one, yea-one
indocrinate	vb	becreed
indocrinated	adj	creed-bound, creed-trothen
indocrination	n	creed-teaching, becreeding
indolent	adj	lazy, idle, shiftless, slothful, aswolke, listless
induce	vb	lead to, teach
industry	n	bulkbuildship
industrial action	n	strike
industrious	adj	hard working, worksome, tireless
inebriated	adj	drunk, besotted
ineffable	adj	unspeakable
ineffective	adj	toothless
inept	adj	clueless, unhandy, clumsy
inert	adj	still, unmoving, lifeless, idle
inexperienced	adj	unfledged, callow
infamy	n	badname, badness, lowstanding, ill-name, loathsomeness, shamefulness, wickedness, wrongness, forcouthness
infancy	n	bairnhood, childhood, cradlehood, babytime
infant	n	newborn, child, baby, toddler
infanticide	n	childslaughter
infection	n	smittle
infect	vb	smittle
infectious	adj	smittle, catchy, smittlesome
inferior	n & adj	worse, lower, lesser
infernal'	adj	fiendish, hellish, wicked, underhanded, evil, ill, hateful, all-fired
infertile	adj	geld, unteeming
infidelity	n	untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, swikedom, lie
infinite	adj	unrim, unmetely, endless, timeless, everlasting
infinity	n	unending, forever, eke
inflammation	n	burning, redness, soreness, swelling, itch
influence	vb	sway, shape
inflict	vb	wreak, lay on
influenza	n	haingles, grippe
influx	n	inflow
information	n	word
infuriating	adj	maddening, angering
infuse	v	inset, input, inlay
ingenuity	n	braininess, brightness, mindquickness, giftedness, wondrous of mind, mastermindiness; cleverness, cunningness, canniness, nimble-mindedness, nimbled-wittedness
ingest	vb	eat, take in
ingestion	n	intake
inhabit	vb	dwell, erde, alive, abide, wone
inhabitance	n	abode, dwelling, erding,(erding in sorrow), erdingstow,
inhabitant	n	dweller, indweller (Scots), erd-folk
inhale	vb	breathe in
inherent	adj	built-in, inborn, inbred, indwelling
inherit	vb	to come from, bequeath, hand down, erve/earve, bee(a)rve
inheritance	n	earf, earfdeal, birthright, birthdom, birth-hood
inimical	adj	foesome
initial	adj	first, beginning, early
initiate	vb	start, begin
injection	n	needleprick
injure	vb	harm, scathe, wound, mar
innate	adj	inborn
innocent	adj	guiltless, baneless
innocuous	adj	harmless, baneless
innovative	adj	groundbreaking
innovator	n	groundbreaker, trendsetter
inquire	vb	ask, underseek/ seek under
insane	adj	mad
inscribe	vb	write
insect	n	bug, golach
insensitive	adj	unfeeling
inseparable	adj	bound, bound up, hand-in-hand, forever one, thick, unasunderlike
insert	vb	inset
inspiration	n	inbreath, brainchild, brainwave
inspire	vb	besoul (calque of dutch 'bezielen')
instance	n	lodestar, loadstar, earnestness
instantly	adv	in no time, taking no time
institute	vb	set up
institution	n	body
instruct	vb	teach, learn, loren
insult	n	slight, slur, lambast
insurance	n	foresafety
integer	n	whole number
intellectual1	n	high-mind, thinkster, wit, thinker
intellectual2	adj	mindwise, high-minded, witty, thoughtful
intelligent	adj	smart, clever, wise, learned, sharp witted
intend	vb	mean, will, wish
intense	adj	burning, hardspun, strong-willed, strong-feeling, keen
intention	n	will, wish
inter	vb	bury, begrave, bedelve
intercept	vb	waylay, cut off
interdict	vb	forbid
interfere	vb	pry, hinder
interest	n	right, share, stake, deal, doing, end, gain, gleanings, goodwill; (on money) yield, loanyield, geldyield
interesting	n	heedworthy
interim/interval	n	midtime, (long) far-between, midwhile
interior	n	inside, inner
internal	adj	inland, inner, inner-bodily
internet	n	innernet, (the world wide) web, twixtnet
interpret	vb	awend, aread, read into
intestine	n	innard, tharm, gut
intimidate	vb	scare, frighten, overawe
intoxicated	adj	drunken
introduction	n	lead-in(att'd)
introduce	vb	make known, lead in
inundate	vb	flood, whelm, overwhelm, overythe
invade	vb	overrun, inwade, herefare, beset, storm in, swarm over, thrust upon
invasion	n	overrun, inslaught, herefore
invaluable	adj	yealief, yeadear, uncheap, forworthy
invent	vb	frame, work, think up, make up
invertebrate	vb	unbackboned
invest	vb	wend(change money or office), buy a share in, buy a stake in, umclap,
investor	n	shareholder, stakeholder
investigate	v	unwhelm, underseek/ seek under, look into
investigation	n	underseeking,
invisible	adj	unwisely, unseen, unseeable, unsightbear
invite	n & vb	welcome
involve	vb	intangle, inbind, inwalk, wrap up in
iota	n	shred, whit, aught
ipseity	n	ass
irascible	adj	prickly, feisty, edgy, churlish, bearish, outburstish, highly-strung, anger-easy, wrathy, wrongheaded, crankisome
ire	n	anger, wrath
irresponsible	adj	reckless, heedless, careless, thoughtless, unmindful, unthinking
irritate	vb	irk
irritating	adj	irksome, swinksome, tiresome, angering,
island	n	aitland, iland, ait, eyot, ealand, holm
isolation	n	loneliness, alonehood, asideness
islet	n	ait, eyot, ilanding