Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/41

• idiot, alcoholic, aliene, alternating personality, ament, antisocial personality, ass, bedlamite, borderline case, born fool, clot, congenital idiot, crackbrain, crackpot, cretin, defective, dement, demoniac, disordered personality, disturbed personality, donkey, double personality, drug user, dual personality, dullard, dullhead, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, emotionally unstable personality, energumen, escapist, fanatic, flake, fou, golem, half-wit, hostile personality, hypochondriac, hypochondriast, ignoramus, imaginary invalid, imbecile, immature personality, inadequate personality, inferior personality, jackass, jerk, jester, juggins, kook, loon, loony, lunatic, madman, malade imaginaire, maladjusted personality, maniac, mentally defective personality, meshuggenah, mongoloid idiot, moral insanity, moron, motley, multiple personality, natural, natural idiot, natural-born fool, neuropath, neurotic, neurotic personality, nincompoop, ninny, noncompos, nut, paranoid personality, perverse personality, phrenetic, psychoneurotic, psychopath, psychopathic personality, psychotic, psychotic personality, raving lunatic, schizoid, schizoid personality, screwball, seclusive personality, sexual psychopath, shut-in personality, simp, simpleton, sociopath, split personality, stupid, tomfool, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak personality, weirdo, zany

• idiotic, apish, arrested, asinine, babbling, backward, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blithering, brainless, buffoonish, burbling, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, credulous, cretinistic, cretinous, daffy, daft, dazed, dithering, dizzy, doting, driveling, drooling, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, half-baked, half-witted, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, kooky, loony, mad, maudlin, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, moronic, not all there, nutty, retarded, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, stupid, subnormal, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless

• idle rich, beggar, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, leisure class, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, moocher, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, rentiers, spiv, sponger, the unemployable, the unemployed

• idle talk, babble, babblement, back-fence gossip, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitchat, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, groundless rumor, guff, hot air, jabber, mere talk, natter, newsmongering, nonsense talk, palaver, piece of gossip, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, story, tale, talebearing, taletelling, talk, talkee-talkee, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, yak, yakkety-yak

• idle, abortive, absurd, airy, amble, ambling, asinine, asleep, at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, baseless, be a sideliner, be still, bootless, brogue, bum, bum around, catchpenny, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, claudicate, coast, contemplative, coquet, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, creeping like snail, dabble, dally, dally away, dead-still, delay, deliberate, diddle, diddle away, disengaged, do nothing, do-nothing, dog it, dogtrot, dormant, drag, drag along, drag out, dribble away, drift, drivel away, drone, easy, empty, faineant, fallow, faltering, fatuitous, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, fixed, flagging, flimsy, flirt, fool, fool around, fool away, fool with, foolish, foot-dragging, free, fribble, fribbling, fritter away, frivol, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, fust, futile, gentle, go dead slow, go slow, goldbrick, goof off, gradual, groundless, halting, hang around, hang fire, hibernate, hobble, hobbled, hobbling, hollow, horse around, idle away, ill-founded, immobile, immotive, inactive, inane, inch, inch along, indolent, inert, insignificant, jerk off, jobless, jog-trot, kid around, kill, kill time, lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lallygag, languid, languorous, laze, lazy, leisure, leisured, leisurely, lethargic, lie around, lie dormant, light, limp, limping, linger, listless, loaf, loafing, loiter, loiter about, loitering, loll, loll around, lollop around, lollygag, lounge, lounge around, lumbering, lumpen, mark time, meaningless, meditative, mess around, moderate, monkey, monkey around, mooch, mooch around, moon, moon around, mosey, motionless, moveless, muddle away, neuter, neutral, not budge, not stir, nugacious, nugatory, off, off duty, off work, open, otiose, out of commission, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, piddle, piss away, play, play around, play with, pointless, poke, poke along, poking, poky, potter, potter away, procrastinating, putter, quiescent, quiet, quietist, quietistic, redundant, relax, relaxed, reluctant, repose, rest, resting, retired, riding at anchor, saunter, sauntering, semiretired, senseless, shallow, shiftless, shuffle along, shuffling, silly, sit around, sit back, sit it out, slack, sleep, sleepy, slender, slight, slothful, slouch, slouch around, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, slumber, smatter, smolder, snail-paced, snaillike, spare, stagger along, staggering, stagnant, stagnate, stagnating, stand around, standpat, static, stationary, statuelike, still, stock-still, stroll, strolling, superficial, take it easy, tarry, tentative, tinker, toddle, toddle along, toddling, tortoiselike, totter along, tottering, toy, toy with, traipse, trifle, trifle away, trifling, trite, trivial, trudging, turtlelike, twiddle, unavailing, unbased, unemployable, unemployed, unfounded, unfruitful, ungrounded, unhurried, unimportant, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unproductive, unsupportable, unsupported, unsustainable, unsustained, untenable, unused, unwarranted, useless, vacuous, vain, vapid, vegetable, vegetate, vegetative, waddle, waddling, wait and see, walk, waste, watch and wait, while away, windy, without basis, without foundation, workless, worm, worm along, worthless

• idleness, a wise passiveness, big deal, cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, dawdling, deliberateness, deliberation, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dolce far niente, dormancy, drawl, emptiness, flimsiness, foolishness, foot-dragging, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, idle hands, idle hours, immobility, inaction, inactivity, inanity, indolence, inertia, inertness, inoccupation, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, lassitude, laze, laziness, lazing, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, lethargy, levity, lightness, loafing, lollygagging, malingering, meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, nugacity, otiosity, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, pokiness, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, reluctance, shallowness, shiftlessness, shilly-shallying, shirking, silliness, slackness, slenderness, slightness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, superficiality, tentativeness, torpor, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, unemployment, vacuity, vanity, vapidity, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

• idler, Arab, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, bungler, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, disregarder, do-nothing, dodger, dogie, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, gamin, gamine, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, ignorer, laggard, landloper, lazybones, lazzarone, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, losel, lotus-eater, lounge lizard, lounger, lubber, malingerer, mope, moper, mudlark, neglecter, negligent, piker, potterer, procrastinator, putterer, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rounder, shirker, ski bum, slacker, slouch, sloucher, sloven, slug, slugabed, sluggard, slut, stick-in-the-mud, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, time killer, time waster, tramp, trifler, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, waif, waifs and strays, waiter on Providence, wastrel

• idol worship, Druidism, Parsiism, Sabaism, Zoroastrianism, animal worship, demonism, demonolatry, devil worship, fetishism, fire worship, heathenism, hero worship, iconoduly, iconolatry, idolatrousness, idolatry, idolism, idolodulia, idolomancy, image worship, paganism, phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, snake worship, star worship, sun worship, tree worship

• idol, Baal, Juggernaut, big name, celebrity, companion, constellation, copy, cosset, cynosure, darling, dea, dead ringer, deity, demigod, demigoddess, deus, deva, devi, devil-god, divinity, double, duplicate, effigy, exact likeness, false god, favorite, fellow, fetish, figure, folk hero, fondling, galaxy, god, goddess, golden calf, graven image, great man, heathen god, hero, heroine, icon, ikon, image, immortal, important person, jewel, joss, likeness, lion, living image, living picture, luminaries, luminary, man of mark, master spirit, match, mate, matinee idol, miniature, minion, mirroring, model, name, notability, notable, pagan deity, person of note, personage, pet, phoenix, photograph, picture, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, portrait, preference, public figure, reflection, resemblance, rubbing, semblance, shadow, similitude, simulacrum, social lion, somebody, spit and image, spitting image, spoiled child, star, superstar, symbol, the shining ones, trace, tracing, twin, very image, very picture, worthy

• idolater, Druid, Parsi, Sabaist, Zoroastrian, admirer, adorer, allotheist, amateur, animal worshiper, animist, anthropolater, arborolater, archaeolater, beadsman, booster, buff, celebrant, chapelgoer, chthonian, churchgoer, collector, communicant, congregation, daily communicant, demon worshiper, demonolater, dendrolater, devil worshiper, devotee, dilettante, evangelist, fan, fancier, fetishist, fire worshiper, follower, groupie, heathen, idol worshiper, idolatress, idolatrizer, idolist, idolizer, nature worshiper, ophiolater, pagan, petitioner, phallic worshiper, prayer, pyrolater, revivalist, rooter, snake worshiper, star worshiper, sun worshiper, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, theriolater, therolater, tree worshiper, venerator, votary, worshiper, zoolater

• idolatry, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, accolade, admiration, adoration, adulation, affection, agape, allotheism, animatism, animism, anthropolatry, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, arborolatry, ardency, ardor, attachment, awe, bepraisement, bibliolatry, bodily love, breathless adoration, brotherly love, caritas, charity, congratulation, conjugal love, consideration, courtesy, deference, deification, demonolatry, desire, devotion, duty, eloge, encomium, esteem, estimation, eulogium, eulogy, exaggerated respect, exaltation, excessive praise, faithful love, fancy, favor, fervor, flame, flattery, fondness, free love, free-lovism, glorification, glory, great respect, heart, heathendom, heathenism, heathenry, hero worship, high regard, homage, hommage, honor, hygeiolatry, iconolatry, idolism, idolization, idolizing, kudos, lasciviousness, laud, laudation, libido, like, liking, lionizing, litholatry, love, lovemaking, magnification, married love, meed of praise, monolatry, ophiolatry, overcommendation, overestimation, overlaudation, overpraise, overprizing, paean, pagandom, paganism, paganry, panegyric, passion, patriolatry, physical love, physiolatry, phytolatry, popular regard, popularity, praise, prestige, pyrolatry, regard, respect, reverence, reverential regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, tribute, truelove, uxoriousness, veneration, weakness, worship, yearning

• idolization, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, anthropolatry, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, arborolatry, ardency, ardor, attachment, awe, bibliolatry, bodily love, breathless adoration, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, consideration, courtesy, deference, deification, demonolatry, desire, devotion, duty, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, faithful love, fancy, favor, fervor, fetishization, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, great respect, heart, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, hygeiolatry, iconolatry, idolatry, idolism, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, litholatry, love, lovemaking, married love, monolatry, ophiolatry, passion, patriolatry, physical love, physiolatry, phytolatry, popular regard, popularity, prestige, pyrolatry, regard, respect, reverence, reverential regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, veneration, weakness, worship, yearning

• idolize, accord respect to, admire, adore, adulate, apotheosize, appreciate, belaud, bepraise, bless, blow up, boast of, brag about, celebrate, cherish, cry up, dearly love, defer to, deify, do homage to, do service, dote, emblazon, entertain respect for, esteem, eulogize, exalt, extol, favor, fetish, fetishize, flatter, glorify, hero-worship, hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, idol, idolatrize, idolify, laud, lionize, look up to, love to distraction, magnify, make much of, overcommend, overesteem, overestimate, overlaud, overpraise, overprize, panegyrize, pay homage to, pay tribute, porter aux nues, praise, prize, puff, puff up, regard, respect, revere, reverence, salute, think highly of, think much of, think well of, treasure, trumpet, value, venerate, worship

• idyll, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay

• idyllic, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Arcadian, Castalian, Edenic, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, at peace, bardic, bloodless, bucolic, calm, charming, concordant, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, epic, halcyon, heavenly, heroic, ideal, idealized, mock-heroic, narrative, orderly, pacific, pastoral, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, picturesque, piping, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, quiet, restful, rhapsodic, runic, rustic, sapphic, serene, skaldic, soft, tranquil, unspoiled, untroubled

• iffy, accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arguable, at issue, capricious, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, confutable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, destinal, dicey, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, erratic, fatal, fatidic, fluctuant, fluky, fortuitous, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, incalculable, incidental, indeterminate, mistakable, moot, open to doubt, open to question, problematic, questionable, refutable, risky, speculative, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, uncaused, undetermined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredictable, whimsical

• igloo, apse, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, archway, avalanche, blizzard, camber, ceilinged roof, concameration, concha, cove, crystal, cupola, dome, driven snow, flake, flurry, geodesic dome, granular snow, hogan, jacal, keystone, longhouse, mantle of snow, mogul, ogive, skewback, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, span, tepee, tupik, vault, vaulting, voussoir, wet snow, wickiup, wigwam

• ignis fatuus, airy nothing, autism, autoluminescence, backfire, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bioluminescence, blaze, bonfire, bubble, burning ghat, campfire, cathode luminescence, cheerful fire, chemicoluminescence, chemiluminescence, chimera, combustion, conflagration, corposant, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, crystalloluminescence, daydream, death fire, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, double corposant, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, electroluminescence, false belief, fata morgana, fen fire, fire, flame, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, fluorescence, forest fire, fox fire, funeral pyre, hallucination, ignition, illusion, ingle, lambent flame, luciferase, luciferin, luminescence, luminophor, marshfire, mirage, misbelief, misconception, noctiluscence, open fire, phantasm, phosphor, phosphorescence, photoluminescence, pipe dream, prairie fire, pyre, radioluminescence, raging fire, sea of flames, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, sheet of fire, signal beacon, smudge fire, thermoluminescence, three-alarm fire, tribofluorescence, triboluminescence, tribophosphorescence, trick, trip, two-alarm fire, vapor, watch fire, wildfire, wisp, witch fire, wrong impression

• ignite, bank, blaze up, burn, conflagrate, enkindle, fan the flame, feed, feed the fire, fire, fire up, flame up, flare up, inflame, kindle, light, light up, rekindle, relight, relume, set fire to, set on fire, spunk up, stir the fire, stoke, stoke the fire, strike a light, take fire, torch, touch off

• ignited, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, candent, candescent, comburent, conflagrant, fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, fuming, glowing, guttering, ignescent, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, kindled, lighted, live, living, on fire, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, smoking, smoldering, sparking, unextinguished, unquenched

• ignition, altitude peak, automatic control, backfire, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, blast-off, blaze, bonfire, burn, burning ghat, burnout, campfire, ceiling, cheerful fire, combustion, conflagration, corposant, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, death fire, descent, end of burning, fen fire, fire, firing, flame, flammation, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, flight, forest fire, fox fire, funeral pyre, ignis fatuus, impact, inflammation, ingle, kindling, lambent flame, launch, lift-off, lighting, lighting up, marshfire, open fire, prairie fire, pyre, raging fire, rocket launching, sea of flames, sheet of fire, shoot, shot, signal beacon, smudge fire, three-alarm fire, trajectory, two-alarm fire, velocity peak, watch fire, wildfire, witch fire

• ignobility, abominability, baseness, beastliness, commonness, commonplaceness, contemptibility, contrariety, crudeness, degradation, demotion, depluming, despicability, despicableness, disgustingness, displuming, foulness, fulsomeness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, homeliness, ignominiousness, ignominy, infamousness, infamy, ingloriousness, loathsomeness, loss of honor, lowness, meanness, nastiness, nauseousness, noisomeness, noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obloquy, obnoxiousness, obscenity, odiousness, odium, offensiveness, opprobrium, ordinariness, plebeianism, putridity, putridness, rebarbativeness, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulsiveness, rottenness, unspeakableness, vileness

• ignoble, abhorrent, abject, abominable, base, base-minded, baseborn, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, derogatory, despicable, detestable, discreditable, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, homely, humble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, inglorious, loathsome, low, low-minded, lowborn, lowly, malodorous, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, modest, nasty, nauseating, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, ordinary, peasant, plain, plebeian, poor, popular, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scrubby, scurvy, seamy, servile, shady, sickening, simple, sordid, sorry, stinking, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, unwashed, vile, vulgar, wretched

• ignominious, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, criminal, delinquent, derogatory, deviant, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, evil, hardly the thing, ignoble, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, inglorious, not done, not the thing, notorious, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, sacrilegious, scandalous, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shoddy, sinful, sordid, terrible, undue, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unrighteous, unsavory, unseemly, unsuitable, wicked, wrong, wrongful

• ignominy, abomination, atrocity, chagrin, contempt, degradation, demotion, depluming, desecration, despite, discredit, disdain, disesteem, disgrace, dishonor, displuming, disrepute, ignobility, ignominiousness, infamousness, infamy, ingloriousness, loss of honor, mortification, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pity, profanation, sacrilege, scandal, scorn, shame, terrible thing, violation

• ignoramus, abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, ass, beginner, boot, born fool, buffoon, catechumen, clown, dabbler, debutant, dilettante, doodle, dullard, dullhead, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, egregious ass, entrant, figure of fun, fledgling, fool, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, idiot, illiterate, illiterati, inductee, initiate, jackass, know-nothing, lowbrow, lunatic, middlebrow, milksop, mooncalf, moron, neophyte, new boy, newcomer, no scholar, novice, novitiate, perfect fool, postulant, probationer, probationist, puddinghead, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, schmuck, simpleton, softhead, sop, stupid, stupid ass, tenderfoot, tomfool, tyro, unintelligentsia, zany

• ignorance, Urdummheit, amateurishness, amateurism, benightedness, brainlessness, callowness, disaccustomedness, empty-headedness, foolishness, greenness, illiteracy, immaturity, incapacity, ineptitude, inexperience, innocence, irrationality, know-nothingism, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, low IQ, mental weakness, mindlessness, naivete, nescience, newness to, philistinism, primal stupidity, rawness, reasonlessness, senselessness, simpleness, simplicity, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unconversance, uncouthness, uncultivation, unenlightenment, unexperiencedness, unfamiliarity, unfledgedness, unhabituatedness, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unknowingness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism, unprofessionalness, unripeness, unsophistication, unwisdom, unwiseness, unwontedness, witlessness

• ignorant, a novice at, a stranger to, awkward, benighted, blankminded, boorish, brainless, callow, crude, disaccustomed, discourteous, dumb, empty, empty-headed, foolish, fresh, gauche, green, green as grass, groping, gross, headless, ill-mannered, illiterate, immature, impolite, in the dark, inane, incognizant, inept, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, insensate, irrational, know-nothing, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, lowbrow, mindless, naive, nescient, new to, not bright, oblivious, of little brain, pea-brained, pin-brained, raw, reasonless, rude, rusty, senseless, simple, slackminded, slackwitted, strange to, tentative, unaccustomed, unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unapprized, unaware, uncivil, uncomprehending, unconscious, unconversant, unconversant with, uncouth, uncultured, undeveloped, uneducated, unenlightened, unexperienced, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unfledged, ungifted, unhabituated, unhardened, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninitiated in, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligent, uninured, unknowing, unlearned, unlettered, unmatured, unposted, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unprogressive, unread, unreasoning, unripe, unschooled, unseasoned, unskilled in, unsophisticated, unsure, untalented, untaught, unthinking, untrained, untried, untutored, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, unwise, unwitting, unwonted, vacuous, weaned, witless

• ignore, abide with, abjure, accept, allow for, avoid, ban, bar, bar out, be big, be blind to, be caught napping, be caught out, be content with, be easy with, be inattentive, be neglectful, be negligent, be unwary, bear with, blink at, blockade, break the law, brook, brush aside, brush off, care naught for, chuck, chuck out, color, condone, connive at, contemn, contradict, count out, cut, cut dead, cut off, debar, decline, default, defy, deny, despise, digest, diminish, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, dismiss, disobey, disown, disregard, down, ease, eat, embargo, endure, evade, except, exclude, extenuate, fail, flout, forget, forswear, freeze out, give no heed, give the go-by, gloss over, go counter to, hear nothing, judge not, keep out, lapse, lean over backwards, leave out, leave unavenged, lessen, let go, let it go, let pass, let ride, let slide, let slip, listen to reason, live with, lock out, look right through, lose sight of, lose track of, make allowance for, make allowances for, make light of, make little of, mince, miss, mitigate, neglect, nod, not attend, not care for, not conform, not get involved, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind, not notice, not observe, not think, not write off, omit, ostracize, overlook, overpass, palliate, pass by, pass over, pass up, pay no attention, pay no mind, pocket, pocket the affront, pooh-pooh, preclude, prohibit, push aside, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to acknowledge, refuse to consider, refuse to cooperate, refuse to recognize, regard with indulgence, reject, relegate, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, scoff at, scout, see both sides, see nothing, send to Coventry, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, shove away, shut out, sleep, slight, slur over, snub, soft-pedal, soften, spurn, stomach, suspend judgment, swallow, swallow an insult, taboo, take, take for granted, think little of, throw away, throw out, tolerate, transgress, turn aside provocation, turn away, turn out, varnish, view with indulgence, violate, waive, whitewash, wink at

• ignored, abandoned, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, denied, deserted, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, dismissed, disowned, disregarded, excepted, excluded, forgotten, forsworn, half-done, ill-requited, ill-rewarded, laid aside, left undone, missed, neglected, not considered, omitted, overlooked, passed by, passed over, passed up, pigeonholed, put aside, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, slighted, spurned, unacknowledged, unasked, unattended to, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unconsidered, uncredited, undone, unfairly neglected, unrecognized, unregarded, unrequited, unrewarded, unsolicited, untended, unthanked, unwatched

• ileac, abdominal, anal, appendical, cardiac, cecal, colic, colonic, coronary, duodenal, enteric, gastric, intestinal, jejunal, mesogastric, pyloric, rectal, splanchnic, visceral

• ilk, blood, body-build, brand, breed, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, clan, color, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, crasis, denomination, description, designation, dharma, diathesis, disposition, ethos, feather, fiber, form, frame, genius, genre, genus, grain, habit, hue, humor, humors, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make, makeup, manner, mark, mold, nature, number, persuasion, phylum, physique, property, quality, race, shape, somatotype, sort, species, spirit, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, style, suchness, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, the like of, the likes of, tone, tribe, type, variety, vein, way

• ill, abomination, affection, ailing, ailment, amiss, apocalyptic, atrocity, bad, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, befoulment, below par, black, blight, bodeful, boding, complaint, condition, corruption, criminal, critically ill, crying evil, damage, damaging, dark, defilement, deleterious, despoliation, destruction, detriment, detrimental, dire, disadvantageously, disagreeable, disagreeably, discourteous, disease, disorder, disrespectful, doomful, down, dreary, evil, evil-starred, evilly, faint, faintish, fateful, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, foreboding, gloomy, grievance, harm, havoc, hurt, hurtful, ill-boding, ill-bred, ill-fated, ill-mannered, ill-omened, ill-starred, impertinent, impolite, improper, in danger, inaccurate, inauspicious, incline, inconveniently, indisposed, inexpedient, infection, inferior, infirmity, inhospitable, inhospitably, inimical, injurious, injury, invalid, laid low, lowering, malady, malevolent, menacing, mischief, mortally ill, not quite right, of evil portent, off-color, ominous, out of sorts, outrage, peccant, poison, pollution, portending, portentous, rocky, rude, seedy, sick, sick unto death, sickish, sickness, sinful, sinister, somber, syndrome, taken ill, the worst, threatening, toxin, unadvantageously, unaffectionate, unaffectionately, unamiable, unamiably, unbenign, unbenignant, unbenignantly, unbenignly, uncompassionate, uncompassionately, uncompassioned, uncordial, uncordially, under the weather, unfavorable, unfortunate, unfriendly, ungenial, ungenially, ungracious, ungraciously, unhandily, unhealthy, unkind, unkindly, unloving, unlovingly, unlucky, unpleasant, unprofitably, unpromising, unpropitious, unrewardingly, unskillful, unsympathetic, unsympathetically, unsympathizing, untoward, unwell, uselessly, venom, vexation, vicious, wicked, with difficulty, woe, wrong, wrongly

• ill-advised, a bit previous, advanced, automatic, bad, botched, brash, bungled, butchered, casual, far ahead, forward, fumbled, futile, gut, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, hotheaded, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-gauged, ill-judged, ill-managed, ill-seasoned, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, imprudent, impulsive, inadvertent, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incautious, incongruous, inconsiderate, inconvenient, indeliberate, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, injudicious, inopportune, insensate, intempestive, intrusive, involuntary, irrational, irrelevant, late, madcap, mal a propos, malapropos, mindless, misadvised, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, mistimed, muffed, murdered, myopic, negligent, not firm, off base, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of time, overhasty, oversoon, precipitate, precocious, premature, previous, rash, reasonless, reckless, reflex, reflexive, rushed, senseless, shortsighted, snap, spoiled, spontaneous, thoughtless, too early, too late, too soon, unadvised, unbefitting, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, uncrystallized, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, undesirable, undiscerning, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforeseeing, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unintended, unintentional, unjelled, unlucky, unmatured, unmeditated, unmeet, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprofitable, unpropitious, unready, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unripe, unseasonable, unseeing, unseemly, unsensible, unsound, unstudied, unsuitable, unthinking, unthoughtful, untimely, untoward, unwilled, unwise, witless, wrong

• ill-at-ease, abashed, afflicted, agitated, beset, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, confused, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, hung up, mortified, out of countenance, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset

• ill-bred, Gothic, Neanderthal, animal, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, caddish, coarse, crude, impolite, inconsiderate, insensitive, loutish, louty, nasty, noncivilized, offensive, outlandish, primitive, rough-and-ready, savage, tactless, troglodytic, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unsolicitous, untamed, vulgar, wild

• ill-considered, a bit previous, advanced, automatic, bad, botched, bungled, butchered, casual, far ahead, forward, fumbled, futile, gut, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, ill-advised, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-gauged, ill-judged, ill-managed, ill-seasoned, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, imprudent, impulsive, inadvertent, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incongruous, inconsiderate, inconvenient, indeliberate, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, injudicious, inopportune, insensate, intempestive, intrusive, involuntary, irrational, irrelevant, late, mal a propos, malapropos, mindless, misadvised, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, mistimed, muffed, murdered, myopic, negligent, not firm, off base, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of time, overhasty, oversoon, precipitate, precocious, premature, previous, reasonless, reckless, reflex, reflexive, rushed, senseless, shortsighted, snap, spoiled, spontaneous, thoughtless, too early, too late, too soon, unadvised, unbefitting, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, uncrystallized, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, undesirable, undiscerning, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforeseeing, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unintended, unintentional, unjelled, unlucky, unmatured, unmeditated, unmeet, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprofitable, unpropitious, unready, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unripe, unseasonable, unseeing, unseemly, unsensible, unsound, unstudied, unsuitable, unthinking, unthoughtful, untimely, untoward, unwilled, unwise, witless, wrong

• ill-equipped, bare-handed, beggarly, disqualified, empty-handed, famished, half-starved, ill off, ill-fitted, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, incapable, incompetent, on short commons, pauperized, poor, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, unadapted, unarmed, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unequipped, unfed, unfit, unfitted, unprovided, unqualified, unreplenished, unsuited, unsupplied

• ill-fated, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, dark, dire, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, lowering, menacing, of evil portent, ominous, portending, portentous, sinister, somber, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward

• ill-favored, evil-eyed, evil-faced, evil-fashioned, evil-favored, evil-gotten, evil-looking, evil-minded, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard-visaged, ill-affected, ill-conceived, ill-fashioned, ill-featured, ill-gotten, ill-looking, ill-shaped, unprepossessing

• ill-gotten, amoral, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtful, dubious, evasive, evil-eyed, evil-faced, evil-fashioned, evil-favored, evil-gotten, evil-looking, evil-minded, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, ill-affected, ill-conceived, ill-fashioned, ill-favored, ill-got, ill-looking, ill-shaped, immoral, indirect, insidious, not kosher, questionable, rotten, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, suspicious, tricky, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, without remorse, without shame

• ill-health, cachexia, cachexy, chronic ill health, debilitation, debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicate health, enervation, exhaustion, feebleness, fragility, frailty, healthlessness, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, infirmity, invalidism, invalidity, languishing, languishment, morbidity, morbidness, peakedness, poor health, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, valetudinarianism, wasting, weakliness

• ill-humor, Faustianism, argumentativeness, cold comfort, combativeness, contentiousness, disappointment, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disgruntlement, disputatiousness, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, divine discontent, envy, litigiousness, peevishness, petulance, quarrelsomeness, querulousness, rebelliousness, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, sourness, sulkiness, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit

• ill-humored, argumental, argumentative, bad-tempered, combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious, eristic, evil-tempered, ill-affected, ill-disposed, ill-natured, ill-tempered, litigious, logomachic, pilpulistic, polemic, pro and con, quarrelsome

• ill-nature, anger, asperity, bad blood, bad humor, bad temper, bad will, bile, biliousness, blighting glance, causticity, choler, corrosiveness, discontent, evil disposition, evil eye, gall, ill humor, ill temper, ill will, ill-disposedness, malevolence, malocchio, sourness, spleen, whammy

• ill-natured, bad-tempered, bitter, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dour, evil-disposed, evil-tempered, gloomy, ill-affected, ill-conditioned, ill-disposed, ill-humored, ill-intentioned, ill-tempered, malevolent, morose, petulant, sour, sulky

• ill-off, badly off, bare-handed, beggarly, depressed, dire, distressed, donsie, doomful, down to bedrock, embarrassed, empty-handed, evil-starred, famished, fatal, feeling the pinch, fortuneless, funest, half-starved, hapless, hard up, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-starred, impecunious, impoverished, in Queer Street, in adverse circumstances, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, inauspicious, land-poor, luckless, narrow, ominous, on short commons, on the edge, out of luck, out of pocket, pauperized, pinched, planet-struck, poor, poorly off, reduced, sad, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of luck, short of money, shorthanded, squeezed, star-crossed, starved, starveling, starving, straitened, strapped, unblessed, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, underprivileged, unfed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unmoneyed, unprosperous, unprovided, unprovidential, unreplenished, unsupplied

• ill-repute, bad character, bad name, bad odor, bad report, bad reputation, bad repute, disapprobation, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, evil repute, ill fame, ill-favor, poor reputation, public dishonor, shady reputation, unsavory reputation

• ill-starred, baleful, bodeful, fateful, foreboding, hapless, ill-fated, luckless, malefic, malign, ominous, portentous, sinister, star-crossed, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward

• ill-suited, bad, futile, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undesirable, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, unhappy, unmeet, unprofitable, unqualified, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, unwise, wrong

• ill-tempered, bad-tempered, crabbed, dyspeptic, fractious, hot-tempered, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, irritable, peevish, petulant, querulous, rusty, shrewish, snappish, sour, surly, vixenish, waspish

• ill-timed, bad, futile, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-seasoned, ill-sorted, ill-suited, impolitic, improper, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incongruous, inconvenient, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, late, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, mistimed, off base, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, premature, too late, too soon, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undesirable, unfavorable, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unmeet, unprofitable, unpropitious, unqualified, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, untoward, unwise, wrong

• ill-use, abuse, active use, appliance, application, atrocity, batter, bleed, bleed white, bruise, buffet, consumption, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, drain, employ, employment, exercise, exertion, exploit, good use, hard usage, hard use, ill use, ill-treat, ill-treatment, ill-usage, impose upon, injure, injury, knock about, make use of, maltreat, maltreatment, manhandle, manipulate, maul, milk, mishandle, mistreat, mistreatment, misuse, molest, molestation, outrage, play on, presume upon, rough, rough up, rough usage, savage, stroke, suck dry, take advantage of, usage, use, use ill, using up, violation, violence, work on, work upon, wrong use

• ill-will, acrimony, animosity, animus, bad blood, bad temper, bad will, bitter feeling, bitterness, blighting glance, despite, evil disposition, evil eye, feud, grudge, hard feelings, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, ill nature, ill-disposedness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, malocchio, rancor, soreness, sourness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, vendetta, venom, virulence, vitriol, whammy

• ill-wind, Jonah, bad fortune, bad influence, bad luck, black squall, blizzard, blow, curse, enchantment, equinoctial, evil dispensation, evil eye, evil fortune, evil genius, evil star, frowns of fortune, gale, half a gale, hard lines, hard luck, heavy blow, hex, hoodoo, hurricane, ill fortune, ill luck, jinx, line squall, line storm, malevolent influence, malocchio, raw deal, rotten break, rotten luck, spell, squall, squall line, storm, storm wind, stormy winds, strong wind, tempest, tempestuous wind, thick squall, thundersquall, tropical cyclone, typhoon, ugly wind, violent blow, voodoo, whammy, white squall, whole gale, williwaw, wind-shift line, windstorm

• illegal, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, banned, barred, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, hardly the thing, hot, ignominious, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inequitable, infamous, iniquitous, interdicted, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible, not done, not permitted, not the thing, off limits, off-base, off-color, out of bounds, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed, punishable, ruled out, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, taboo, tabooed, terrible, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unbalanced, unconstitutional, under the ban, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unlawful, unlicensed, unmeet, unmerited, unofficial, unpermissible, unrighteous, unrightful, unsanctioned, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wicked, wrong, wrongful

• illegality, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, crime, criminality, delict, delinquency, deviance, deviancy, felony, improperness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, inequitableness, inequity, infraction, iniquitousness, iniquity, injustice, misdemeanor, offense, sinfulness, tort, undueness, unfitness, unfittingness, unjustness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unrighteousness, unseemliness, unsuitability, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness

• illegitimate, actionable, affected, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bantling, bar sinister, baseborn, bastard, bastard child, bastardy, black-market, bogus, bootleg, brummagem, by-blow, chargeable, colorable, colored, contraband, contrary to law, counterfeit, counterfeited, criminal, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fatherless, feigned, felonious, fictitious, fictive, flawed, garbled, illegal, illegitimacy, illegitimate child, illicit, imitation, impermissible, improper, incorrect, invalid, irregular, junky, justiciable, lawless, love child, make-believe, man-made, misbegotten, miscreated, mock, natural, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, outlaw, outlawed, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, punishable, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, triable, twisted, unallowed, unauthentic, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, ungenuine, unlawful, unnatural, unofficial, unreal, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, warped, wrongful

• illiberal, authoritarian, avaricious, biased, bigot, bigoted, borne, chauvinist, cheap, close, closed, closefisted, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, doctrinaire, dogmatist, fanatic, fanatical, grudging, hardfisted, hidebound, insular, intolerant, jaundiced, jingo, little, little-minded, male chauvinist, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, niggardly, one-sided, opinionated, paltry, parochial, partial, partisan, penny-pinching, petty, pig, pinchfisted, pinching, prejudiced, provincial, purblind, racist, rigid, rigorous, save-all, sexist, shortsighted, small, small-minded, stingy, straitlaced, stringent, stuffy, superpatriot, tight, tightfisted, ultranationalist, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, ungenerous, unliberal

• illicit business, anarchy, anomie, ballot-box stuffing, bunco, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, cozenage, criminalism, criminality, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dodge, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, illegality, illicitness, impermissibility, imposition, imposture, lawlessness, legal flaw, outlawry, racket, scam, swindle, technical flaw, unlawfulness, wrongfulness

• illicit, actionable, adulterous, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, back-door, banned, barred, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, clandestine, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, extramarital, felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, freeloving, furtive, illegal, illegitimate, impermissible, improper, incestuous, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible, not permitted, off limits, out of bounds, outlaw, outlawed, prohibited, punishable, ruled out, secret, sneaky, taboo, tabooed, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under the ban, under-the-counter, under-the-table, underhanded, unlawful, unlicensed, unofficial, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unstatutory, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wrong, wrongful

• illiterate, Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, benighted, bookless, dabbler, deceived, dilettante, dunce, empty-headed, fool, functionally illiterate, grammarless, greenhorn, greeny, heathen, hoodwinked, ignoramus, ignorant, ill-educated, illiterati, know-nothing, led astray, lowbrow, middlebrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, no scholar, nonintellectual, pagan, puddinghead, rude, tenderfoot, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unenlightened, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligentsia, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored

• illness, abnormality, acute disease, addiction, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, bug, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, malady, malaise, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, plant disease, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease

• illogical, aberrant, abroad, absonant, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark, contradictory, contrary to reason, corrupt, deceptive, defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, distorted, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, heretical, heterodox, illusory, inauthentic, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, invalid, irrational, loose, nonscientific, not following, not right, not true, off, off the track, out, paralogical, peccant, perverse, perverted, reasonless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, straying, unauthentic, unconnected, unfactual, unorthodox, unphilosophical, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, untrue, wide, without reason, wrong

• illuminant, aglow, beaming, beamy, benzine, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, candle, coal oil, electric light bulb, electricity, fire, flame, flushing, gas, gasoline, gleaming, gleamy, glim, glinting, glowing, illuminating, illuminating gas, illuminative, illuminator, illumining, incandescent, incandescent body, irradiative, kerosene, lamp, lamping, lantern, light, light as day, light bulb, light source, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminary, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, match, moon, oil, orient, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, radiant, rutilant, rutilous, shining, shiny, source of light, starbright, starlike, starry, stars, streaming, suffused, sun, sunny, sunshiny, taper, torch

• illuminate, account for, adorn, affect, allegorize, apply paint, beacon, bead, bedaub, bedizen, begild, bejewel, beribbon, besmear, bespangle, betoken, better, brandish, breathe, brighten, brighten up, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, brush on paint, calcimine, clarify, clear, clear up, coat, color, complexion, construe, cover, crack, dab, dangle, daub, decipher, decorate, deep-dye, define, demonstrate, demythologize, develop, diamond, dip, disclose, display, distemper, divulge, double-dye, dramatize, dye, edify, elucidate, embellish, emblazon, embody, enact, enamel, engild, engrave, enlighten, ennoble, euhemerize, evidence, evince, exalt, exemplify, exhibit, explain, explain away, explicate, expose to view, exposit, expound, express, face, fast-dye, feather, figure, filigree, finish, fire, flag, flaunt, flood with light, floodlight, flounce, flourish, flower, fresco, garland, gem, gild, give reason for, give sign, give the meaning, give token, glaze, gloss, grain, highlight, hue, ignite, illume, illumine, illustrate, imbue, improve, incarnate, indicate, ingrain, interpret, irradiate, japan, jewel, kindle, lacquer, lay on color, light, light up, lighten, luminate, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mature, mean, ornament, overshine, paint, parade, parget, perfect, perform, pigment, plume, polish, popularize, present, prime, produce, rationalize, refine, relume, relumine, represent, reveal, ribbon, roll out, set forth, shade, shadow, shed light upon, shellac, shine upon, show, show forth, show how, show the way, simplify, slop on paint, smear, solve, spangle, spell out, spotlight, stain, stipple, throw light upon, tinct, tincture, tinge, tinsel, tint, token, tone, trot out, undercoat, unfold, unlock, unravel, uplift, varnish, wash, wave, whitewash, wreathe

• illuminated, ablaze, afflicted, aglow, alight, bathed with light, bent, bespangled, boiled, bombed, boozy, brightened, candlelit, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, elevated, enlightened, firelit, fried, fuddled, gaslit, half-seas over, high, in a blaze, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, luminous, lushy, moonlit, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, polluted, potted, raddled, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, spangled, squiffy, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, stewed, stinko, studded, sunlit, swacked, tanked, tight, tinseled

• illuminating, allegorizing, annotative, autodidactic, brightening, clarifying, coeducational, critical, cultural, demonstrative, demythologizing, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, editorial, educating, educational, educative, elucidative, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, exhortatory, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, glossarial, homiletic, hortatory, illuminant, illuminative, illumining, illustrative, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, lightening, lighting, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, rationalistic, rationalizing, scholiastic, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary

• illumination, abstract, abstraction, accomplishments, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, acrylic painting, adjunct, adornment, allegorization, altarpiece, arc lighting, arrangement, attainments, awareness, black and white, block print, brightness, catechization, chiaroscuro, clarification, coaching, collage, color, color patterns, color print, color printing, coloration, coloring, contrast, copy, cracking, cyclorama, daub, decipherment, decoding, decor, decoration, decorative lighting, demonstration, demythologization, didactics, diptych, direct lighting, direction, dyeing, edification, editing, education, elaboration, electric lighting, elucidation, emanation, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, emendation, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, engraving, enlightenment, euhemerism, exegesis, exemplification, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, festoon lighting, finger painting, floodlighting, flourish, flower arrangement, flower painting, fluorescence, fluorescent lighting, fresco, fresco painting, furniture arrangement, garnish, garnishment, garniture, gaslighting, genre painting, glow lighting, gouache, grisaille, guidance, highlight, highlights, icon, illustration, image, impasto, incandescence, incandescent lighting, indirect lighting, information, insight, instruction, irradiance, irradiancy, irradiation, learning, liberal education, light, light and shade, light source, lighting, likeness, lithography, luminosity, luminous energy, miniature, monochrome, montage, mosaic, mural, mural painting, oil painting, ornament, ornamentation, overhead lighting, painting, panorama, pedagogics, pedagogy, phosphorescence, photograph, photosensitivity, picture, picturization, pigmentation, portraiture, poster painting, print, private teaching, programmed instruction, radiance, radiancy, radiant energy, radiation, rationale, reason, reeducation, representation, reproduction, revelation, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, sidelight, simplification, solution, sophistication, spoon-feeding, spot lighting, stage lighting, stained glass window, staining, stencil, still life, store of knowledge, strip lighting, tableau, tapestry, teaching, the brush, tinction, tinging, tinting, tonality, trim, trimming, triptych, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, understanding, unlocking, visible radiation, wall painting, wash, wash drawing, window dressing

• illusion, aberrancy, aberration, air, airy nothing, apparition, appearance, bamboozlement, bedevilment, befooling, bewitchery, bewitchment, bluffing, brainchild, bubble, calculated deception, captivation, chimera, circumvention, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defectiveness, defrauding, delirium, delusion, delusiveness, deviancy, distortion, dream, dupery, eidolon, enchantment, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrancement, entrapment, errancy, erroneousness, error, ether, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fascination, fault, faultiness, fiction, figment, flaw, flawedness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, hallucination, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, hoodwinking, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, kidding, maggot, make-believe, maya, mirage, misapplication, misapprehension, misconception, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mist, mistake, myth, obsession, outwitting, overreaching, peccancy, perversion, phantasm, phantasmagoria, phantom, pipe, pipe dream, possession, putting on, rainbow, romance, seeming, self-contradiction, self-deception, semblance, shadow, sick fancy, sin, sinfulness, smoke, snow job, song and dance, spirit, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, thick-coming fancies, thin air, trickiness, tricking, trip, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vapor, victimization, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, willful misconception, wishful thinking, witchery, wrong, wrongness

• illusionist, Merlin, Prospero, airiness, appearance, conjurer, delusiveness, escamoteur, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, idealization, illusionism, illusiveness, immateriality, juggler, mage, magian, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, magus, prestidigitation, prestidigitator, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand performer, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, tricker, trickster, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality

• illusive, Barmecidal, Barmecide, Circean, airy, apparent, apparently sound, apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewitching, casuistic, catchy, charming, chimeric, colorable, deceiving, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disingenuous, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, empty, enchanting, entrancing, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fascinating, fishy, glamorous, hallucinatory, hollow, illusional, illusionary, illusory, imaginary, insincere, jesuitic, misleading, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, philosophistic, plausible, questionable, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spectral, spellbinding, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, witching

• illusory, Barmecidal, Barmecide, Circean, aberrant, abroad, adrift, air-built, airy, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, apparent, apparitional, askew, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, beguiling, beside the mark, bewitching, catchy, charming, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-built, corrupt, deceiving, deceptive, defective, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, deviant, deviational, deviative, distorted, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, enchanting, entrancing, errant, erring, erroneous, ethereal, fallacious, false, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fatuitous, fatuous, faultful, faulty, fictional, fictive, fishy, flawed, gaseous, glamorous, gossamery, hallucinatory, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, imaginary, imaginational, imagined, immaterial, merely nominal, misleading, mistaken, nonexistent, not real, not right, not true, notional, off, off the track, ostensible, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phantomlike, questionable, rarefied, seeming, self-contradictory, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral, spellbinding, spirituous, straying, subtile, subtle, supposititious, tenuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfactual, unfounded, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, untrue, vaporous, visional, visionary, wide, windy, witching, wrong

• illustrate, account for, adorn, adumbrate, allegorize, approve, argue, attest, bespeak, betoken, body forth, breathe, call to mind, cite, cite a particular, clarify, clear up, connote, crack, decipher, decorate, demonstrate, demythologize, denote, display, document, elucidate, embellish, emblazon, embody, enlighten, euhemerize, evidence, evince, example, exemplify, exhibit, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, express, figure, foreshadow, furnish evidence, give a for-instance, give indication of, give reason for, give the meaning, go to show, illuminate, image, impersonate, imply, incarnate, indicate, instance, involve, itemize, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, mirror, name, ornament, particularize, personate, personify, picture, point to, popularize, prefigure, pretypify, project, quote, rationalize, realize, reflect, set forth, shadow, shadow forth, shed light upon, show, show how, show signs of, show the way, signalize, signify, simplify, solve, speak for itself, speak volumes, spell out, suggest, symptomatize, tell, tend to show, throw light upon, unfold, unlock, unravel

• illustration, abstract, abstraction, acrylic painting, allegorization, alphabet, altarpiece, art, block print, blueprint, case, case history, case in point, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, citation, clarification, collage, color print, coloring, conventional representation, copy, cracking, cross reference, cyclorama, dance notation, daub, decipherment, decoding, delineation, demonstration, demythologization, depiction, depictment, diagram, diptych, drama, drawing, editing, elucidation, emblem, emendation, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, engraving, enlightenment, euhemerism, example, exegesis, exemplar, exemplification, explanation, explication, exponent, exposition, expounding, figuration, figure, finger painting, flower painting, for instance, fresco, fresco painting, genre painting, gouache, grisaille, hieroglyphic, icon, iconography, ideogram, illumination, image, imagery, imaging, impasto, instance, item, letter, light, likeness, limning, logogram, logograph, map, miniature, monochrome, montage, mosaic, mural, mural painting, musical notation, notation, object lesson, oil painting, painting, panorama, particular, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, poster painting, prefigurement, presentment, print, printing, problem, projection, quotation, rationale, realization, reason, reference, relevant instance, rendering, rendition, representation, representative, reproduction, sample, sampling, schema, score, script, simplification, solution, specimen, stained glass window, stencil, still life, syllabary, symbol, tablature, tableau, tapestry, the brush, triptych, type, typical example, unlocking, wall painting, wash, wash drawing, writing

• illustrative, allegorizing, annotative, apish, clarifying, critical, delineatory, demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive, echoic, editorial, elucidative, embodying, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, figurative, glossarial, graphic, ideographic, illuminating, illuminative, illustrational, imitative, incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, rationalistic, rationalizing, representational, representative, representing, scholiastic, simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid

• illustrious, acclaimed, bright, brilliant, celebrated, charismatic, conspicuous, distinguished, eminent, esteemed, famed, famous, glamorous, glorious, great, honored, important, lofty, lustrous, magic, notable, noted, numinous, outstanding, prominent, radiant, renowned, respected, resplendent, shining, signal, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, striking, sublime, venerable, well-known

• image, Doppelganger, Vorstellung, abstract, abstraction, adumbrate, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, allusion, ally, altarpiece, alter ego, analogon, analogue, angle, apparition, appearance, apprehension, archetypal pattern, archetype, artificiality, asiaticism, aspect, associate, badge, banner, black spot, block print, bloom, blooping, body forth, brother, call to mind, call up, cameo, cast, catalog, cataloging, certified copy, character, character sketch, characteristic, characterization, clone, close copy, close match, cognate, collage, color print, companion, complement, conceit, conceive, concept, conception, conceptualization, configuration, congenator, congener, conjure up, contemplate, coordinate, copy, corporealization, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterfeit, counterpart, cyclorama, daub, dead ringer, definition, delineate, delineation, demonstrate, depict, depiction, describe, description, details, device, differentia, diptych, double, duplicate, earmark, ectype, effect, effigy, eidetic image, eidolon, embodiment, embody, engram, engraving, envisage, envisaging, envision, envisioning, epitome, equal, equivalent, essence, euphuism, evocation, exact likeness, exemplify, facade, facet, facsimile, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, false front, false image, false show, fancy, fantasy, fashion, father image, feature, feigned belief, fellow, fetish, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, flare, floridity, flourish, flower, flowery style, foreshadow, forgery, form, fresco, fringe area, front, gestalt, ghost, glass, granulation, graphic account, graven image, grid, guise, hallmark, hard shadow, hypocrisy, icon, idea, idiosyncrasy, idol, idolum, ikon, illumination, illustrate, illustration, imagery, imagery study, imagine, imaging, imagism, imagistic poetry, imago, imitation, impersonate, impression, incarnate, incarnation, index, indicant, indicator, insignia, insincerity, intellectual object, interpret, itemization, just see, keynote, kindred spirit, lifelike image, light, like, likeness, limn, limning, lineaments, living image, living picture, look, look upon, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mark, match, mate, materialization, measure, memory, memory trace, memory-trace, mental image, mental impression, mental picture, mental representation, mere show, metaphor, miniature, mirage, mirror, mirroring, model, montage, mosaic, mould, multiple image, mural, near duplicate, noise, nonliterality, nonliteralness, note, notion, objectification, objectify, observation, obverse, opinion, ornament, panorama, parallel, particularization, pasticcio, pastiche, peculiarity, pendant, perception, personate, personification, personify, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, phase, phasis, phasm, phenomenon, phony, photograph, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, picturing, poetic imagery, portrait, portraiture, portray, portrayal, prefigure, presence, pretense, pretension, pretypify, print, profile, project, property, prunes and prisms, public image, purple passage, put-on, putting on airs, rain, realize, recept, reciprocal, reference, reflect, reflection, regard, reification, render, rendering, rendition, replica, represent, representation, representative, reproduction, resemblance, respect, ringer, rolling, rubbing, scanning pattern, scintillation, sculpture, seal, second self, see, seeming, semblance, sentiment, shade, shading, shadow, shadow forth, sham, shape, show, side, sigil, sign, signal, signature, simile, similitude, simulacrum, sister, sketch, slant, snow, snowstorm, soul mate, speaking, specification, specter, spit, spit and image, spitting image, stained glass window, stamp, statue, stencil, still life, style, stylishness, such, suchlike, summon up, supposition, sure sign, symbol, symptom, tableau, tally, tapestry, telltale sign, the like of, the likes of, theory, thought, total effect, trace, tracing, trait, traumatic trace, triptych, trope, turn of expression, twin, twist, typical example, unconscious memory, unnaturalness, very image, very picture, view, viewpoint, vignette, vision, visual image, visualization, visualize, vivid description, waking dream, wall painting, way of speaking, wildest dream, wise, word painting, word-painting, wraith

• imagery, Vorstellung, allusion, alphabet, apparition, art, asiaticism, blueprint, brainchild, bubble, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, chimera, choreography, concept, conception, conceptualization, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, delirium, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, device, diagram, drama, drawing, eidetic image, eidolon, envisaging, envisioning, euphuism, evocation, exemplification, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, figuration, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, floridity, flourish, flower, flowery style, graphic account, hallucination, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, idle fancy, illusion, illustration, image, imagery study, imagination, imaging, imagining, imagism, imagistic poetry, impression, insubstantial image, invention, itemization, letter, lifelike image, limning, logogram, logograph, maggot, make-believe, manner of speaking, map, mental image, mental picture, mental representation, musical notation, myth, nonliterality, nonliteralness, notation, objectification, ornament, particularization, phantasm, phantom, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturing, picturization, plan, poetic imagery, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, purple passage, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, romance, schema, score, script, sick fancy, sketch, specification, syllabary, symbol, symbolism, tablature, thick-coming fancies, trip, trope, turn of expression, vapor, vignette, vision, visual image, visualization, vivid description, way of speaking, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, word painting, word-painting, writing

• imaginable, assumable, cogitable, conceivable, conceivably possible, conjecturable, contingent, fanciable, humanly possible, likely, plausible, possible, potential, premissable, presumable, probable, supposable, surmisable, thinkable

• imaginary invalid, alcoholic, alternating personality, antisocial personality, disordered personality, disturbed personality, double personality, drug user, dual personality, emotionally unstable personality, escapist, hostile personality, hypochondriac, hypochondriast, idiot, immature personality, inadequate personality, inferior personality, malade imaginaire, maladjusted personality, mentally defective personality, moral insanity, multiple personality, neuropath, neurotic, neurotic personality, paranoid personality, perverse personality, psychoneurotic, psychopath, psychopathic personality, psychotic, psychotic personality, schizoid, schizoid personality, seclusive personality, sexual psychopath, shut-in personality, sociopath, split personality, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak personality

• imaginary, Barmecidal, Barmecide, abstract, air-built, airy, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, apparent, apparitional, autistic, cardinal, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-built, deceptive, decimal, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, differential, digital, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, ethereal, even, exponential, fallacious, false, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, gaseous, gossamery, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginational, imaginative, imagined, immaterial, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, legendary, logarithmic, logometric, made-up, merely nominal, misleading, mythic, mythical, mythological, negative, nonexistent, not real, notional, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, ordinal, ostensible, pair, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomlike, positive, possible, prime, quixotic, radical, rarefied, rational, real, reciprocal, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral, spirituous, submultiple, subtile, subtle, supposititious, surd, tenuous, transcendental, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, untrue, vaporous, visional, visionary, windy

• imagination, apparition, brainchild, bubble, chimera, creativity, delirium, eidolon, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, hallucination, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imaginativeness, imagining, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, insubstantial image, intelligence, invention, inventiveness, maggot, make-believe, myth, phantasm, phantom, romance, sick fancy, thick-coming fancies, thinking, thought, trip, vapor, vision, visualization, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, wit

• imaginative, authentic, avant-garde, clever, conceptive, conceptual, contrived, creative, enterprising, esemplastic, expressive, fanciful, fantastic, fecund, fertile, fictional, fictitious, firsthand, fresh, germinal, graphic, ideational, ideative, ingenious, innovative, inspired, inspiring, inventive, meaningful, new, notional, novel, original, originative, poetical, pregnant, productive, prolific, resourceful, revolutionary, seminal, shaping, suggestive, teeming, underived, unique, visionary, visioned, vivid, whimsical

• imagine, account as, assume, be afraid, believe, coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, conclude, concoct, conjecture, consider, contemplate, cook up, create, daresay, deduce, deem, devise, divine, dream, dream up, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, expect, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, feature, feel, fictionalize, gather, grant, guess, hatch, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, ideate, image, infer, invent, judge, let, let be, look upon, look upon as, maintain, mold, opine, originate, picture, ponder, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, produce, provisionally accept, realize, reckon, regard, repute, say, see, set down as, shape, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, think of, think up, trow, understand, view, view as, vision, visualize, ween

• imbalance, anamorphism, anamorphosis, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, contrariety, crookedness, detorsion, deviation, difference, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, distortion, gnarl, heterogeneity, inadequacy, inequality, inequity, injustice, insufficiency, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance, quirk, screw, shortcoming, torsion, tortuosity, turn, twist, unbalance, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unsymmetry, warp, wrench, wrest, wring

• imbecile, ament, amputee, anemic, apish, arrested, asinine, ass, asthenic, babbling, backward, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blithering, bloodless, born fool, brainless, buffoonish, burbling, chicken, clot, cockeyed, congenital idiot, cowardly, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, credulous, cretin, cretinistic, cretinous, cripple, daffy, daft, dazed, debilitated, defective, deformity, dim-witted, dithering, dizzy, donkey, doting, driveling, drooling, drooping, droopy, dull, dumb, effete, etiolated, faint, faintish, fatuitous, fatuous, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, flaky, floppy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, golem, gone, goofy, gulled, gutless, half-baked, half-wit, half-witted, handicapped person, idiot, idiotic, imbecilic, impotent, inane, incapable, inept, infatuated, insane, jackass, jerk, juggins, kooky, languid, languorous, limber, limp, listless, loony, lustless, mad, marrowless, maudlin, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, mongoloid idiot, moron, moronic, natural, natural idiot, natural-born fool, nerveless, nincompoop, ninny, not all there, nutty, paralytic, paraplegic, pithless, pooped, powerless, quadriplegic, retarded, rubbery, sapless, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simp, simple, simpleminded, simpleton, simpletonian, sinewless, slack, slobbering, slow, slow-witted, soft, spineless, strengthless, stupid, subnormal, the crippled, the handicapped, thoughtless, tomfool, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, wacky, weak, weakly, wet, witless, zany

• imbecility, amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cretinism, daffiness, desipience, disability, disablement, disqualification, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, giddiness, goofiness, half-wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, inability, inadequacy, inanity, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, inefficiency, ineptitude, infancy, infantilism, inferiority, insanity, insufficiency, legal incapacity, lunacy, madness, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mindlessness, minority, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, profound idiocy, queerness, retardation, retardment, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, stupidity, subnormality, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unfitness, wackiness, wardship, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism

• imbed, bed, bed in, comprise, confirm, contain, deep-dye, define, embed, enclose, enfold, engraft, engrave, entrench, establish, etch, fix, found, ground, impact, implant, impress, imprint, include, infix, ingrain, inlay, inscribe, inset, internalize, jam, keep within, lodge, pack, plant, print, put in, root, seat, set, set in, settle, stamp, stereotype, surround, wedge

• imbibe, absorb, adsorb, assimilate, bib, blot, blot up, booze, chemisorb, chemosorb, devour, digest, drain the cup, dram, drink, drink bottoms-up, drink deep, drink hard, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, eat, engorge, engross, engulf, filter in, follow strong drink, gargle, gobble, grog, gulp, gulp down, guzzle, incorporate, infiltrate, ingest, ingurgitate, knock back, lap, lap up, liquor up, nip, osmose, percolate in, pledge, pull, quaff, seep in, sip, slurp up, soak, soak in, soak up, sorb, sponge, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, swallow, swig, swill, swill down, swill up, take in, take up, tank up, tipple, toast, tope, toss, toss down, toss off, wash down, wolf down

• imbroglio, altercation, argument, bicker, bickering, bind, blood feud, brawl, broil, clutch, complication, contention, controversy, crunch, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embarrassing position, embarrassment, embroilment, falling-out, feud, fight, fine how-do-you-do, fliting, fracas, fuss, hell to pay, hobble, hot water, how-do-you-do, jam, logomachy, mess, miff, mix, morass, open quarrel, parlous straits, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, polemic, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire, quarrel, quicksand, row, scrape, sharp words, slanging match, slough, snarl, spat, spot, squabble, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, strife, swamp, tiff, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, tussle, unholy mess, vendetta, words, wrangle

• imbrue, bathe, besprinkle, breathe, brew, color, decoct, douche, dredge, drench, drouk, dye, entincture, flavor, flush, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, inject, instill, lave, leach, leaven, lixiviate, macerate, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, rinse, saturate, season, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, steep, suffuse, temper, tincture, tinge, transfuse, wash, waterlog

• imbue, animate, apply paint, bathe, beat into, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, bespread, besprinkle, brainwash, breathe, brew, brush on paint, calcimine, catechize, coat, color, complexion, condition, cover, crawl with, creep with, dab, daub, decoct, deep-dye, diffuse, dip, distemper, double-dye, douche, dredge, drench, drouk, dye, emblazon, embue, enamel, engild, enliven, entincture, exhilarate, extend throughout, face, fast-dye, fill, fire, flavor, flush, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, honeycomb, hue, illuminate, imbrue, implant, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infect, infiltrate, infix, inform, infuse, ingrain, inject, inoculate, inspire, inspirit, instill, invest, japan, lacquer, lave, lay on color, leach, leave no void, leaven, lixiviate, macerate, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, paint, parget, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, pigment, prime, program, rinse, run through, saturate, season, seethe, shade, shadow, shellac, slop on paint, smear, soak, sodden, sop, souse, spirit, spirit up, stain, steep, stipple, suffuse, swarm with, teem with, temper, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, transfuse, undercoat, varnish, wash, waterlog, whitewash

• imbued, affected, agonized, colored, deep, deep-colored, devoured by, dyed, full, full-colored, hued, imbued with, impressed, impressed with, in Technicolor, in color, moved, obsessed, obsessed by, penetrated with, racked, seized with, stained, stricken, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted, toned, torn, tortured, touched, wash-colored, wracked

• imitate, act like, adopt, affect, ape, appear like, approach, appropriate, approximate, assume, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, borrow, bring to mind, burlesque, call to mind, call up, caricature, chorus, come again, come close, come near, compare with, copy, correspond, counterfeit, crib, derive from, ditto, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, double, duplicate, echo, emulate, evoke, fake, favor, follow, forge, go like, hoke, hoke up, impersonate, infringe, look like, make like, make use of, match, mimic, mirror, mock, monkey, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, parallel, parody, parrot, partake of, pirate, plagiarize, quote, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reflect, regurgitate, reincarnate, remind one of, renew, repeat, replicate, reproduce, resemble, revive, satirize, savor of, say again, seem like, send up, simulate, smack of, sound like, spoof, stack up with, steal, suggest, take, take after, take off, take on, take over, travesty

• imitated, alike, aped, consimilar, copied, counterfeit, ersatz, fake, favoring, following, homogeneous, identical, imitation, like, mimicked, mock, nearly reproduced, not unlike, phony, resembling, similar, simulated, smacking of, something like, suggestive of, synthetic, uniform with

• imitation, accordance, acting, adoption, affected, agent, agreement, alike, alikeness, alliance, alternate, alternative, analogy, aped, aping, apocryphal, approach, appropriation, approximation, artificial, assimilation, assumed, assumption, backup, bastard, bogus, borrowed plumes, brummagem, burlesque, caricature, certified copy, change, changeling, characterization, cheat, clinquant, closeness, colorable, colored, community, comparability, comparison, conduplication, conformity, consimilar, copied, copy, copying, correspondence, counterfeit, counterfeited, counterpart, deputy, derivation, deriving, distorted, double, doubling, dressed up, dumb show, dummy, duplicate, duplication, echo, ectype, embellished, embodiment, embroidered, emulation, enacting, enactment, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, facsimile, factitious, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, faked, fakement, false, falsified, farce, favoring, feigned, fictitious, fictive, fill-in, following, forged, forgery, frame-up, fraud, garbled, gemination, ghost, ghostwriter, hoax, hokey, homogeneous, icon, identical, identity, illegitimate, image, imitated, impersonating, impersonation, impostor, impression, incarnation, infringement, ingemination, iteration, junk, junky, knockoff, lampoon, like, likeness, likening, locum tenens, make-believe, makeshift, man-made, masquerade, metaphor, metonymy, mimesis, mimicked, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mock, mock-up, mockery, mocking, model, nearly reproduced, nearness, next best thing, not unlike, palingenesis, pantomime, pantomiming, parallelism, paraphrase, parity, parody, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, performance, performing, personation, personification, personnel, perverted, phony, picture, pinch, pinch hitter, pinchbeck, pirating, plagiarism, plagiarized, plagiary, playing, portrait, portrayal, posing, pretended, provisional, proxy, pseudo, put-on, put-up job, quasi, queer, quotation, re-creation, re-formation, reappearance, rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution, reconstruction, recurrence, redesign, redoing, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, reedition, reestablishment, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, regurgitation, reincarnation, reinstitution, reissue, reiteration, relief, remaking, renascence, renewal, renovation, reoccurrence, reorganization, repetition, replacement, replica, replication, representation, representative, reprinting, reproduction, resemblance, resembling, reserve, reserves, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resumption, resurrection, return, revision, revival, ringer, rip-off, sameness, satire, second string, secondary, self-styled, semblance, sham, shoddy, sign, similar, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, smacking of, so-called, soi-disant, something like, spare, spares, spurious, squib, stand-in, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, suggestive of, superseder, supplanter, supposititious, surrogate, swindle, symbol, synecdoche, synthetic, take-off, takeoff, taking, temporary, tentative, third string, tin, tinsel, titivated, token, travesty, twinning, twisted, unauthentic, understudy, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural, unreal, utility, utility player, version, vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, warped, whited sepulcher, wicked imitation

• imitative, apish, battological, delineatory, depictive, duplicative, echoic, echoing, embodying, emulative, figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, incarnating, iterative, limning, mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, parrotlike, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitive, representational, representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing, tautological, tautologous, typifying, vivid

• imitator, ape, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, hypocrite, impersonator, impostor, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, parrot, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, sheep, simulator

• Immaculate Conception, Dei Mater, Deipara, Holy Mary, Mariolatry, Mariology, Mother of God, Notre Dame, Our Lady, Queen of Angels, Queen of Heaven, Regina Angelorum, Regina Coeli, Sancta Virgo Virginum, Stella Maris, Theotokos, Virgin Most Glorious, Virgin Most Merciful, Virgin Most Powerful, Virgin Most Renowned, Virgin Most Venerable, Virgin Most Wise, Virgo Clemens, Virgo Gloriosa, Virgo Potens, Virgo Praedicanda, Virgo Sapientissima, Virgo Sponsa Dei, Virgo Veneranda, mater dolorosa, the Blessed Virgin, the Sorrowful Mother, the Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Virgin Mother

• immaculate, Christian, absolute, beyond all praise, blameless, bleached, blotless, bright, chaste, clean, cleanly, creditable, dainty, dapper, decent, defectless, dirt-free, erect, errorless, estimable, ethical, exquisite, fair, fastidious, faultless, flawless, fresh, full of integrity, good, guiltless, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, ideal, impeccable, indefectible, indefective, infallible, innocent, inviolate, irreproachable, just, just right, kosher, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, modest, moral, neat, noble, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, peerless, perfect, principled, pristine, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, ritually pure, sexually innocent, shiny, sinless, smut-free, smutless, snow-white, snowy, spick and span, spotless, spruce, stainless, sterling, sweet, tahar, taintless, tidy, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unfaultable, unimpeachable, unmixed, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, vestal, virginal, virtuous, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, worthy, yeomanly

• immaculately, absolutely, blamelessly, clean, cleanly, completely, conscientiously, decently, entirely, erectly, fastidiously, faultlessly, flawlessly, fully, high-mindedly, honestly, honorably, ideally, impeccably, infallibly, irreproachably, just right, meticulously, morally, nobly, perfectly, punctiliously, purely, reputably, righteously, scrupulously, spotlessly, stainlessly, thoroughly, totally, unimpeachably, unspottedly, uprightly, upstandingly, virtuously, wholly, worthily

• immanence, accessibility, actual presence, availability, being here, being there, essentiality, existence, fundamentality, hereness, immediacy, inbeing, indigenousness, indwelling, indwellingness, inherence, innateness, innerness, internality, intrinsicality, inwardness, nonobjectivity, occurrence, physical presence, presence, spiritual presence, subjectivity, thereness, ubiety, whereness

• immanent, accessible, actual, as is, at hand, attendant, available, being, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, deep-seated, esoteric, existent, existing, extant, fresh, immediate, implanted, implicit, in view, inalienable, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, instant, internal, intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, latest, modern, new, on board, on deck, on hand, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, private, resident, running, secret, subjective, that be, that is, topical, unalienable, unchallengeable, unquestionable, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, within call, within reach, within sight

• immaterial, adrift, aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, astral, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, bodiless, celestial, decarnate, decarnated, dinky, discarnate, disembodied, dispensable, ephemeral, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, extraneous, extrinsic, fanciful, flimsy, foreign, ghostly, heavenly, illusory, imaginary, impalpable, impertinent, imponderable, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorporate, incorporeal, inessential, inferior, insensible, insignificant, insubstantial, intangible, irrelative, irrelevant, light, little, merely nominal, metaphysical, minor, minute, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, not at issue, not real, not vital, nugatory, occult, off the subject, otherworldly, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, petty, phantom, psychic, shadowy, slight, small, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, technical, transmundane, trifling, trivial, unactual, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unessential, unextended, unfleshly, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, unphysical, unreal, unrealistic, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, weightless

• immateriality, Masan, Prospero, airiness, airy nothing, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, banshee, bodilessness, concealment, control, delusiveness, departed spirit, disappearance, disassociation, disconnection, discreteness, disembodied spirit, disjunction, disjuncture, dissociation, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, ethereality, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, fineness, flimsiness, form, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idealization, idolum, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, impalpability, imperceptibility, impertinence, imponderability, inapplicability, inappositeness, inconnection, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeality, incorporeity, independence, indifference, indiscernibility, ineffectuality, inferiority, insignificance, insolidity, insubstantiality, intangibility, invisibility, irrelation, irrelevance, larva, lemures, littleness, low priority, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, manes, marginality, materialization, mistiness, negligibility, nonappearance, oni, pettiness, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, poltergeist, presence, prestidigitation, puniness, rareness, rarity, revenant, secondariness, secrecy, seeming, semblance, separateness, shade, shadow, shape, show, shrouded spirit, simulacrum, sleight of hand, slightness, smallness, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite, subtility, subtilty, subtlety, tenuity, tenuousness, the invisible, the unseen, theophany, thinness, unactuality, unconcreteness, unconnectedness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unnoteworthiness, unperceivability, unreality, unrelatedness, unseeableness, unsolidity, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, vagueness, viewlessness, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith, zombie

• immature, a novice at, a stranger to, adolescent, adulterated, amateur, amateurish, arrested, at half cock, babish, babyish, blemished, budding, callow, childish, childlike, dabbling, damaged, defective, deficient, dewy, dilettante, dilettantish, embryonic, erroneous, ever-new, evergreen, failing, fallible, faulty, firsthand, fledgling, found wanting, fresh, green, green as grass, growing, half-assed, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hypoplastic, ignorant, ill-digested, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impubic, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, inexperienced, infant, infantile, infantine, ingenuous, innocent, intact, jejune, juicy, juvenile, lacking, maiden, maidenly, makeshift, mediocre, minor, missing, mixed, naive, needing, neoteric, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged, not perfect, off, original, part, partial, patchy, precocious, premature, pristine, puerile, raw, ripening, rudimentary, sappy, scant, scanty, sciolistic, scrappy, sempervirent, shallow, short, shy, sketchy, smattering, sophomoric, superficial, tender, unaccustomed to, unacquainted with, unadult, unbeaten, unconversant, unconversant with, underage, underdeveloped, underripe, undeveloped, uneven, unexperienced, unfamiliar with, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, ungrown, unhandled, uninitiated in, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed, unperfected, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled in, unsophisticated, unsound, unthorough, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vernal, virgin, virginal, wanting, young, youthful

• immaturity, adulteration, amateurishness, amateurism, arrestment, babyishness, brand-newness, callowness, childishness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, dewiness, erroneousness, fallibility, faultiness, freshness, gloss of novelty, greenness, ignorance, immatureness, impairment, imperfection, imprudence, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, inadvisability, inattention, incompleteness, incompletion, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexactitude, inexactness, inexpedience, inexperience, infancy, infantilism, injudiciousness, intactness, irrationality, juiciness, juniority, lack, lateness, maidenhood, mediocrity, minority, mint condition, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, nonage, nondevelopment, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, oversimplicity, oversimplification, patchiness, pompousness, presentness, pristineness, puerilism, puerility, rawness, reasonlessness, recency, recentness, recklessness, reductionism, roughness, rudeness, sappiness, scrappiness, senselessness, short measure, short weight, shortage, shortcoming, simplism, sketchiness, strangeness, stuffiness, the rough, thoughtlessness, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, uncommonness, uncultivation, underdevelopment, undevelopment, unevenness, unexperiencedness, unfamiliarity, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, unintelligence, unperfectedness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism, unprofessionalness, unreason, unreasonableness, unrefinement, unripeness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, unthoughtfulness, unusualness, unwisdom, unwiseness, virginity, want, witlessness

• immeasurable, Gargantuan, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, amplitudinous, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, countless, endless, enormous, eternal, exhaustless, extending everywhere, extensive, galactic, gigantic, great, huge, illimitable, illimited, immense, incalculable, incomprehensible, indefinite, inestimable, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminable, interminate, king-size, large, limitless, mammoth, massive, massy, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, no end of, numberless, outsize, overgrown, perpetual, prodigious, shoreless, sizable, spacious, stupendous, sumless, termless, titanic, tremendous, unbounded, uncircumscribed, uncountable, uncounted, unfathomable, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, untold, vast, voluminous, weighty, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number

• immeasurably, a outrance, absolutely, abundantly, acervatim, ad infinitum, all out, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, boundlessly, completely, copiously, countlessly, dead, downright, endlessly, essentially, eternally, extremely, flat out, forever, fundamentally, illimitably, immensely, in crowds, in heaps, in perpetuity, in the extreme, in throngs, incalculably, incomprehensibly, indefinitely, inexhaustibly, infinitely, innumerably, interminably, limitlessly, measurelessly, most, multitudinously, no end, numerously, perfectly, prodigally, profusely, purely, radically, thickly, to infinity, totally, unconditionally, unequivocally, utterly, with a vengeance, without end, without limit

• immediacy, accessibility, actual presence, alacrity, approach, approximation, availability, being here, being there, case of need, closeness, confines, contiguity, contiguousness, convergence, decisiveness, dire necessity, dispatch, environs, exigence, exigency, existence, expedition, expeditiousness, foreground, hereness, immanence, immediate foreground, immediateness, imperative, imperativeness, indwellingness, inherence, instantaneity, instantaneousness, matter of necessity, momentaneousness, momentariness, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, occurrence, physical presence, precinct, predicament, presence, pressingness, pressure, promptitude, promptness, propinquity, proximity, punctuality, punctualness, purlieus, quickness, rapidity, readiness, simultaneity, speediness, spiritual presence, summariness, swiftness, thereness, ubiety, urgency, urgent need, vicinage, vicinity, whereness

• immediate, about to be, abrupt, accessible, actual, adjacent, adjoining, alert, already in sight, approaching, apt, articulated, as is, at hand, attendant, automatic, available, being, bordering, brewing, catenated, ceaseless, close, close at hand, closest, coming, concatenated, connected, connecting, constant, contemporaneous, contemporary, conterminous, contiguous, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, coterminous, current, cursory, cyclical, decisive, direct, end to end, endless, endways, endwise, existent, existing, expeditious, extant, face to face, featureless, festinate, feverish, firsthand, flying, forthcoming, fresh, furious, future, gapless, gathering, going to happen, hair-trigger, hasty, hurried, immanent, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, incessant, indwelling, inherent, instant, instantaneous, instinctive, interminable, irreversible, joined, jointless, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, last-minute, latest, lightning-like, linked, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, modern, momentaneous, momentary, monotonous, near, near at hand, nearby, nearest, nearing, nearmost, neighbor, neighboring, never-ending, new, next, nigh, nighest, nonstop, on board, on deck, on hand, on the horizon, on the spot, one-way, overhanging, passing, perennial, periodic, preparing, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, pressing, presto, primary, prompt, proximate, punctual, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, ready, recurrent, reflex, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, seamless, serried, slap-bang, slapdash, smooth, snap, speedy, spontaneous, stable, steady, straight, straightaway, straightforward, straightway, sudden, summary, superficial, swift, that be, that is, that will be, threatening, to come, topical, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undeviating, undifferentiated, unending, unhesitating, unidirectional, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unswerving, unthinking, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, upcoming, urgent, waiting, within call, within reach, within sight

• immediately, PDQ, amain, anon, apace, at once, away, by forced marches, closely, contiguously, cursorily, decisively, directly, expeditiously, feverishly, forthwith, furiously, hand over fist, hastily, helter-skelter, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, in a jiffy, in a second, in a wink, in no time, in passing, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, intimately, just now, just then, momentaneously, momentarily, momently, now, on the dot, on the instant, on the nail, on the run, on the spot, pell-mell, pretty damned quick, promptly, pronto, quickly, right away, right now, right off, shortly, slapdash, smartly, soon, speedily, straightaway, straightway, subito, summarily, superficially, swiftly, this instant, tout de suite, when, with a rush, with all haste, with all speed, with dispatch, with haste, without delay, without further delay, without hesitation

• immemorial, acknowledged, admitted, age-old, ageless, ancient, antique, auld, ceaseless, coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, conventional, customary, dateless, early, elderly, endless, erstwhile, established, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, fixed, folk, fore, former, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, incessant, indestructible, infinite, interminable, inveterate, late, legendary, long-established, long-standing, mythological, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, of long standing, of old, of the folk, of yore, olamic, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-time, olden, once, onetime, oral, past, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, prehistoric, prescriptive, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, received, recent, recognized, rooted, sempiternal, sometime, steady, then, time-honored, timeless, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, unceasing, understood, unending, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unwritten, venerable, without end, worshipful

• immense, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, countless, divine, elephantine, endless, enormous, epic, eternal, exhaustless, exquisite, extending everywhere, extensive, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gilt-edged, glorious, golden, heavenly, heroic, huge, humongous, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, incalculable, incomprehensible, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminable, interminate, jumbo, king-size, large, limitless, magnificent, mammoth, marvelous, massive, massy, measureless, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, no end of, outsize, overgrown, perpetual, prodigious, profound, sensational, shoreless, sizable, spacious, splendid, splendiferous, staggering, sterling, stupendous, sumless, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, termless, terrific, titanic, towering, tremendous, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unfathomable, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, untold, vast, voluminous, weighty, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number, wonderful

• immensely, ad infinitum, boundlessly, colossally, divinely, endlessly, enormously, eternally, ever, excessively, exquisitely, extremely, forever, gigantically, gloriously, hugely, illimitably, immeasurably, in perpetuity, incalculably, incomprehensibly, infinitely, innumerably, inordinately, interminably, limitlessly, magnificently, marvelously, measurelessly, over, overfull, overly, overmuch, prodigiously, stupendously, superbly, terrifically, titanically, to infinity, too, tremendously, unduly, vastly, without end, without limit, wonderfully

• immensity, all-comprehensiveness, all-inclusiveness, ampleness, amplitude, boundlessness, bulk, countlessness, endlessness, enormity, enormousness, eternity, exhaustlessness, expanse, forever, formidableness, fullness, gigantism, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, hugeness, illimitability, immeasurability, incalculability, incomprehensibility, inexhaustibility, infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, innumerability, intensity, interminability, largeness, limitlessness, magnitude, measurelessness, might, mightiness, monstrosity, monstrousness, muchness, numberlessness, perpetuity, plenitude, power, prodigiousness, strength, stupendousness, termlessness, tremendousness, universality, unmeasurability, vastness, world without end

• immerge, baptize, bury, deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, engulf, immerse, inundate, merge, overwhelm, plunge in water, sink, souse, submerge, submerse, whelm

• immerse, absorb, absorb the attention, arrest, asperge, asperse, baptize, bury, busy, catch, charm, christen, deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, enchant, engage, engage the attention, engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, engulf, enthrall, exercise, fascinate, grab, grip, hold, hold spellbound, hold the interest, hypnotize, immerge, inundate, involve, involve the interest, merge, mesmerize, monopolize, obsess, occupy, occupy the attention, overwhelm, plunge, plunge in water, preoccupy, saturate, sink, soak, souse, spellbind, sprinkle, submerge, submerse, take up, whelm

• immersed, absorbed, absorbed in, awash, bathed, buried, buried in, caught up in, contemplating, contemplative, deep, deluged, devoted, devoted to, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, engulfed, enmeshed in, entangled in, far-gone, flooded, immersed in, implicated in, intent, intent on, inundated, involved, involved in, lost in, macerated, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, obsessed, occupied, oozing, overflowed, permeated, preoccupied, rapt, saturated, seeping, single-minded, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, studious, studying, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submerged in, submersed, sunken, swamped, swept up, taken up with, tied up in, totally absorbed, undersea, underwater, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wrapped, wrapped in, wrapped up, wrapped up in, wringing wet

• immersion, absorbed attention, absorption, affusion, application, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, chrismal, christening, concentration, contemplation, dampening, damping, deep study, deep thought, deluge, dewing, dip, dipping, dousing, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, engagement, engrossment, engulfment, flooding, font, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immergence, infusion, intentness, inundation, involvement, irrigation, laving, meditation, moistening, monomania, obsession, preoccupation, profound thought, rapt attention, rinsing, single-mindedness, sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, studiousness, study, submergence, submersion, swashing, total immersion, watering, wetting

• immigrant, DP, alien, arrival, arriviste, citizen, citizen by adoption, colonial, colonist, colonizer, comer, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, displaced person, emigrant, emigre, entrant, evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, foreigner, gate-crasher, greenhorn, homesteader, hyphenate, hyphenated American, in-migrant, incomer, intruder, metic, migrant, migrator, migratory worker, national, naturalized citizen, nester, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, nonnative citizen, novus homo, out-migrant, outlander, outsider, parvenu, pioneer, planter, precursor, recruit, rookie, settler, sooner, squatter, stateless person, stowaway, subject, tenderfoot, trekker, upstart, visitant, visitor, wetback

• imminence, access, accession, advance, advent, afflux, affluxion, aftertime, afteryears, anticipation, approach, approaching, appropinquation, approximation, appulse, bulldozing, by-and-by, certainty, coming, coming near, coming toward, commination, confidence, contemplation, course ahead, crystal ball, denunciation, determinism, distant future, empty threat, eventuality, expectancy, expectation, flowing toward, foreboding, foresight, forthcoming, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, hereafter, idle threat, immediate future, immediate prospect, implied threat, intimidation, menace, near future, nearing, nearness, offing, oncoming, outlook, posteriority, prediction, probability, project, promise of harm, prophecy, prospect, proximation, reliance, sword of Damocles, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, thought, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, unastonishment, warning

• imminent, about to be, abusive, advancing, alarming, already in sight, anticipated, approaching, approximate, approximative, at hand, attracted to, awaited, bludgeoning, blustering, brewing, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, close, close at hand, coming, comminatory, denunciatory, desired, destinal, destined, determined, drawn to, due, emergent, eventual, expected, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, fear-inspiring, foreboding, foreseen, forthcoming, future, futuristic, gathering, going to happen, hectoring, hereafter, hoped-for, immediate, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, instant, intimidating, later, likely, long-expected, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, minacious, minatory, momentary, near, near at hand, nearing, nigh, ominous, on the horizon, oncoming, overdue, overhanging, pending, planned, plotted, possible, predicted, preparing, presumed, probable, projected, promised, prophesied, prospective, proximate, sinister, terroristic, terrorizing, that will be, threatening, threatful, to come, to-be, ultimate, unavoidable, upcoming, waiting

• immobile, abiding, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, at anchor, changeless, constant, contemplative, continuing, dead-still, do-nothing, dormant, durable, enduring, firm, fixed, frozen, idle, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, inactive, inert, inflexible, intact, inviolate, irremovable, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lasting, meditative, motionless, moveless, neuter, neutral, out of commission, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, pat, permanent, perpetual, persistent, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, remaining, riding at anchor, rigid, solid, stable, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, statuelike, staying, steadfast, still, stock-still, sustained, torpid, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unemployed, unfading, unfailing, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, unyielding, vegetable, vegetative

• immobility, a wise passiveness, abidingness, changelessness, constancy, contemplation, contemplative life, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, firmness, fixation, fixedness, fixity, frozenness, hardening, hibernation, idleness, immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, inextricability, inflexibility, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, irremovability, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lastingness, long standing, lull, meditation, motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, rigidity, solidity, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standing, standpattism, stasis, steadfastness, suspension, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, underactivity, unmovability, unyieldingness, vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

• immobilize, balance, ballast, counterbalance, cripple, disable, disarm, firm, firm up, freeze, hold, incapacitate, keep, nail down, pin down, prostrate, retain, stabilitate, stabilize, steady, stick, transfix

• immoderate, a bit much, abandoned, acute, bibulous, boundless, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat, cutting, dizzy, drastic, egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fierce, furious, gigantic, gluttonous, go-go, gouging, great, grossly overpriced, high, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, incontinent, indulgent, inflationary, inordinate, intemperate, intense, irrepressible, keen, lax, licentious, loose, monstrous, nonrestrictive, out of bounds, out of control, out of hand, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening, permissive, piercing, preposterous, prodigal, prohibitive, rampant, reinless, rigorous, riotous, rough, self-indulgent, severe, sharp, skyrocketing, spiraling, splitting, steep, stiff, swinish, too much, tough, towering, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, undue, unforced, unfrugal, ungoverned, uninhibited, unlimited, unmastered, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unreasonable, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, vehement, venomous, violent, virulent, wanton, wild

• immodest, aggressively self-confident, arrogant, bawdy, biggety, bold, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, coarse, cocky, conceited, dirty, disrespectful, exhibitionistic, flagrant, forward, fresh, impertinent, improper, impudent, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, insolent, know-it-all, lascivious, lewd, loose, notorious, obscene, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, presumptuous, provocative, puffed up, revealing, self-conceited, self-opinionated, sexy, shameful, shameless, smart-alecky, smutty, stuck-up, swelled-headed, titillating, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unembarrassed, unmodest, unrestrained, wanton

• immodesty, aggressive self-confidence, boldness, brazenness, bumptiousness, chestiness, cockiness, conceit, conceitedness, exhibitionism, flagrancy, forwardness, impudicity, notoriousness, obtrusiveness, perkiness, pertness, self-assertiveness, self-conceit, shamelessness, side, swelled head, swelled-headedness, unembarrassedness, unmodestness

• immolate, annihilate, appease, bereave of life, carry away, carry off, chloroform, cut down, cut off, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, end, execute, exterminate, finish, finish off, immolate before, kill, launch into eternity, liquidate, lynch, make away with, make propitiation, make sacrifice to, martyr, martyrize, offer sacrifice, poison, propitiate, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, remove from life, sacrifice, slay, starve, take life, take off, victimize

• immolation, bane, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, burnt offering, collection, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, drink offering, euthanasia, ex voto offering, execution, extermination, flow of blood, gore, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, incense, infanticide, kill, killing, lapidation, libation, mactation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, oblation, offering, offertory, peace offering, piacular offering, poisoning, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, shooting, slaughter, slaying, stoning, suttee, sutteeism, taking of life, thank offering, votive offering, whole offering

• immoral, abandoned, amoral, bad, base, carnal, concupiscent, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, debauched, degenerate, depraved, devious, dirty, dishonest, dishonorable, dissolute, doubtful, dubious, evasive, evil, felonious, filthy, fishy, flagitious, fraudulent, ill-got, ill-gotten, immodest, impure, indecent, indirect, iniquitous, insidious, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lustful, nefarious, nonmoral, not kosher, obscene, pornographic, questionable, reprobate, rotten, salacious, shady, shameless, shifty, sinful, sinister, slippery, smutty, steeped in vice, suspicious, treacherous, tricky, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vice-laden, vice-prone, vicious, vile, villainous, wanton, wicked, without remorse, without shame, wrong

• immorality, amorality, backsliding, carnality, corruption, criminality, delinquency, depravity, evil, evil nature, impurity, moral delinquency, peccability, prodigality, recidivism, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, wantonness, waywardness, wickedness, wrongdoing

• immortal, Olympian, aggrandized, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, amaranthine, apotheosized, awesome, beatified, beyond compare, beyond comparison, big, big name, boundless, canonized, ceaseless, celebrated, celebrity, changeless, classic, constant, constellation, creating, creative, cynosure, dea, deathless, deified, deity, deus, deva, devi, devil-god, divine, divinity, easily first, elevated, embalmed, eminent, endless, enduring, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, eternal, eternally the same, ever-fresh, everlasting, exalted, excellent, facile princeps, fadeless, false god, famous, figure, folk hero, frozen, galaxy, genius, glorified, glorious, god, goddess, godlike, good, grand, great, great man, hallowed, heathen god, heavenly, held in awe, hero, heroine, high, high and mighty, highest, holy, honored, idol, immortalized, immutable, imperishable, important person, impregnable, incomparable, incorruptible, indelible, indestructible, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, infinite, inimitable, invincible, invulnerable, just, lauded, legend, limitless, lion, lofty, loving, luminaries, luminary, luminous, magnified, majestic, making, man of mark, master spirit, matchless, merciful, mighty, name, never-dying, never-ending, nonperishable, notability, notable, nulli secundus, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, pagan deity, peerless, permanent, perpetual, person of note, personage, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, praised, public figure, quenchless, radiant, remembered, renowned, sacred, sainted, sanctified, second to none, sempiternal, shaping, shrined, social lion, somebody, sovereign, star, sublime, sui generis, supereminent, superstar, supreme, the shining ones, throned, timeless, ubiquitous, unapproachable, unapproached, unbeatable, unbounded, unchanging, undampable, undefined, undestroyable, undying, unending, unequaled, unexampled, unexcelled, unfading, unique, unlimited, unmatchable, unmatched, unparagoned, unparalleled, unpeered, unquenchable, unrivaled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, without equal, without parallel, worthy

• immortality, afterlife, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, athanasia, athanasy, being alive, birth, deathlessness, eternal life, eternal youth, everlastingness, existence, fountain of youth, having life, heroic legend, immortal name, imperishability, impregnability, incorruptibility, incorruption, indelibility, indestructibility, ineffaceability, ineradicability, inerasableness, inexpugnability, invincibility, invulnerability, legend, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, memory, remembrance, spriteliness, undying fame, undyingness, viability, vitality, vivacity

• immortalize, aggrandize, apotheose, apotheosize, beatify, canonize, celebrate, commemorate, crown, deify, elevate, embalm, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, eternalize, eternize, exalt, extol, freeze, glamorize, glorify, honor, keep alive, keep fresh, lionize, magnify, make legendary, memorialize, monumentalize, perennialize, perpetuate, preserve, preserve from oblivion, raise, saint, sanctify, set up, throne, uplift

• immortalized, aggrandized, apotheosized, awesome, beatified, big, canonized, deified, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, excellent, glorified, grand, great, held in awe, high, high and mighty, immortal, lofty, magnified, mighty, sainted, sanctified, shrined, sublime, supereminent, throned

• immovable, adamant, adamantine, affectless, anchored, anesthetized, arctic, at a standstill, autistic, blunt, cast-iron, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, constant, cool, determined, dispassionate, dogged, dour, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, fast, firm, fixed, flinty, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, grim, hard, hard-core, heartless, icy, immobile, immotile, immotive, immutable, impassible, impassive, implacable, impliable, inalterable, inductile, inelastic, inexcitable, inexorable, inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, inflexible, insusceptible, intractable, intractile, intransigent, invariable, iron, irreconcilable, irremovable, irresilient, loyal, motionless, nonelastic, nonemotional, nonstretchable, obdurate, objective, obtuse, out of touch, passionless, pat, relentless, resolute, rigid, rigorous, riveted, rock-ribbed, rooted, self-absorbed, set, settled, sot, soulless, spiritless, stable, standpat, stationary, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stern, stiff, stony, stubborn, stuck, true, unaffected, unaffectionate, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, undeflectable, unemotional, unextendible, unextensible, unfeeling, unflappable, unflexible, unflinching, ungiving, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unlimber, unloving, unmalleable, unmodifiable, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpassionate, unpliable, unpliant, unrelenting, unresponding, unresponsive, unshakable, unshakeable, unshaken, unsusceptible, unswerving, unsympathetic, untouchable, untractable, unwavering, unyielding

• immune, chartered, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, favored, immunized, inoculated, insured, insusceptible, intact, invulnerable, irresponsible, let off, licensed, nonsusceptible to disease, permitted, privileged, protected, released, resistant, safe, safe and sound, secure, spared, unaccountable, unaffected, unanswerable, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unliable, unscathed, unsubject, unsusceptible, unthreatened, untouched, vaccinated

• immunity, absolution, acquired immunity, active immunity, amnesty, antibody, antigen, artificial immunity, assurance, blank check, carte blanche, charter, clear sailing, congenital immunity, copyright, diplomatic immunity, discharge, dispensation, exception, exclusion, exculpation, excuse, exemption, exoneration, familial immunity, favor, franchise, freedom, grace, grant, harmlessness, immunity theory, immunization, immunization therapy, immunochemistry, immunology, immunotherapy, impunity, indemnity, indulgence, inherent immunity, inherited immunity, inoculation, insusceptibility, invulnerability, legislative immunity, liberty, license, natural immunity, nolle prosequi, non prosequitur, nonprosecution, nonspecific immunity, nonsusceptibility to disease, opsonic immunity, pardon, passive immunity, patch test, patent, permission, phagocytic immunity, privilege, protection, racial immunity, redemption, release, remission, remission of sin, reprieve, resistance, risklessness, safeguard, safeness, safety, scratch test, security, serotherapeutics, serotherapy, serum therapy, shrift, side-chain theory, sparing, special favor, specific immunity, stay, surety, toxin-antitoxin immunity, toxin-antitoxin immunization, tuberculin test, unsusceptibility, vaccination, vaccine therapy, vaccinotherapy, warrant

• immunization, acquired immunity, active immunity, antibody, antigen, artificial immunity, congenital immunity, familial immunity, immunity, immunity theory, immunization therapy, immunochemistry, immunology, immunotherapy, inherent immunity, inherited immunity, natural immunity, nonspecific immunity, nonsusceptibility to disease, opsonic immunity, passive immunity, patch test, phagocytic immunity, racial immunity, resistance, scratch test, serotherapeutics, serotherapy, serum therapy, side-chain theory, specific immunity, toxin-antitoxin immunity, toxin-antitoxin immunization, tuberculin test, vaccine therapy, vaccinotherapy

• immure, bastille, bolt in, bottle up, box in, box up, cabin, cage, casket, cast in prison, check, clap in jail, clap up, cloister, closet, coffin, confine, constrain, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, corral, cramp, crib, detain, encage, encase, enclose, entomb, fence, fence in, gaol, hedge, hem, hem in, hold, hold captive, hold in captivity, hold in custody, hold in restraint, hold prisoner, impound, imprison, incarcerate, inhibit, intern, jail, jug, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, lock in, lock up, mew, mew up, pen, pen up, pound, prison, quod, rail in, restrain, restrict, seal up, shackle, shut in, shut up, straiten, throw into jail, wall, wall in

• immured, barred, behind bars, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, cloistered, closed-in, confined, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, enclosed, fenced, hedged, hemmed, imprisoned, in captivity, in durance vile, in prison, in stir, incarcerated, jailed, leaguered, locked up, mewed, paled, penned, pent-up, quarantined, railed, restrained, shut-in, walled, walled-in

• immutable, abiding, accordant, adamant, adamantine, age-long, aged, alike, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, ancient, antique, balanced, boundless, cast-iron, changeless, chronic, consistent, consonant, constant, continuing, continuous, correspondent, creating, creative, diligent, diuturnal, dogged, dour, durable, enduring, equable, equal, eternal, eternally the same, even, evergreen, everlasting, faithful, firm, fixed, flat, flinty, frozen, glorious, good, grim, hallowed, hard, hard-core, hardy, highest, holy, homogeneous, immobile, immortal, immovable, implacable, impliable, inalterable, incommutable, inconvertible, indefatigable, indefeasible, indomitable, inductile, industrious, inelastic, inert, inexorable, inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, infinite, inflexible, insistent, insusceptible of change, intact, intractable, intractile, intransient, intransigent, intransmutable, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, iron, irreconcilable, irresilient, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, just, lasting, level, limitless, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, loving, loyal, luminous, macrobiotic, majestic, making, measured, mechanical, merciful, methodic, monolithic, never-tiring, noble, nonelastic, nonreturnable, nonreversible, nonstretchable, numinous, obstinate, of a piece, of long duration, of long standing, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, ordered, orderly, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, quiescent, radiant, rapt, regular, relentless, remaining, resolute, reverseless, rigid, rigorous, robotlike, rock-ribbed, sacred, sedulous, sempervirent, shaping, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, smooth, solid, sovereign, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, steely, stern, stiff, stubborn, supreme, sustained, systematic, tenacious, timeless, tireless, torpid, tough, ubiquitous, unabating, unaffected, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unbending, unbounded, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, uncompromising, unconquerable, undaunted, undefined, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiscouraged, undiversified, undrooping, unextendible, unextensible, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflexible, unflinching, ungiving, uniform, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unlimber, unlimited, unmalleable, unmodifiable, unmovable, unmoved, unnodding, unpliable, unpliant, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unruffled, unshifting, unsleeping, unsusceptible, unswerving, untiring, untractable, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vital, weariless

• imp, Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob, Hobgoblin, JD, Mab, Oberon, Puck, Titania, appendage, arm, bad boy, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee, booger, bough, branch, brat, brownie, buffoon, bugger, cluricaune, cutup, devil, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, dwarf, elf, enfant terrible, erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, funmaker, gamin, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hand, hob, hobgoblin, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, joint, joker, jokester, juvenile delinquent, knave, kobold, leg, leprechaun, limb, link, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lobe, lobule, member, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, monkey, offshoot, organ, ouphe, peri, pinion, pixie, poltergeist, pooka, practical joker, prankster, puca, puck, punk, punk kid, pwca, ramification, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, runner, scamp, scapegrace, scion, spoiled brat, spray, sprig, sprite, spur, switch, sylph, sylphid, tail, tendril, tokoloshe, troll, twig, urchin, wag, whippersnapper, wing, young devil

• impact, affect, affective meaning, altitude peak, appulse, automatic control, backlash, backwash, bearing, bed, blast-off, blow, bounce, brunt, buffet, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bumping, burden, burn, burnout, cannon, carambole, carom, ceiling, change, clash, clout, colliding, collision, coloring, concussion, confirm, connotation, consequence, consequences, contact, crack-up, cram in, crash, crashing, crowd in, crump, crunch, deep-dye, define, denotation, descent, drift, drive in, effect, embed, encounter, end of burning, engraft, engrave, entrench, essence, establish, etch, extension, fix, flight, force, force in, found, gist, grammatical meaning, ground, hammering, hit, idea, ignition, impingement, implant, implication, import, impress, impression, imprint, infix, influence, ingrain, inscribe, intension, jam, jam in, jar, jolt, jounce, knock in, launch, lexical meaning, lift-off, literal meaning, lodge, mark, mauling, meaning, meeting, modify, onslaught, overtone, pack, pack in, percussion, pertinence, pith, plant, plunge in, point, poke in, pound, pound in, practical consequence, press in, print, punch, purport, push in, quake, quiver, ram in, ramming, range of meaning, rap, reaction, real meaning, recoil, reference, referent, reflex, relation, relevance, repercussion, response, results, rock, rocket launching, root, run in, scope, seat, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, set, set in, settle, shake, shock, shoot, shot, sideswipe, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, slap, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, span of meaning, spirit, squeeze in, stamp, stereotype, strike, striking, stroke, structural meaning, stuff in, substance, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tamp in, tenor, thrust, thrust in, thrusting, totality of associations, trajectory, transferred meaning, tremble, tremor, unadorned meaning, undertone, value, velocity peak, wallop, wedge, wedge in, weight, whomp

• impair, abate, abrade, abstract, abuse, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, bate, befoul, bewitch, blemish, blight, condemn, corrupt, cripple, crucify, curse, curtail, damage, decrease, deduct, defile, deprave, depreciate, derogate, despoil, destroy, deteriorate, detract, dilapidate, diminish, disadvantage, disparage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drain, eat away, embitter, endamage, envenom, erode, exacerbate, extract, file away, get into trouble, harass, harm, hex, hurt, infect, injure, irritate, jinx, leach, lessen, make worse, maltreat, mar, menace, mistreat, molest, outrage, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, purify, put back, reduce, refine, remove, retrench, rub away, ruin, sap, savage, scathe, shorten, spoil, subduct, subtract, taint, take away, take from, tarnish, thin, thin out, threaten, torment, torture, undermine, violate, vitiate, weaken, wear away, weed, withdraw, worsen, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

• impaired, adulterated, aggravated, blemished, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, defective, deficient, deteriorated, embittered, erroneous, exacerbated, fallible, faulty, flawed, found wanting, harmed, hurt, immature, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in bits, in pieces, in shards, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, injured, irritated, lacerated, lacking, makeshift, mangled, marred, mediocre, mixed, mutilated, not perfect, off, partial, patchy, rent, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, short, sketchy, slashed, slit, smashed, split, spoiled, sprung, the worse for, torn, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unsound, unthorough, wanting, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

• impairment, adulteration, attrition, curtailment, cut, cutting, damage, debilitation, decrease, decrement, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, depletion, depreciation, derogation, deterioration, detraction, detriment, diminution, dip, disadvantage, disparagement, drawback, enfeeblement, erroneousness, extraction, fallibility, faultiness, flaw, handicap, harm, hurt, immaturity, imperfection, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, inexactitude, inexactness, injury, lack, lessening, liability, loss, loss of ground, marring, mediocrity, mischief, patchiness, prejudice, reduction, remission, retraction, retrenchment, shortage, shortcoming, shortening, shrinkage, sketchiness, step backward, truncation, undermining, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, vitiation, want, weakening, worsening

• impale, agonize, auger, bayonet, bite, bloody, bore, broach, claw, convulse, countersink, crucify, dagger, dirk, dismember, draw and quarter, drill, empierce, excruciate, fix, gore, gouge, gouge out, grill, harrow, hole, honeycomb, keelhaul, kill by inches, knife, lacerate, lance, lancinate, macerate, martyr, martyrize, needle, penetrate, perforate, picket, pierce, pink, plunge in, poniard, prick, punch, puncture, punish, rack, ream, ream out, riddle, rip, run through, saber, savage, scarify, skewer, spear, spike, spit, stab, stick, stiletto, sword, tap, tar and feather, torment, torture, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, wring

• impalpable, airy, asomatous, astral, atomic, bodiless, branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, corpuscular, crushed, decarnate, decarnated, detrital, detrited, discarnate, disembodied, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, furfuraceous, germinal, ghostly, gone to dust, granular, grated, ground, immaterial, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, incorporate, incorporeal, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, invisible, levigated, mealy, microcosmic, microscopic, milled, molecular, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, otherworldly, pestled, phantom, powdered, powdery, psychic, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, shadowy, sharded, shredded, spiritual, subatomic, supernatural, tenuous, thin, transmundane, triturated, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unobservable, unperceivable, unphysical, unseeable, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unworldly, weightless

• impanel, book, calendar, carve, catalog, chalk, chalk up, check in, chronicle, cut, docket, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, file, fill out, grave, impanel a jury, incise, index, inscribe, insert, inventory, itemize, jot down, keep score, list, log, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, minute, note, note down, panel, pigeonhole, place upon record, poll, post, post up, program, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, record, reduce to writing, register, schedule, score, set down, tabulate, take down, tally, tape, tape-record, videotape, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

• impanelment, booking, cataloging, chronicling, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, jury selection, listing, logging, matriculation, posting, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, tabulation, venire, venire facias

• impart, accord, administer, afford, allot, allow, articulate, assign, award, bare, bestow, bestow on, break, break the seal, breathe, bring to light, broadcast, carry over, cede, chime, chorus, come out with, communicate, confer, confide, consign, contribute, convey, deal, deal out, deliver, deport, develop, diffuse, disclose, discover, dish out, dismask, dispense, disseminate, divulge, dole, dole out, donate, draw the veil, emit, enunciate, expel, export, expose, express, extend, extradite, fling off, fork out, formulate, get across, get over, gift, gift with, give, give expression, give freely, give out, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, give word, grant, hand forward, hand on, hand out, hand over, heap, help to, import, intimate, issue, lavish, lay bare, lay open, leave word, lend, let daylight in, let have, let out, lip, make known, make over, manifest, metastasize, metathesize, mete, mete out, offer, open, open up, out with, pass, pass along, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, perfuse, phonate, phrase, pour, pour forth, present, proffer, pronounce, put forth, put in words, rain, raise, raise the curtain, relate, relay, render, report, reveal, say, send, send word, serve, set forth, share, share with, shell out, show, show up, shower, signal, slip, snow, sound, spread, strip bare, switch, tell, tender, throw off, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transpose, turn over, uncloak, uncover, undrape, unfold, unfurl, unkennel, unmask, unpack, unroll, unscreen, unsheathe, unshroud, unveil, unwrap, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, vouchsafe, whisper, word, yield

• impartable, allowable, assignable, bequeathable, bestowable, communicable, conductive, consignable, contagious, conveyable, devisable, expressable, giveable, interchangeable, mailable, metathetic, movable, portable, portative, presentable, removable, transferable, transfusable, transmissible, transmissive, transmittable, transportable, transportative, transposable

• impartial, Laodicean, Olympian, apathetic, candid, centrist, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equal, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, impersonal, independent, indifferent, just, lofty, midway, moderate, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonpartisan, objective, on the fence, passive, selfless, third-force, third-world, unbiased, uncolored, uncommitted, undazzled, uninfluenced, uninvolved, unjaundiced, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unselfish, unswayed

• impartiality, Olympian detachment, abnegation, abstention, abstinence, anythingarianism, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, cop-out, detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, equitability, evasion, evenhandedness, evenness, fairness, fence-sitting, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, independence, indifference, judiciousness, juste-milieu, justness, lenity, loftiness, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality, nonalignment, noncommitment, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nonviolence, nothing in excess, nothingarianism, objectivity, pacifism, prudence, repose, restraint, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, selflessness, serenity, sobriety, stability, steadiness, strict neutrality, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unbias, unbiasedness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unopinionatedness, unprejudicedness, unselfishness, via media

• impasse, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, box, cecum, choking, choking off, clog, congestion, constipation, corner, costiveness, cul-de-sac, dead end, dead-end street, deadlock, dilemma, embolism, embolus, extremity, fix, gorge, halt, hole, impediment, infarct, infarction, jam, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, pickle, plight, pocket, scrape, sealing off, stalemate, stand, stand-off, standstill, stop, stoppage, strangulation

• impassion, agitate, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, blow the coals, blow up, call forth, call up, enkindle, enrage, excite, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, heat, heat up, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, instigate, key up, kindle, lather up, light the fuse, light up, madden, move, nettle, overexcite, pique, provoke, put up to, rally, rouse, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, sic on, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, tickle, turn on, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip up, work into, work up

• impassioned, abandoned, ablaze, afire, agog, amative, amatory, amorous, animated, aquiver, ardent, aroused, atingle, atwitter, blazing, boiling over, breathless, burning, bursting, carried away, committed, cordial, dedicated, deep, delirious, desirous, devoted, devout, dithyrambic, drunk, eager, earnest, ebullient, effervescent, emotional, emphatic, enthusiastic, erotic, excited, exciting, exhilarated, exuberant, faithful, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, fired, flaming, flushed, furious, glowing, gushing, gushy, hearty, heated, high, hopped up, hot, hot-blooded, in earnest, inflamed, inspired, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, keen, keyed up, lascivious, lathered up, lively, loverlike, loverly, loyal, manic, maudlin, melodramatic, moved, mushy, on fire, overemotional, overheated, passionate, perfervid, profound, provoking, ready to burst, red-hot, resolute, romantic, roused, rousing, sentimental, serious, sexual, sincere, spirited, steamed up, steaming, steamy, stimulated, stimulating, stirred, stirred up, stirring, thrilled, tingling, tingly, torrid, turned-on, unrestrained, urgent, vehement, vigorous, violent, warm, whipped up, white-hot, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, zealous

• impassive, Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, at rest, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, blunt, bored, bovine, callous, calm, careless, catatonic, chill, chilled, chilly, cloistered, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, collected, composed, constrained, contained, controlled, cool, deadpan, detached, discreet, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, drugged, dry, dull, dwindling, ebbing, emotionally dead, emotionless, empty, even-tempered, even-tenored, expressionless, fishy, forbidding, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, glassy, guarded, halcyon, hardened, heartless, heedless, hushed, icy, immovable, impassible, impersonal, imperturbable, inaccessible, incurious, indifferent, indurated, inexcitable, inexpressive, inirritable, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insouciant, insusceptible, introverted, isolated, lackadaisical, listless, matter-of-fact, mindless, modest, moldering, nonchalant, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, offish, out of touch, pacific, passionless, patient, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, poker-faced, quiescent, quiet, regardless, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, repressed, reserved, restful, resting, restrained, reticent, retiring, secluded, self-absorbed, sequestered, sequestrated, serene, sheltered, shrinking, smooth, soulless, spiritless, standoff, standoffish, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stoical, stolid, stony, subdued, subsiding, suppressed, taciturn, tranquil, unaffable, unaffectionate, unagitated, unapproachable, uncaring, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, undisturbable, undisturbed, unemotional, unexcitable, unexpansive, unexpressive, unfeeling, unflappable, ungenial, unimpassioned, unimpressible, unimpressionable, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unirritable, unloving, unmindful, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate, unperturbed, unresponding, unresponsive, unruffled, unstirring, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, untroubled, vacant, waning, withdrawn, wooden

• impatience, alacrity, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, avidity, avidness, breathless impatience, cheerful readiness, eagerness, elan, forwardness, gust, gusto, haste, hastiness, impetuosity, impetuousness, impulsiveness, keen desire, keenness, life, liveliness, overhastiness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, promptness, quickness, rashness, readiness, recklessness, spirit, suddenness, verve, vitality, vivacity, zest, zestfulness

• impatient, abrupt, agitated, agog, alacritous, all agog, animated, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, athirst, avid, breathless, brusque, bursting to, chafing, curt, demanding, desirous, eager, edgy, excited, fidgety, forward, fretful, fretting, full of life, hasty, headlong, hopped-up, hot-tempered, impetuous, impulsive, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, indignant, irascible, irritable, itchy, keen, lively, nervous, on edge, overhasty, panting, precipitate, prompt, querulous, quick, raring to, rash, ready, ready and willing, reckless, restive, restless, short, short-tempered, snappish, spirited, squirming, squirmy, sudden, testy, thirsty, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, vital, vivacious, vivid, waspish, zestful

• impatiently, animatedly, anxiously, avidly, breathlessly, eagerly, enthusiastically, fretfully, intolerantly, keenly, promptly, quickly, readily, restively, restlessly, uneasily, vivaciously, with alacrity, with gusto, with open arms, with relish, with zest, zestfully

• impeach, accuse, allege, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, article, asperse, attack, belittle, blame, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, call into question, call to account, cast aspersions on, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure, challenge, charge, cite, complain, complain against, condemn, criminate, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, damn, declaim, decry, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, discredit, disparage, fasten on, fasten upon, file a claim, finger, fulminate against, hang something on, have up, implicate, imply, impugn, impute, incriminate, inculpate, indict, inform against, inform on, insinuate, inveigh against, lay charges, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, malign, pin on, prefer charges, press charges, pull up, put on report, reflect upon, report, reprehend, reproach, reprobate, shake up, slander, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, twit, vilify

• impeachable, accusable, arraignable, at fault, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, chargeable, criminal, culpable, faulty, guilty, implicated, imputable, inculpated, indictable, involved, open to criticism, peccant, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, to blame

• impeached, accused, arraigned, blamed, charged, cited, denounced, implicated, impugned, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, indicted, involved, reproached, tasked, taxed, under attack, under fire

• impeccable, absolute, accurate, beyond all praise, blameless, chaste, clean, correct, defectless, destitute, errorless, exact, exquisite, faultless, flawless, ideal, immaculate, impecunious, impoverished, indefectible, indefective, indigent, infallible, irreproachable, just right, necessitous, needy, nice, peerless, penurious, perfect, poverty-stricken, precise, proper, pure, right, sinless, spotless, stainless, taintless, unadulterated, unblemished, uncontaminated, undefiled, unerring, unfaultable, unflawed, unimpeachable, unmixed, unprosperous, unsoiled, unspotted, unsullied, untainted, white

• impecunious, badly off, destitute, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, hard up, ill off, in Queer Street, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, land-poor, narrow, on the edge, out of pocket, pinched, poor, poorly off, poverty-stricken, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, squeezed, straitened, strapped, unmoneyed, unprosperous

• impedance, capacitive reactance, clog, cumbrance, electric resistance, hindrance, impediment, inductive reactance, magnetic reluctance, ohm, ohmage, reactance, reluctance, reluctivity, resistance, skin effect, specific reluctance, surface resistance, volume resistance

• impede, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bar, block, bottle up, brake, burden, check, clip the wings, confine, confound, countercheck, cramp, cripple, cumber, curb, dam, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, delay, detain, discomfit, disconcert, drag, draw rein, ease off, ease up, embarrass, encumber, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, faze, fetter, foil, hamper, hamstring, handicap, hinder, hobble, hold back, hold in check, hold up, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, involve, keep back, keep in check, lag, lame, let down, let up, lime, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, lumber, make late, meddle, moderate, net, obstruct, oppose, press down, rattle, reef, rein in, relax, repress, resist, restrain, retard, saddle with, scotch, set back, shackle, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, snarl, snub, spike, stay, stop, suppress, take in sail, tangle, throttle down, thwart, toil, trammel, weigh down

• impediment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, bottleneck, burden, burthen, cargo, cecum, charge, check, choking, choking off, clog, clogging, closing up, closure, congestion, constipation, constriction, costiveness, cramp, cross, cul-de-sac, cumbrance, curb, dead end, deadweight, delay, detainment, detention, difficulty, disadvantage, embarrassment, embolism, embolus, encumbrance, fixation, foot-dragging, freight, gorge, hamper, hampering, handicap, hang-up, hindering, hindrance, hitch, hold-up, holdback, holdup, hurdle, impasse, impedance, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, infarct, infarction, inhibition, interference, interruption, jam, let, load, lumber, mountain, negativism, nuisance value, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, onus, opposition, pack, penalty, repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, rub, sealing off, setback, snag, squeeze, stop, stoppage, stranglehold, strangulation, stricture, stumbling block, suppression, trouble, weight, white elephant

• impedimenta, accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, bag and baggage, baggage, burden, burthen, cargo, charge, consignment, conveniences, cross, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, duffel, dunnage, embarrassment, encumbrance, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, freight, freightage, furnishings, furniture, gear, goods, hamper, handicap, impediment, imposition, inconvenience, installations, kit, lading, load, luggage, lumber, machinery, materiel, munition, munitions, onus, outfit, pack, paraphernalia, payload, penalty, plant, plumbing, rig, rigging, shipment, stock-in-trade, tackle, things, traps, trouble, utensils, weight, white elephant

• impel, actuate, advance, animate, beset, bind, bowl, bunt, butt, cause, cause to, compel, constrain, drive, drive on, energize, enforce, foment, force, forward, foster, galvanize, give an impetus, give momentum, goad, grip, have, hold, incite, infatuate, inspire, instigate, make, mobilize, motivate, move, move to action, not let go, nudge, obsess, pedal, pole, possess, power, preoccupy, promote, propel, push, put in motion, restrain, roll, row, set agoing, set going, set in motion, shove, shunt, spark, spur, stimulate, sweep, sweep along, thrust, tie, treadle, troll, trundle, use force upon, whip on

• impelling, active, actuating, animating, causal, causative, compelling, compulsive, directive, driving, gripping, holding, impellent, impulsive, in motion, inducive, mobile, motile, motivating, motivational, motive, motor, moving, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, possessing, preoccupying, pressing, propellant, propelling, pulsive, stirring, thrusting, transitional, traveling, urgent

• impend, approach, await, be as expected, be imminent, be in store, beetle, brew, come on, confront, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, expect it of, face, forthcome, gather, hang out, hang over, hover, impend over, jut, lie over, loom, lower, menace, near, overhang, project, project over, threaten, thrust over

• impending, about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen, immediate, imminent, impendent, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the air, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, incumbent, instant, jutting, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, near, near at hand, nearing, on the horizon, overhanging, overhung, pending, preparing, projecting, proximate, superincumbent, that will be, threatening, to come, upcoming, waiting

• impenetrable, Greek to one, ambiguous, arcane, beyond reach, beyond understanding, cabalistic, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, closed forever to, closed to, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, crammed, crammed full, crowded, dense, exuberant, firm, flourishing, gluey, gross, hard, heavy, holeproof, impassable, impermeable, impervious, impregnable, inaccessible, inarticulate, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, incontestable, indomitable, inexpugnable, inscrutable, insuperable, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, irresistible, jam-packed, jammed, jungled, jungly, lost to, lush, luxuriant, massive, mystic, nonporous, nonpuncturable, numinous, out of reach, overgrown, overpowering, overrun, overwhelming, packed, past comprehension, punctureproof, rambling, rank, resistless, riotous, serried, solid, substantial, thick, thick-growing, thickset, un-come-at-able, unaccessible, unaccountable, unapproachable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unbeatable, unconnected, unconquerable, undiscoverable, unfathomable, ungettable, ungraspable, unguessed, unintelligible, unknowable, unobtainable, unpassable, unperforable, unpierceable, unprocurable, unreachable, unsearchable, unsecurable, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unweeded, unyielding, viscid, viscose, viscous, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy

• imperative, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, acid, acute, allegiance, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, ascendant, assigned task, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, basic, behest, bidding, binding, biting, bossy, bounden duty, burden, burning, business, call of duty, canon, case of need, charge, choiceless, claimed, clamant, clamorous, clothed with authority, coactive, code, command, commanding, commandment, commitment, compelling, competent, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, conclusive, conditional, consequential, considerable, constraining, controlling, convention, corrosive, critical, crucial, crying, cutting, de rigueur, decisive, decretal, decretive, decretory, dedication, deference, demanded, despotic, devoir, devotion, dictate, dictated, dictating, dictation, dictatorial, dictum, dire necessity, direct order, directive, dogmatic, dominant, domineering, driving, duly constituted, duties and responsibilities, duty, effective, eminent, empowered, entailed, essential, ethics, ex officio, exigence, exigency, exigent, fealty, feudal, final, forceful, forcible, form, formula, fundamental, general principle, golden rule, governing, great, grinding, guideline, guiding principle, gutsy, hard-and-fast, harsh, hegemonic, hegemonistic, hest, high-handed, high-pressure, high-priority, homage, immediacy, imperativeness, imperial, imperious, important, importunate, imposed, impressive, incisive, indicative, indispensable, inevitable, influential, insistent, instant, instructive, involuntary, irresistible, irrevocable, jussive, law, leading, line of duty, lordly, loyalty, magisterial, magistral, mandated, mandating, mandatory, masterful, matter of necessity, maxim, mighty, mission, mitzvah, mode, momentous, monocratic, mood, moral, mordant, must, necessary, necessitous, nervous, norm, obligating, obligation, obligative, obligatory, official, onus, oppressive, optative, order, ordering, ordinance, ought, overbearing, overruling, penetrating, peremptory, permissive, piercing, pivotal, place, pleasure, poignant, potent, potential, powerful, preceptive, predicament, preeminent, prerequisite, prescript, prescriptive, pressing, pressingness, pressure, prestigious, principium, principle, prominent, puissant, punchy, ranking, regulation, repressive, required, requisite, respect, restraining, rubric, rule, ruling, say-so, self-imposed duty, senior, sensational, settled principle, severe, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, special order, standard, stern, strict, striking, strong, subjunctive, substantial, superior, suppressive, supreme, telling, tenet, totalitarian, trenchant, tyrannical, tyrannous, ultimate, urgency, urgent, urgent need, vigorous, vital, weighty, will, without appeal, without choice, word, word of command, working principle, working rule

• imperceptible, atomic, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, camouflaged, concealed, corpuscular, disguised, embryonic, ephemeral, evanescent, faint, fugitive, germinal, granular, hidden, ill-defined, impalpable, imponderable, inappreciable, inaudible, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indiscernible, indistinct, indistinguishable, infinitesimal, insensible, insignificant, intangible, invisible, latent, microcosmic, microscopic, minuscule, minute, molecular, momentary, obscure, out of sight, secret, sightless, slight, subatomic, submerged, subtle, tenuous, thin, tiny, trivial, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unbeheld, unbeholdable, unclear, undiscernible, undistinguishable, unnoticeable, unnoticed, unobservable, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unseeable, unseen, unviewed, unwitnessed, vague, viewless

• imperfect, adulterated, aggravated, amiss, aorist, base, blemished, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, defective, deficient, deteriorated, durative, embittered, erroneous, exacerbated, failing, fallible, faulty, flawed, found wanting, future, future perfect, harmed, historical present, hurt, immature, impaired, imprecise, impure, in bits, in pieces, in shards, inaccurate, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete, inexact, injured, insufficient, irritated, lacerated, lacking, little, makeshift, maladroit, mangled, mean, mediocre, mixed, mutilated, not comparable, not enough, not in it, not perfect, off, out of it, partial, past, past perfect, patchy, perfect, petty, pluperfect, point tense, present, present perfect, preterit, progressive tense, rent, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shabby, shattered, short, sick, sketchy, slashed, slit, small, smashed, split, sprung, tense, the worse for, too little, torn, trivial, undeveloped, unequal to, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unskillful, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, wanting, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

• imperfection, absence, arrear, arrearage, arrears, bad habit, baseness, beggary, besetting sin, blemish, bug, catch, crack, damage, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, demerit, deprivation, destitution, drawback, drought, error, failing, failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, fault, faute, fewness, flaw, foible, frailty, hole, impoverishment, inadequacy, incompetence, incompleteness, inferiority, infirmity, insufficiency, kink, lack, little problem, littleness, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, moral flaw, need, omission, peccadillo, pettiness, problem, rift, shabbiness, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sin, slump, smallness, snag, something missing, starvation, subnormality, taint, triviality, underage, unskillfulness, vice, vulgarity, vulnerable place, want, wantage, weak link, weak point, weak side, weakness

• imperfectly, a bit, a little, barely, by a hair, by an ace, defectively, deficiently, ever so little, exiguously, faintly, faultily, feebly, hardly, inadequately, inappreciably, incompletely, inconsequentially, insignificantly, just a bit, lightly, little, meagerly, minimally, minutely, negligibly, not hardly, only just, partially, scantily, scarcely, slightly, tant soit peu, triflingly, weakly

• imperial, Vandyke, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, august, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beard, beaver, bossy, bristles, crown, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, down, duodecimo, dynastic, eighteenmo, exalted, excellent, feudal, folio, goatee, grand, grinding, high-handed, imperative, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperious, imposing, kinglike, kingly, lofty, lordly, magisterial, magistral, magnificent, majestic, masterful, medium, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, noble, octavo, octodecimo, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peach fuzz, peremptory, princelike, princely, purple, quarto, queenlike, queenly, regal, repressive, royal, severe, sextodecimo, side whiskers, sixteenmo, sovereign, splendid, strict, stubble, super, superior, suppressive, supreme, tuft, twelvemo, tyrannical, tyrannous, whiskers

• imperialism, Eisenhower Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Nazism, Nixon Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, appeasement, balance of power, brinkmanship, caliphate, centralism, coexistence, collectivism, colonialism, communism, compromise, constitutionalism, containment, czardom, democratism, detente, deterrence, diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, emperorship, empery, empire, expansionism, fascism, federalism, feudalism, feudality, foreign affairs, foreign policy, good-neighbor policy, governmentalism, internationalism, isolationism, kaiserdom, kaisership, kinghood, kingship, majesty, manifest destiny, militarism, monarchism, national socialism, nationalism, neocolonialism, neofascism, neutralism, nonresistance, open door, open-door policy, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, pluralism, political principles, preparedness, queenhood, queenship, rajaship, regnancy, republicanism, royalism, royalty, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, socialism, sovereignty, spheres of influence, statism, sultanate, sultanship, the big stick, the crown, the throne, tough policy, world politics

• imperialist, Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, conservatist, conservative, diehard, extreme right-winger, hard hat, monarchist, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, right, right wing, right-winger, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, ultraconservative

• imperilment, breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, emergency, endangerment, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, hazard, house of cards, jeopardy, menace, pass, peril, pinch, plight, predicament, quicksand, risk, rocks ahead, storm clouds, strait, thin ice, threat

• imperious, U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, acute, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, binding, bossy, clamorous, coactive, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, de rigueur, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, driving, dynastic, elitist, exigent, feudal, grinding, heavy-handed, high and mighty, high-handed, high-pressure, high-priority, hubristic, imperative, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, insistent, instant, irresistible, kinglike, kingly, lordly, magisterial, magistral, majestic, mandatory, masterful, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, must, necessary, obligatory, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory, pivotal, pressing, princelike, princely, purple, queenlike, queenly, regal, repressive, required, restraining, royal, severe, sovereign, strict, stringent, suppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous, urgent

• imperishable, amaranthine, deathless, embalmed, ever-fresh, everlasting, fadeless, frozen, immortal, impregnable, incorruptible, indelible, indestructible, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, invincible, invulnerable, irrefragable, never-dying, nonperishable, quenchless, undampable, undestroyable, undying, unfading, unquenchable

• impermanence, adaptability, adjustability, alterability, caducity, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, corruptibility, death, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, finitude, fleetingness, flexibility, fluidity, fugacity, impermanency, instability, malleability, mobility, modifiability, momentariness, mortality, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, perishability, permutability, plasticity, resilience, rubberiness, suppleness, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, volatility

• impermanent, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, brittle, capricious, changeable, checkered, corruptible, deciduous, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, ever-changing, fading, fickle, fleeting, flexible, flitting, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal, movable, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonuniform, passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, short-lived, supple, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, variable, volatile

• impermeable, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, closed, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, crammed, crammed full, crowded, dense, firm, gluey, hard, heavy, hermetic, holeproof, impassable, impenetrable, impervious, jam-packed, jammed, massive, nonporous, nonpuncturable, packed, punctureproof, sealed, serried, solid, substantial, thick, thick-growing, thickset, unpassable, unperforable, unpierceable, viscid, viscose, viscous

• impersonal, Olympian, abstract, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, candid, chilled, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, colorless, constrained, conventionalized, cool, detached, discreet, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, emotionless, equal, equitable, evenhanded, expressionless, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic, fair, forbidding, foreign, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, frigid, frosty, guarded, icy, impartial, impassive, inaccessible, indifferent, introverted, just, legalistic, lofty, matter-of-fact, mechanical, modest, neutral, nominal, nonsubjective, objective, offish, outlying, outside, outward, pedantic, poker-faced, prim, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, rigid, selfless, shrinking, standoff, standoffish, stiff, strait-laced, stuffy, stylized, subdued, superficial, suppressed, surface, unaffable, unapproachable, unbiased, uncolored, uncongenial, undazzled, undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unimpassioned, uninfluenced, unjaundiced, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unselfish, unswayed, withdrawn, wooden

• impersonate, act, act a part, act as, act out, adumbrate, ape, body forth, copy, copycat, create a role, demonstrate, depict, discourse, do, embody, enact, exemplify, figure, foreshadow, hit off, hit off on, illustrate, image, incarnate, make false pretenses, masquerade as, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, pantomime, parrot, pass for, perform, personate, personify, play, play a part, play a role, play opposite, playact, portray, pose as, prefigure, pretend to be, pretypify, project, realize, reflect, represent, shadow, shadow forth, support, sustain a part, take a part, take off, take off on

• impersonation, acting, aping, buffoonery, business, characterization, copying, counterfeiting, dumb show, embodiment, emulation, enacting, enactment, fakery, following, forgery, gag, ham, hammy acting, hit-off, hoke, hokum, imitation, imposture, impression, incarnation, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mirroring, mummery, onomatopoeia, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, parody, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, playing, portrayal, posing, projection, repetition, representation, simulation, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, takeoff, taking a role

• impersonator, ape, artist, artiste, belly dancer, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, burlesque queen, charlatan, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conformist, conjurer, copier, copycat, copyist, coryphee, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dancer, dancing girl, dissembler, dissimulator, ecdysiast, echo, echoer, echoist, entertainer, exotic dancer, fake, faker, female impersonator, forger, fourflusher, fraud, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, hoofer, humbug, hypocrite, imitator, impostor, incognita, incognito, magician, malingerer, masker, masquerader, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, parrot, peeler, performer, phony, plagiarist, playactor, player, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser, poseur, prestidigitator, pretender, public entertainer, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, sheep, show girl, simulator, singer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, thespian, trouper, vaudevillian, vaudevillist

• impertinence, arrogance, audacity, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brass, brassiness, bravado, brazenfacedness, brazenness, bumptiousness, butting-in, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, cockiness, contempt, contemptuousness, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, despite, disassociation, disconnection, discourtesy, discreteness, disdain, disjunction, disjuncture, disregard, disrespect, disrespectfulness, dissociation, effrontery, face of brass, flippancy, forwardness, freshness, gall, hardihood, immateriality, impoliteness, impudence, inapplicability, inappositeness, incivility, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, inquisitiveness, insolence, intermeddling, intrusiveness, irrelation, irrelevance, meddlesomeness, meddling, nerve, obtrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, separateness, unconnectedness, unrelatedness

• impertinent, adrift, arrogant, audacious, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, biggety, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, busy, busybody, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, discourteous, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, extraneous, extrinsic, facy, flip, flippant, foreign, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, immaterial, impolite, impudent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inquisitive, insolent, interfering, intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, malapert, meddlesome, meddling, nervy, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nosy, not at issue, obtrusive, off the subject, offensive, officious, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, pert, presumptuous, prying, pushing, pushy, regardless of consequences, rude, sassy, saucy, self-appointed, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, snoopy, uncalled-for, uncivil, unessential, wise-ass

• imperturbable, balanced, bovine, collected, complacent, composed, cool, dispassionate, dull, even-tempered, fast, fiducial, firm, firm as Gibraltar, impassive, in equilibrium, inexcitable, inirritable, nonchalant, patient, predictable, reliable, secure, self-satisfied, smug, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, stoic, stolid, substantial, unaffected, undisturbable, unflappable, unflinching, unirritable, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate, unshakable, untouched, unwavering, well-balanced, without nerves

• impervious, Philistine, airtight, ballproof, beyond reach, bombproof, bulletproof, burglarproof, callous, calloused, case-hardened, closed forever to, closed to, corrosionproof, dampproof, fire-resisting, fireproof, flameproof, flinty, foolproof, hard, hardened, hardhearted, hermetic, holeproof, impassable, impenetrable, impermeable, impersuadable, impersuasible, impervious to, inaccessible, indurated, inflexible, insensitive, inured, leakproof, lost to, noiseproof, nonpuncturable, obstinate, out of reach, pachydermatous, proof, proof against, punctureproof, resistant, rustproof, shatterproof, shellproof, soundproof, steeled against, steely, stony, thick-skinned, tight, un-come-at-able, unaccessible, unamenable, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, undiscoverable, ungettable, unimpressionable, uninfluenceable, unmovable, unobtainable, unpassable, unperforable, unpersuadable, unpierceable, unpliable, unprocurable, unreachable, unreceptive, unresponsive, unsecurable, unsuggestible, unsusceptible, unswayable, unyielding, watertight, weatherproof

• impetigo, acne, acne vulgaris, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, eczema, elephantiasis, epithelioma, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hives, itch, jungle rot, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lupus, lupus vulgaris, miliaria, pemphigus, prickly heat, pruigo, pruritus, psora, ringworm, scabies, shingles, skin cancer, tetter

• impetration, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, address, aid prayer, appeal, application, asking, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, chaplet, collect, communion, contemplation, demand, desire, devotions, entreaty, expressed desire, grace, imploration, indent, intercession, invocation, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, prayer, prayer wheel, request, requisition, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving, wish

• impetuous, abrupt, accident-prone, active, acute, adrift, afloat, aggressive, alternating, amorphous, animated, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, ardent, breakneck, breathless, brisk, brittle, capricious, careless, chafing, changeable, changeful, corruptible, deciduous, desperate, desultory, deviable, devil-may-care, dizzy, dying, dynamic, eager, eccentric, edgy, electrifying, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, ephemeral, erratic, evanescent, excited, fading, fast and loose, fervid, fickle, fierce, fiery, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fly-by-night, flying, forceful, forcible, fragile, frail, freakish, fretful, fretting, fugacious, fugitive, full of pep, furious, giddy, go-go, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hearty, hopped-up, hotheaded, hurried, impassioned, impatient, impermanent, impulsive, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, incisive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insubstantial, intense, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, mad, mazy, mercurial, mettlesome, momentary, moody, mortal, mutable, nerve-shattering, nondurable, nonpermanent, offhand, on edge, overeager, overenthusiastic, overhasty, overzealous, panting, passing, passionate, peppy, perishable, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick, rambling, rash, reckless, restive, restless, robust, roving, rushing, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shocking, short-lived, shuffling, simmering, slap-bang, slapdash, smacking, snappy, spanking, spasmodic, speedy, spineless, spirited, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, squirming, squirmy, startling, stormy, strenuous, strong, sudden, surprising, swift, take-charge, take-over, tempestuous, temporal, temporary, tornadic, transient, transitive, transitory, trenchant, unaccountable, unanticipated, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undurable, uneasy, unenduring, unexpected, unfixed, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpatient, unplanned, unpredictable, unpredicted, unpremeditated, unquiet, unreflective, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unthinking, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vehement, vibrant, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, vigorous, violent, vivacious, vivid, volatile, volcanic, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wild, wishy-washy, zestful, zesty, zippy

• impetuously, a corps perdu, abruptly, bang, carelessly, dash, desperately, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hotfoot, hotheadedly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impulsively, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, like crazy, like mad, madly, of a sudden, on short notice, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, plop, plump, plunk, pop, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, quickly, ramble-scramble, rashly, recklessly, sharp, slam-bang, slap, slap-bang, slapdash, smack, startlingly, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, unawares, unexpectedly, wantonly, wildly, without notice, without warning

• impetus, acceleration, activity, animation, ardor, brio, briskness, catalyst, clout, compulsion, drive, driving force, elan, encouragement, energy, enthusiasm, getaway, glow, goad, gusto, impellent, impelling force, impetuosity, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitation, incitement, inspiration, irresistible force, joie de vivre, life, liveliness, lustiness, mettle, moment, momentum, motivation, motive power, perkiness, pertness, pickup, power, propulsion, push, quickening, robustness, speedup, spirit, spiritedness, spur, step-up, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus, thrust, vivacity, warmth, zest, zestfulness

• impiety, blasphemousness, blasphemy, desecration, godlessness, irreligion, profanation, profaneness, profanity, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness, ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, wickedness

• impinge, bang, bang into, barge in, break in, break in upon, brush, brush by, bump, bump into, burst in, butt in, cannon, caress, carom, carom into, charge in, clash, collide, come between, come in contact, come into collision, concuss, confront each other, contact, crack up, crash, crash in, crash into, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, crump, crunch, cut in, dash into, edge in, elbow in, encounter, encroach, entrench, fall foul of, foist in, foul, glance, graze, hit, hit against, horn in, hurt, hurtle, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, kiss, knock, knock against, meet, nudge, obtrude, osculate, percuss, press in, push in, put on, put upon, rub, run into, rush in, scrape, shave, sideswipe, skim, skirt, slam into, slink in, slip in, smack into, smash, smash in, smash into, smash up, sneak in, squeak by, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, strike, strike against, throng in, thrust in, touch, trench, trespass, whomp, work in, worm in

• impingement, appulse, attouchement, brunt, brush, bulldozing, bulling, bump, cannon, carambole, caress, carom, clash, collision, concussion, contact, contingence, crack-up, crash, crump, crunch, encounter, encroachment, entrance, entrenchment, glance, graze, hammering, impact, impingence, imposition, incursion, infiltration, influx, infringement, injection, inroad, insinuation, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, jar, jolt, kiss, mauling, meeting, nudge, obtrusion, onslaught, osculation, percussion, ramming, rub, shock, sideswipe, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, taction, tangency, tentative contact, thrusting, touch, touching, trespass, trespassing, unlawful entry, whomp

• impious, apostate, arch, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous, casual, coltish, contrary, devil-may-care, disobedient, elvish, fallen, fallen from grace, flippant, free and easy, fresh, frolicsome, froward, giddy, godless, iconoclastic, impish, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, mischievous, offhand, pert, perverse, pixieish, profanatory, profane, puckish, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, roguish, sacrilegious, saucy, scandalous, sinful, sportive, un-Christly, unangelic, unchristian, undevout, unduteous, undutiful, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unrighteous, unsaintly, waggish, wayward, wicked, wrongheaded

• impish, arch, devilish, elfish, elvish, foolish, full of mischief, high-spirited, knavish, mischief-loving, mischievous, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, roguish, scampish, scapegrace, sportive, trickish, tricksy, waggish

• implacable, adamant, adamantine, avenging, cast-iron, cruel, dour, firm, flinty, grim, grudgeful, hard, hard-core, immovable, immutable, impliable, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, merciless, mortal, pitiless, punitive, punitory, rancorous, relentless, retaliatory, revanchist, revengeful, rigid, rigorous, rock-ribbed, ruthless, steely, stern, stiff, unaffected, unalterable, unappeasable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompromising, unflinching, unforgiving, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unyielding, vengeful, vindicatory, vindictive

• implant, beat into, bed, brainwash, broadcast, bud, catechize, condition, confirm, deep-dye, define, dibble, disseminate, drag in, drill, edge in, embed, engraft, engrave, entrench, establish, etch, fit in, fix, foist in, forest, found, fudge in, graft, ground, imbue, imp, impact, implant in, impregnate, impress, imprint, inarch, inculcate, indoctrinate, infix, infuse, ingrain, inject, inject in, inlay, inoculate, inscribe, inseminate, insert, insert in, insinuate, insinuate in, inspire, instill, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce, introduce in, intrude, jam, leaven, lodge, lug in, pack, penetrate, permeate, pervade, plant, pot, print, program, put between, put in, reforest, reset, retimber, root, run in, sandwich, saturate, scatter seed, scion, seat, seed, seed down, seminate, set, set in, settle, smuggle in, sow, sow broadcast, squeeze in, stamp, stereotype, teach, tessellate, throw in, thrust in, transplant, wedge, wedge in, work in, worm in

• implantation, absorption and regurgitation, brainwashing, catechization, conditioning, confirmation, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, dictation, embedment, entrance, entrenchment, establishment, fixation, fixedness, fixity, fixture, graft, grafting, imbuement, impaction, impactment, impregnation, impression, inculcation, indoctrination, infixation, infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation, insertion, insinuation, instillation, instillment, interjection, interpolation, introduction, intromission, inveteracy, penetration, perfusion, reindoctrination, stabilization, tessellation, transplant, transplantation

• implanted, chronic, confirmed, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, esoteric, established, etched, fast, firmly established, fixed, graven, immanent, implicit, impressed, imprinted, inalienable, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inherent, inner, instilled, internal, intrinsic, inveterate, inward, inwrought, irreducible, irreversible, long-established, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, private, resident, rooted, secret, set, settled, settled in habit, stabilized, subjective, thorough, unalienable, unchallengeable, unquestionable, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled

• implausibility, bare possibility, credibility gap, doubtfulness, dubiousness, faint likelihood, improbability, inconceivability, incredibility, little expectation, poor possibility, poor prospect, questionableness, small chance, unbelievability, unbelievableness, unlikelihood, unreliability, untenableness

• implausible, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, beyond belief, debatable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, fishy, flimsy, hard of belief, hard to believe, hardly possible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, more than doubtful, not deserving belief, open to doubt, open to suspicion, passing belief, preposterous, problematic, puzzling, questionable, ridiculous, staggering belief, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unlikely, unpromising, unreasonable, unsubstantial, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weak

• implement, Charlie McCarthy, Federal, abide by, accomplish, achieve, actualize, adhere to, administer, agent, amanuensis, ancilla, apparatus, appliance, baggage agent, bring about, bring off, bring to effect, bring to pass, business agent, carry into effect, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, cause, claim agent, clerk, come through, come through with, commercial agent, commission agent, complete, consignee, contraption, contrivance, creature, customer agent, device, discharge, dummy, dupe, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, factor, fed, federal agent, fill out, freight agent, fulfill, functionary, gadget, general agent, get through, gimcrack, gimmick, gizmo, go through, go-between, hand tool, handmaid, handmaiden, honor, instrument, insurance agent, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, invoke, land agent, law agent, lever, literary agent, loan agent, make, make out, materialize, means, mechanical device, mechanism, mediator, medium, midwife, minion, news agent, observe, official, organ, parliamentary agent, passenger agent, pawn, perform, plaything, power tool, precision tool, press agent, promulgate, prosecute, pull off, puppet, purchasing agent, put across, put in force, put in practice, put into effect, put into practice, put over, put through, real estate agent, realize, render, sales agent, secretary, servant, slave, special agent, speed tool, station agent, steward, stooge, theatrical agent, ticket agent, tool, toy, transact, translate into action, travel agent, utensil, vehicle, walking delegate, work out

• implementation, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, administration, attainment, carrying out, commission, completion, conduct, consummation, discharge, dispatch, effectuation, enactment, execution, fait accompli, fruition, fulfillment, handling, management, mission accomplished, performance, perpetration, production, realization, success, transaction

• implicate, absorb, affect, allegorize, allude to, assail, associate, assume, attack, ball up, bring, bring to mind, call for, catch up in, censure, complicate, comprise, concern, confound, confuse, connect, connote, contain, criminate, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, draw in, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, engage, enmesh, ensnare, entail, entangle, entrap, foul up, hint, imply, import, impugn, include, incriminate, inculpate, infer, insinuate, interest, intimate, involve, knot, lead to, louse up, mean, mean to say, mess up, mire, mix up, muck up, muddle, perplex, point indirectly to, presume, presuppose, ramify, ravel, require, screw up, snarl, snarl up, subsume, suck into, suggest, suppose, suspect, take, take for granted, take in, tangle

• implicated, Byzantine, a party to, accessory, accused, affected, affiliate, affiliated, allied, arraignable, arraigned, associate, associated, assumed, at fault, balled up, blamed, bound, bracketed, censurable, charged, cited, collateral, complex, complicated, concerned, confounded, confused, conjugate, connected, convoluted, correlated, coupled, crabbed, criminal, culpable, daedal, denounced, devious, elaborate, embrangled, engaged, entangled, faulty, fouled up, guilty, hinted, impeachable, impeached, implied, impugned, in complicity, included, incriminated, inculpated, indicated, indictable, indicted, inferred, interested, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimated, intricate, involuted, involved, joined, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, linked, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meant, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, of that ilk, of that kind, parallel, partaking, participant, participating, participative, participatory, peccant, perplexed, presumed, presupposed, ramified, related, reprehensible, reproachable, reproached, reprovable, roundabout, screwed up, sharing, snarled, spliced, subtle, suggested, supposed, tangled, tangly, tasked, taxed, tied, to blame, twinned, twisted, under attack, under fire, wed, wedded, yoked

• implication, absorption, accusal, accusation, accusing, affective meaning, allegation, allegement, allegory, allusion, arcane meaning, arraignability, arraignableness, arraignment, assault, association, assumption, attack, bearing, bill of particulars, blame, blameworthiness, bloody hands, bringing of charges, bringing to book, broad hint, burden, censurability, censurableness, censure, charge, chargeability, citation, clue, coloration, coloring, complaint, complicity, conclusion, connection, connotation, consequence, count, criminality, cue, culpability, delation, denotation, denouncement, denunciation, dirty hands, drift, effect, embarrassment, engagement, enmeshment, entailment, entanglement, essence, extension, force, gentle hint, gesture, gist, glimmer, glimmering, grammatical meaning, guilt, guiltiness, guilty conscience, hint, idea, impact, impeachability, impeachableness, impeachment, implied meaning, import, impugnment, imputation, inclusion, incrimination, inculpation, index, indication, indictability, indictableness, indictment, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intension, intimation, involution, involvement, ironic suggestion, kick, lawsuit, laying of charges, lexical meaning, literal meaning, look, meaning, metaphorical sense, nod, nuance, nudge, occult meaning, onus, overtone, peccancy, pertinence, pith, plaint, point, practical consequence, presumption, presupposition, prompt, prosecution, purport, range of meaning, real meaning, red-handedness, reference, referent, relation, relevance, reprehensibility, reproach, reproachableness, reprovability, reprovableness, scent, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, sign, signal, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, span of meaning, spirit, spoor, structural meaning, subsense, subsidiary sense, substance, subsumption, suggestion, suit, sum, sum and substance, supposition, suspicion, symbolic meaning, symbolism, symptom, taxing, telltale, tenor, tinge, totality of associations, touch, track, transferred meaning, true bill, unadorned meaning, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, unspoken accusation, value, veiled accusation, whisper, wink

• implicative, allusive, allusory, connotative, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicational, implicatory, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, inferential, insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory, ironic, meaningful, metaphorical, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, referential, representative, semantic, semiotic, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, typical

• implicit, absolute, adducible, admissible, admitting no exception, all-out, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, categorical, certain, circumstantial, clear, complete, conclusive, constructive, convincing, cumulative, damning, decided, decisive, deep-seated, definite, definitive, determinate, determinative, documentary, documented, downright, entire, esoteric, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, explicit, express, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, fixed, flat, flat-out, founded on, full, genuine, global, grounded on, hearsay, immanent, implanted, implied, inalienable, inappealable, inarticulate, incontrovertible, indicative, indirect, indisputable, indwelling, inferable, inferential, inferred, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, internal, intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, irrefutable, irresistible, latent, material, nuncupative, out-and-out, outright, overwhelming, peremptory, perfect, positive, practical, presumptive, private, probative, real, reliable, resident, round, secret, sheer, significant, straight, straight-out, subjective, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, tacit, taken for granted, telling, total, unalienable, unalloyed, unchallengeable, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, undeclared, understood, undiluted, undoubting, unequivocal, unexpressed, unhampered, unhesitating, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unsaid, unspoken, unuttered, unwaivable, utter, valid, virtual, weighty, whole, wholehearted, without exception, without reserve, wordless

• implore, adjure, appeal, appeal to, beg, beseech, call for help, call on, call upon, clamor for, commune with God, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, entreat, give thanks, impetrate, importune, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, make supplication, obtest, offer a prayer, petition, plead, plead for, pray, pray over, recite the rosary, return thanks, run to, say grace, supplicate

• imploring, adjuration, adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appeal, appealing, begging, beseeching, beseechment, bid, call, clamor, cry, devotional, devout, entreating, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, in the dust, invocation, invocatory plea, obsecration, obtestation, on bended knee, plea, pleading, prayer, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, rogation, solemn, suit, suppliant, supplicant, supplication, supplicatory, venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping

• imply, accuse, adumbrate, advert to, affect, allege, allegorize, allude to, approve, argue, arraign, article, assume, attest, be construed as, bespeak, betoken, bid fair, book, breathe, bring, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, bring to mind, call for, charge, cite, complain, comprise, connote, contain, demonstrate, denote, denounce, denunciate, display, drop a hint, entail, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, fasten on, fasten upon, finger, furnish evidence, give a hint, give indication of, give prospect of, give the cue, glance at, go to show, hang something on, hint, hint at, hold out hope, illustrate, impeach, implicate, import, impute, include, indicate, indict, infer, inform against, inform on, insinuate, intimate, involve, lay charges, lead to, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, make fair promise, make likely, manifest, mark, mean, mean to say, pin on, point indirectly to, point to, prefer charges, press charges, presume, presuppose, promise, prompt, put on report, raise expectation, refer to, report, reproach, require, set forth, show, show signs of, signal, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, spell, stand fair to, stand for, subsume, suggest, suppose, symbolize, symptomatize, take, take for granted, take in, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, tell, tend to show, twit

• impolite, Gothic, Neanderthal, animal, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, coarse, crude, discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, inaffable, indecorous, indelicate, insolent, noncivilized, outlandish, pert, primitive, rough-and-ready, rude, saucy, savage, troglodytic, unaccommodating, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncomplaisant, uncourteous, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungallant, ungentlemanly, ungracious, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished, unpolite, unrefined, untamed, vulgar, wild

• impoliteness, bad manners, caddishness, coarseness, crudeness, discourteousness, discourtesy, gross behavior, grossness, ill breeding, ill manners, incivility, inconsiderateness, insensitivity, inurbanity, loutishness, mannerlessness, offensiveness, rudeness, tactlessness, uncourtliness, ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungraciousness, unmannerliness, unpoliteness, unsolicitousness, vulgarity

• impolitic, bad, botched, brash, bungled, butchered, fumbled, futile, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-gauged, ill-judged, ill-managed, ill-suited, ill-timed, improper, imprudent, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, injudicious, inopportune, insensate, irrational, mal a propos, maladroit, malapropos, mindless, misadvised, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, myopic, negligent, out of place, reasonless, reckless, senseless, shortsighted, spoiled, thoughtless, unadvised, unbefitting, unconsidered, undesirable, undiplomatic, undiscerning, unfit, unfitting, unforeseeing, unfortunate, unhappy, unmeet, unprofitable, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseasonable, unseeing, unseemly, unsensible, unsound, unsuitable, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, untimely, unwise, witless, wrong

• imponderable, airy, asomatous, astral, atomic, bodiless, corpuscular, decarnate, decarnated, discarnate, disembodied, embryonic, ethereal, evanescent, extramundane, germinal, ghostly, granular, immaterial, impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incorporate, incorporeal, indiscernible, inestimable, infinitesimal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, otherworldly, phantom, psychic, shadowy, spiritual, subatomic, subtle, supernatural, tenuous, thin, transmundane, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unmeasurable, unobservable, unperceivable, unphysical, unseeable, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unweighable, unworldly, weightless

• import, accent, acceptation, access, add up to, admission, affective meaning, allegorize, allegory, allude to, allusion, amount to something, arcane meaning, argue, assign, assume, assumption, be construed as, be featured, be prominent, be somebody, be something, bearing, bespeak, betoken, breathe, bring in, bring to mind, carry over, carry weight, coloration, coloring, communicate, communication, concern, concernment, conduction, connotation, connote, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, consign, construction, contagion, convection, convey, count, cut ice, cut some ice, deliver, delivery, denotation, denote, deport, deportation, design, diapedesis, diffuse, diffusion, disseminate, dissemination, drift, effect, emphasis, entail, entrance, entree, entry, essence, excellence, expel, export, exportation, express, expulsion, extension, extradite, extradition, force, get top billing, gist, grammatical meaning, hand forward, hand on, hand over, high order, high rank, hint, idea, impact, impart, implicate, implication, implied meaning, imply, importance, importation, importing, income, incoming, indicate, infer, inference, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, innuendo, input, insertion, insinuate, insinuation, intake, intend, intendment, intension, intent, intention, interchange, interest, interpenetration, interpretation, intimate, intimation, introduce, introduction, introgression, intrusion, involve, ironic suggestion, leakage, lexical meaning, literal meaning, magnitude, make over, mark, materiality, matter, mean, mean to say, meaning, merit, message, metaphorical sense, metastasis, metastasize, metathesis, metathesize, metempsychosis, migration, moment, momentousness, mutual transfer, note, nuance, object, objective, occult meaning, osmosis, overtone, paramountcy, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, passage, passing over, penetration, percolation, perfuse, perfusion, pertinence, pith, point, point indirectly to, practical consequence, precedence, preeminence, presume, presumption, presuppose, presupposition, primacy, priority, purport, purpose, range of meaning, real meaning, reception, refer to, reference, referent, relation, relay, relevance, scope, seepage, self-importance, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, significance, significancy, signification, significatum, signifie, signify, span of meaning, spell, spirit, spread, spreading, stand for, stand out, star, stress, structural meaning, subsense, subsidiary sense, substance, suggest, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, superiority, suppose, supposition, supremacy, switch, symbolic meaning, symbolism, symbolize, take for granted, tell, tenor, thrust, tinge, totality of associations, touch, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transfer property, transference, transferred meaning, transfuse, transfusion, transit, transition, translate, translation, translocate, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmit, transmittal, transmittance, transplace, transplacement, transplant, transplantation, transposal, transpose, transposition, travel, turn over, unadorned meaning, undercurrent, undermeaning, understanding, undertone, value, weigh, weight, weightiness, worth

• importance, account, ascendancy, authority, charisma, charm, clout, concern, consequence, conspicuousness, control, credit, distinction, dominance, domination, effect, elevation, eminence, enchantment, esteem, exaltation, excellence, favor, force, good feeling, grandeur, gravity, greatness, high mightiness, hold, import, incidental power, influence, influentiality, influentialness, insinuation, leadership, leverage, loftiness, magnetism, magnitude, mark, mastery, matter, moment, momentousness, nobility, notability, note, noteworthiness, outstandingness, personality, persuasion, pith, position, potency, power, precedence, predominance, preponderance, pressure, prestige, priority, prominence, purchase, rank, reign, reputation, repute, rule, salience, say, seniority, seriousness, significance, signification, standing, stature, status, suasion, sublimity, substance, subtle influence, suggestion, supereminence, supremacy, sway, upper hand, value, weight, weightiness, whip hand, worth, worthiness

• important person, Establishment, VIP, baron, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, brass, brass hat, celebrity, chief, constellation, cynosure, dean, dignitary, dignity, doyen, doyenne, elder, father, figure, folk hero, galaxy, great man, hero, heroine, high priest, idol, immortal, interests, kingfish, kingpin, leader, lion, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, man of mark, master, master spirit, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable, panjandrum, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, principal, public figure, ruling circle, sachem, senior, social lion, somebody, something, star, superior, superstar, the great, the top, top brass, top dog, top people, tycoon, very important person, worthy

• important, absolute, arrogant, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, bloated, charismatic, charming, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, conspicuous, controlling, critical, distinctive, distinguished, dominant, double-barreled, duly constituted, earthshaking, effective, effectual, efficacious, eminent, empowered, enchanting, essential, estimable, ex officio, exceptional, famous, first-class, first-rate, foremost, formidable, front-page, governing, grand, grave, great, heavyweight, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high-powered, high-ranking, imperative, impressive, in the limelight, influential, leading, magisterial, magnetic, major, marked, material, meaningful, memorable, mighty, momentous, monocratic, name, notable, noted, noteworthy, noticeable, official, outstanding, personable, persuasive, pontifical, portentous, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, puffy, puissant, ranking, remarkable, reputable, respected, ruling, salient, self-important, senior, signal, significant, strong, stuffy, suasive, substantial, superior, supreme, telling, to the front, top-level, top-notch, totalitarian, unusual, urgent, valuable, vital, weighty, winning, world-shaking, worthwhile, worthy

• importunate, aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, cajoling, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, coaxing, compulsory, controlled, crying, demanding, disturbing, draining, dunning, exacting, exasperating, exigent, exorbitant, extortionate, firm-minded, forward, galling, grasping, harassing, imperative, importune, independent, insistent, instant, irking, irksome, irritating, loud, mandatory, nagging, necessary, necessitous, obligatory, persistent, pertinacious, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, pressing, provoking, pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-possessed, self-restrained, strong-minded, strong-willed, taxing, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, urgent, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wheedling, without choice, worrisome, worrying

• importune, advocate, aggravating, annoying, appeal, apply pressure, approach, beg, beseech, beset, besiege, blandish, bothering, bothersome, bug, buttonhole, cajole, call on, call upon, coax, crave, disturbing, dun, entreat, exasperating, exert pressure, exhort, galling, harassing, high-pressure, implore, importunate, insist, insist upon, invoke, irking, irksome, irritating, jawbone, lobby, make a pass, make advances, make an overture, nag, nag at, overture, pesky, pester, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plague, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, plead, plead with, ply, pray, press, pressure, proposition, provoking, push, recommend, soft-soap, solicit, supplicate, sweet-talk, tease, teasing, throw a pass, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, urge, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wheedle, work on, worrisome, worrying

• importunity, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, demandingness, dunning, exigency, importunacy, importunateness, insistence, nagging, persistence, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pestering, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressingness, pressure, teasing, urgency, urging, wheedling

• impose upon, abuse, abuse a privilege, barge in, bleed, bleed white, bother, break in, break in upon, burden with, burst in, butt in, charge, charge in, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, cut in, deceive, demand, disaccommodate, disadvantage, discommode, disoblige, drain, edge in, elbow in, encroach, encroach upon, enjoin, entrench, exact, exploit, fasten upon, foist in, foist on, freight with, harm, horn in, ill-use, impinge, impose, impose on, incommode, inconvenience, infiltrate, inflict on, inflict upon, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, lay, lay on, levy, make free with, make use of, manipulate, milk, misuse, obtrude, obtrude upon, overstep, pass off on, pass the buck, place, play on, press in, presume on, presume upon, push in, put, put across, put down, put on, put out, put over, put to inconvenience, put to trouble, put upon, rush in, saddle with, set, shift the blame, shift the responsibility, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, stroke, subject to, suck dry, take a liberty, take advantage of, take liberties, task, tax, throng in, thrust in, trench, trespass, trouble, use, use ill, weight down with, work in, work on, work upon, worm in, yoke with

• impose, abuse, administer the Eucharist, anoint, appoint, ask, ask for, assess, authorize, barge in, blackmail, break in, break in upon, brook no denial, burden, burden with, burst in, butt in, call for, challenge, charge, charge for, charge in, chrism, claim, clamor for, come between, command, compel, compose, confirm, constrain, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, cry for, cut in, decree, demand, dictate, do duty, drag in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, enjoin, entrench, exact, exploit, extort, fasten upon, fob, foist, foist in, force, freight with, horn in, impinge, impose on, impose upon, indent, infiltrate, inflict, inflict on, inflict upon, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, interrupt, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, issue an ultimatum, justify, lade, lay, lay down, lay hands on, lay on, leave no option, levy, make a demand, make dutiable, make free, make obligatory, make up, minister, misuse, necessitate, oblige, obtrude, officiate, ordain, order, order up, overrun, perform a rite, perform service, pi, pi a form, place, place an order, prescribe, press in, presume, pro rata, prorate, push in, put, put down, put in requisition, put on, put upon, require, requisition, rush in, saddle, saddle with, screw, set, set in print, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, stick for, storm in, subject to, take advantage of, take liberties, take no denial, task, tax, throng in, thrust in, tithe, trench, trespass, use, visit, warn, weight down with, wish, work in, worm in, wreak, wreck, yoke with

• imposed, absolute, binding, compulsory, conclusive, decisive, decretory, dictated, entailed, final, hard-and-fast, imperative, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must, obligatory, peremptory, prescript, prescriptive, required, ultimate, without appeal

• imposing, Babylonian, Corinthian, adipose, aristocratic, arty, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, baronial, beefy, big, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, commanding, corpulent, courtly, deluxe, dignified, distended, dumpy, earnest, effective, elaborate, elegant, extravagant, fancy, fat, fatal, fateful, fattish, fine, fleshy, formidable, full, glorious, grand, grandiose, grave, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, high, hippy, imperial, impressive, kingly, lordly, lusty, luxurious, magisterial, magnificent, majestic, meaty, moving, noble, obese, overblown, overweight, palatial, paunchy, plump, plush, podgy, portentous, portly, posh, potbellied, princely, proud, pudgy, puffy, pursy, queenly, regal, ritzy, roly-poly, rotund, royal, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, sounding, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stately, statuesque, stocky, stout, strapping, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, venerable, weighty, well-fed, worthy

• imposition, Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, application, applying, assessment, assumption, atrocity, ballot-box stuffing, blackmail, bunco, burden, burthen, call, call for, cardsharping, cargo, cess, charge, cheat, cheating, claim, cold-type typesetting, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, conscience money, contribution, cozenage, cross, cumbrance, deadweight, demand, demand for, diddle, diddling, difficulty, direct tax, disadvantage, dishonesty, disservice, dodge, draft, drain, dummy, duty, embarrassment, encroachment, encumbrance, enforcement, enforcing, entrance, entrenchment, exaction, extortion, extortionate demand, familiarity, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, freight, furniture, galley chase, gerrymandering, graduated taxation, graft, great wrong, grievance, grift, gross injustice, gyp, gyp joint, hamper, handicap, heavy demand, hot-metal typesetting, hubris, illicit business, impediment, impedimenta, impingement, impost, imposture, inconvenience, incursion, indent, indirect tax, infiltration, inflicting, infliction, influx, infringement, injection, injury, injustice, inroad, insinuation, insistent demand, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, introduction, intrusion, invasion, irruption, joint return, justification, lawlessness, laying on, layout, levy, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, line of type, load, lumber, miscarriage of justice, misuse, nonnegotiable demand, notice, obtrusion, onus, order, outrage, pack, penalty, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, placement, placing, presumption, presumptuousness, progressive tax, promulgation, quoin, racket, raw deal, requirement, requisition, rush, rush order, scam, separate returns, setting, single tax, slug, supertax, surtax, swindle, tax, tax base, tax dodging, tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure, tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation, taxing, tithe, toll, trespass, trespassing, tribute, trouble, typesetting, typesetting machine, ultimatum, undue liberty, unlawful entry, warning, weight, white elephant, withholding tax, wrong

• impossible, I refuse, I will not, absurd, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, antic, barred, by no means, cardinal, closed-out, contrary to reason, count me out, crazy, cureless, decimal, differential, digital, even, exceptionable, excluded, exponential, fanciful, fantastic, farcical, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, hopeless, illogical, imaginary, immedicable, impair, impracticable, impractical, inadmissible, include me out, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, incurable, indefensible, infeasible, infinite, integral, intolerable, irrational, irremediable, irreparable, logarithmic, logically impossible, logometric, ludicrous, negative, no, no go, not likely, not possible, nothing doing, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, objectionable, odd, ordinal, outlandish, outrageous, oxymoronic, pair, paradoxical, positive, possible, preposterous, prime, prohibited, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, ridiculous, ruled-out, self-contradictory, submultiple, surd, transcendental, unacceptable, unaccountable, unachievable, unattainable, unbelievable, uncorrectable, undesirable, unexpected, unfeasible, unimaginable, unobtainable, unrealizable, unreasonable, unsolvable, unsuitable, untenable, unthinkable, unworkable, weird

• impost, assessment, blackmail, call, call for, cess, claim, conscience money, contribution, demand, demand for, direct tax, draft, drain, duty, exaction, extortion, extortionate demand, graduated taxation, heavy demand, imposition, indent, indirect tax, insistent demand, joint return, levy, nonnegotiable demand, notice, order, progressive tax, requirement, requisition, rush, rush order, separate returns, single tax, supertax, surtax, tariff, tax, tax base, tax dodging, tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure, tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation, taxing, tithe, toll, tribute, ultimatum, warning, withholding tax

• impostor, ape, beguiler, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, clinquant, con man, confidence man, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, cuckoo, deceiver, dissembler, dissimulator, dummy, echo, echoer, echoist, fake, fakement, faker, flimflam man, forger, forgery, fourflusher, frame-up, fraud, hoax, humbug, hypocrite, imitation, imitator, impersonator, imposter, junk, malingerer, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, misleader, mock, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, paste, pettifogger, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser, poseur, pretender, put-on, put-up job, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, rip-off, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, shark, sheep, shoddy, shyster, simulacrum, simulator, swindle, swindler, tinsel, trickster, whited sepulcher

• imposture, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, ballot-box stuffing, bluff, bluffing, bunco, cardsharping, charlatanism, charlatanry, cheat, cheating, color, coloring, copy, copying, counterfeit, counterfeiting, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, diddle, diddling, disguise, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dodge, emulation, fabrication, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, following, forgery, four-flushing, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, front, gambit, gerrymandering, gilt, gloss, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hit-off, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, illicit business, imitation, impersonation, imposition, impression, make-believe, maneuver, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mirroring, onomatopoeia, ostentation, outward show, parody, phony, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, ploy, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, put-on, quackery, quackishness, quackism, racket, repetition, representation, ruse, scam, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, sleight, speciousness, spoof, swindle, takeoff, varnish, wile, window dressing

• impotence, absurdity, adynamia, aimlessness, anemia, aridity, atony, barrenness, birth control, blah feeling, bloodlessness, bootlessness, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness, carnality, coldness, contraception, cowardice, dearth, debilitation, debility, dry womb, dryness, dullness, easiness, easygoingness, emptiness, enervation, etiolation, faintness, family planning, famine, fatigue, fatuity, fecklessness, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, flesh, fleshliness, forcelessness, frailty, frigidity, fruitlessness, futility, helplessness, hollowness, impotency, imprecision, inadequacy, inanity, incompetence, indifference, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, ineptness, infecundity, infertility, lack of force, lack of influence, lack of magnetism, lack of personality, lack of power, languishment, languor, lassitude, laxity, laxness, leniency, libido, listlessness, looseness, loosening, love, lovemaking, marriage, meaninglessness, negligence, no say, nugacity, otiosity, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, permissiveness, planned parenthood, pointlessness, potency, powerlessness, profitlessness, prostration, purposelessness, rat race, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, sensuality, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, slackness, sloppiness, sluggishness, softness, sterileness, sterility, strengthlessness, the absurd, triviality, unauthoritativeness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, uninfluentiality, unpersuasiveness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unrestraint, valuelessness, vanity, vicious circle, voluptuousness, weakliness, weakness, weariness, withered loins, worthlessness

• impotent, acarpous, aimless, anemic, arid, asexual, asthenic, barren, blank cartridge, bloodless, careless, castrated, castrato, celibate, chicken, childless, cold, cowardly, crippled, debilitated, desert, desolate, disabled, drained, dried-up, drooping, droopy, dry, dud, dull, easy, easygoing, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, eunuch, eunuchized, exhausted, faint, faintish, fallow, featherweight, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, forceless, frail, frigid, fruitless, frustrated, gaunt, gelded, gelding, gone, gutless, helpless, imbecile, imprecise, inadequate, incompetent, indifferent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, infecund, infertile, infirm, invalid, invertebrate, issueless, jejune, languid, languorous, lax, leached, lenient, lightweight, limber, limp, listless, loose, lustless, marrowless, meaningless, menopausal, negligent, nerveless, neuter, neutral, no go, no-account, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, of no account, of no use, overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, pithless, pointless, pooped, powerless, purposeless, relaxed, remiss, rubbery, sapless, sexless, sine prole, sinewless, slack, slipshod, sloppy, soft, spineless, sterile, strengthless, sucked dry, superfluous, teemless, unauthoritative, unavailing, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unhardened, unnerved, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unrestrained, unsexed, unsexual, unsown, unstrung, untilled, useless, virgin, waste, wasted, weak, weakling, weakly, without any weight, without issue

• impound, annex, attach, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, cage, chamber, check, cloister, close in, collectivize, commandeer, communalize, communize, compass, confine, confiscate, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, crib, detain, distrain, encage, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, expropriate, fence in, garnish, hedge in, hem in, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, house in, immure, impress, imprison, incarcerate, include, inhibit, jail, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, leaguer, levy, mew, mew up, nationalize, pen, pen in, pen up, pocket, pound, press, quarantine, rail in, replevin, replevy, restrain, restrict, seal up, sequester, sequestrate, shackle, shrine, shut in, shut up, socialize, stable, surround, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

• impoverish, ablate, absorb, assimilate, bankrupt, beggar, bleed, bleed white, break, burn up, bust, consume, denude, deplete, deplume, despoil, digest, displume, divest, drain, drain of resources, draw, draw down, dry, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off, flay, fleece, fold up, gobble, gobble up, ingest, milk, pauper, pauperize, pick clean, pluck, reduce, ruin, scuttle, shear, sink, skin, spend, squander, strip, strip bare, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, use up, waste away, wear away

• impoverished, Lenten, Spartan, ablated, abstemious, ascetic, austere, badly off, bankrupt, bare-handed, barren, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, burnt up, consumed, denuded, depleted, deprived, desolate, destitute, disadvantaged, dissipated, drained, dwarfed, dwarfish, eaten up, effete, empty, empty-handed, eroded, exhausted, exiguous, famished, finished, flat broke, fleeced, frugal, ghettoized, gone, half-starved, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impecunious, in distress, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, insolvent, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, mendicant, miserly, narrow, necessitous, needy, niggardly, on relief, on short commons, out at elbows, paltry, parsimonious, pauperized, penurious, pinched, poor, poverty-stricken, puny, ruined, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, short, shorthanded, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, spent, starvation, starved, starveling, starving, stingy, stinted, stone-broke, straitened, strapped, stripped, stunted, subsistence, thin, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, underprivileged, unfed, unnourishing, unnutritious, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, up against it, used up, wasted, watered, watery, wiped out, worn away, worn-out

• impracticable, awkward, disadvantageous, impossible, impractical, inapplicable, inconvenient, infeasible, nonfunctional, troublesome, unacceptable, unachievable, unattainable, undesirable, unfeasible, unfit, unrealizable, unsatisfactory, unserviceable, unsuitable, unusable, unworkable, useless

• impractical, abstract, academic, airy, armchair, autistic, awkward, beyond one, bulky, clumsy, conjectural, contrary, crosswise, cumbersome, dereistic, hulking, hulky, hypothetic, ideal, idealistic, impracticable, in the clouds, inconvenient, ineffective, ineffectual, infeasible, inoperable, insuperable, insurmountable, moot, nonfunctional, nonrealistic, notional, otherworldly, perverse, poetic, ponderous, postulatory, quixotic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, speculative, starry, starry-eyed, storybook, theoretical, too much for, transcendental, transmundane, unachievable, unattainable, unavailing, uncompassable, undoable, uneffectible, unfeasible, unhandy, unmanageable, unnegotiable, unperformable, unpractical, unrealistic, unrealizable, unserviceable, unsurmountable, unusable, unwieldy, unworkable, useless, visionary, wild, wish-fulfilling

• impracticality, autism, autistic thinking, awkwardness, bulkiness, clumsiness, cumbersomeness, dereism, dereistic thinking, dreamery, flight of fancy, hulkiness, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, imaginative exercise, impracticability, inconvenience, inoperability, insuperability, play of fancy, ponderousness, quixotism, quixotry, romance, romanticism, uncompassability, unhandiness, unmanageability, unpracticability, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, unrealizability, unwieldiness, unworkability, utopianism, visionariness, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking

• imprecation, adjuration, anathema, appeal, application, ban, beseechment, bid, blasphemy, call, clamor, commination, cry, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, entreaty, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulmination, hex, imploration, imploring, invocation, invocatory plea, malediction, malison, malocchio, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, plea, prayer, profanity, proscription, rogation, suit, supplication, swearing, thundering, whammy

• imprecatory, Rabelaisian, abusive, blasphemous, calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, foul, fulminatory, maledictory, obscene, profane, raw, ribald, risque, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, vile, vituperative

• imprecise, adulterated, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphous, approximate, approximative, barbarous, blemished, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, careless, chance, chancy, chaotic, cloudy, confused, damaged, defective, deficient, disordered, easy, easygoing, erroneous, fallible, faulty, foggy, found wanting, fuzzy, general, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immature, impaired, imperfect, impotent, improper, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, inchoate, incoherent, incomplete, incorrect, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indifferent, indistinct, inexact, inexplicit, infelicitous, lacking, lax, lenient, loose, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, negligent, nonspecific, not perfect, obscure, off, orderless, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true, overindulgent, overpermissive, partial, patchy, permissive, random, relaxed, remiss, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, short, sketchy, slack, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, soft, solecistic, stochastic, sweeping, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undeveloped, uneven, unfactual, unfinished, ungrammatic, unperfected, unplain, unprecise, unrestrained, unrigorous, unsound, unspecified, unthorough, vague, veiled, wanting, weak, woolly, wrong

• impregnable, deathless, defended, guarded, immortal, impenetrable, imperishable, incontestable, incorruptible, indelible, indestructible, indomitable, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, insuperable, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, irresistible, mighty, nonperishable, overpowering, overwhelming, protected, quenchless, resistless, safe, safeguarded, secure, shielded, unassailable, unbeatable, unconquerable, undampable, undefeatable, undestroyable, undying, unquenchable, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unyielding

• impregnate, bathe, beat into, besprinkle, brainwash, breathe, brew, catechize, charge, color, condition, cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize, decoct, douche, dredge, drench, dress, drouk, dye, enrich, entincture, fatten, fecundate, fecundify, fertilize, fill, flavor, flush, fructify, get with child, get with young, imbrue, imbue, implant, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infiltrate, infix, infuse, inject, inoculate, inseminate, instill, interpenetrate, lave, leach, leaven, lixiviate, macerate, manure, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, pollen, pollinate, pollinize, program, prolificate, rinse, saturate, season, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, spermatize, steep, suffuse, temper, tincture, tinge, transfuse, wash, waterlog

• impregnation, absorption and regurgitation, artificial insemination, brainwashing, brewing, catechization, conditioning, conjugation, cross-fertilization, cross-pollination, decoction, dictation, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking, enrichment, fecundation, fertilization, getting with child, heterogamy, imbruement, imbuement, implantation, impression, inculcation, indoctrination, infiltration, infixation, infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation, insemination, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, isogamy, leaching, lixiviation, maceration, marination, orthogamy, penetration, percolation, permeation, pervasion, pollination, pollinization, pulping, reindoctrination, saturation, seething, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing, steeping, suffusion, zygosis

• impresario, MC, administrator, agent, auteur, ballyhoo man, barker, callboy, conductor, costume designer, costumer, costumier, deputy, directeur, director, emcee, equestrian director, exhibitor, governor, intendant, makeup man, manager, master of ceremonies, playreader, producer, prompter, rector, responsible person, ringmaster, scenewright, set designer, showman, spieler, stage director, stage manager, supercargo, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, usher, usherer, usherette

• impress, Ditto copy, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, abduce, abduct, affect, alveolation, alveolus, annex, aquatint, aroma, arrest the thoughts, attach, attribute, autolithograph, backlash, backwash, badge, beat into, bed, blaze a trail, blemish, block, block print, blotch, boss, brainwash, brand, bring home to, bring into play, bring out, bump, cachet, call up, carry, carry away, carry off, cast, catch the thoughts, catechize, chalk, chalk up, character, characteristic, check, check off, chromolithograph, cicatrize, clout, collectivize, colophon, color print, come home to, commandeer, communalize, communize, concavity, condition, configuration, confirm, confiscate, conscript, contact print, convert to use, convexity, copperplate, copperplate print, crayon engraving, crimp, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dapple, dash, deep-dye, define, delimit, demarcate, dent, depress, detach, detach for service, differentia, differential, dimple, dint, discolor, distinctive feature, distrain, dot, draft, drive, earmark, electrify, embed, emboss, embossment, emphasize, engraft, engrave, engravement, engraving, enlargement, enlist, enlist into service, enroll, enthuse, entrench, establish, etch, etching, excite, excrescence, expropriate, fall back upon, feature, figure, fingerprint, fix, flavor, fleck, footmark, footprint, footstep, force, fossil footprint, found, freckle, furrow, galvanize, garnish, gash, get, get out, gouge, grab, graphotype, grave, ground, gust, hallmark, hammer, hatch, have recourse to, hectograph, hectograph copy, hit, hit the mark, hold for ransom, honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbue, impact, implant, impound, impregnate, impress forcibly, impression, imprint, inculcate, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, index, individualism, indoctrinate, induct, infix, influence, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, inscribe, inspire, instill, issue, jam, join, keynote, kidnap, letterpress, levy, line, lineaments, linoleum-block print, list, lithograph, lodge, look to, lump, mackle, make a mark, make an impression, mannerism, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mezzotint, mimeograph, mimeograph copy, mobilize, mold, mottle, move, multigraph, muster, muster in, nationalize, nature, negative, nick, notch, odor, offcut, offprint, offset, overprint, pack, pad, particularity, paw print, pawmark, peculiarity, pencil, pepper, persuade, photocopy, photograph, photostatic copy, pimple, pique, pit, plant, pock, pockmark, point, positive, pound, press, press in, prick, print, program, proof, property, prove, provoke, publish, pug, pugmark, pull, pull a proof, punch, punch in, punctuate, puncture, put in requisition, put out, put to bed, put to press, quality, quirk, raise, reach, reaction, recess, recoil, recruit, recur to, refer to, reflex, reissue, repercussion, replevin, replevy, reprint, resort to, response, revert to, riddle, rock, root, rubber-block print, run, run away with, run off, savor, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, seat, sequester, sequestrate, set, set back, set in, setoff, settle, shanghai, shape, sigil, sign on, sign up, signet, singularity, sink in, skyjack, smack, smite, snatch, socialize, specialty, speck, speckle, spirit away, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, stat, step, stereotype, stigmatize, stimulate, stir, streak, stress, striate, strike, strike hard, strike home, stripe, stud, summon, sunken part, sway, taint, take to, tamp, tang, taste, tattoo, tell, thrill, thumbmark, thumbprint, tick, tick off, token, touch, trace, trait, traumatize, trick, turn to, turn to use, underline, underscore, urge, vestige, vignette, wedge, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph

• impressed, affected, agonized, carved, confirmed, creased, cut, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, devoured by, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, enchased, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, firmly established, furrowed, glyphic, graved, graven, grooved, imbued with, implanted, impressed with, imprinted, incised, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inscribed, insculptured, inveterate, inwrought, lined, long-established, marked, moved, obsessed, obsessed by, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, penetrated with, printed, racked, rooted, sculptured, seized with, set, settled, stabilized, stamped, stricken, tooled, torn, tortured, touched, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, wracked

• impression, Ditto copy, Photostat, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Xerox, Xerox copy, absorption and regurgitation, aesthetic form, affect, affection, alveolation, alveolus, angle, apprehension, aquatint, archetype, aroma, art form, aspect, assumption, attitude, attribute, autolithograph, awareness, back number, backlash, backwash, badge, bare suggestion, belief, block, block print, boss, brainwashing, brand, build, bump, cachet, cameo, cast, catalog, cataloging, catechization, character, character sketch, characteristic, characterization, chromolithograph, climate of opinion, clout, collection, colophon, color print, common belief, community sentiment, concavity, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, conditioning, configuration, conformation, consciousness, consensus gentium, consideration, contact print, convexity, copperplate, copperplate print, copy, copying, counterfeiting, crayon engraving, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, delineation, dent, depiction, depression, description, details, dictation, differentia, differential, dimple, dint, distinctive feature, earmark, edition, effect, eidolon, embossment, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, emulation, engravement, engraving, enlargement, estimate, estimation, etching, ethos, evocation, excrescence, experience, eye, facet, fakery, fancy, fashion, feature, feeling, feeling tone, figuration, figure, fingerprint, flavor, following, footmark, footprint, footstep, force, foreboding, forefeeling, forgery, form, format, formation, fossil footprint, frame, funny feeling, furrow, general belief, genre, gestalt, gouge, graphic account, graphotype, guise, gust, gut reaction, half an idea, hallmark, hazy idea, heartthrob, hectograph copy, hint, hit-off, hollow, hollowness, honeycomb, hunch, ichnite, ichnolite, idea, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, image, imagery, imago, imbuement, imitation, impact, impersonation, implantation, imposture, impregnation, impress, impressible, impressionable, imprint, inculcation, incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, index, individualism, indoctrination, infixation, infixion, influence, influenceable, infusion, inkling, inner form, inoculation, instillation, instillment, intellection, intellectual object, intimation, intuition, intuitive impression, issue, itemization, judgment, keynote, layout, letterpress, library, library edition, light, lights, likeness, limning, lineaments, linoleum-block print, lithograph, look, lump, mackle, make, makeup, manner, mannerism, mark, marking, matrix, memory-trace, mental image, mental impression, mere notion, mezzotint, mimeograph copy, mimesis, mind, mirroring, modality, mode, model, mold, mystique, nature, negative, notch, notion, number, observation, odor, offcut, offprint, offset, onomatopoeia, opinion, pad, parody, particularity, particularization, passion, pattern, paw print, pawmark, peculiarity, perception, personal judgment, phase, phasis, photocopy, photograph, photostatic copy, picture, pimple, pit, plagiarism, plagiary, pock, pockmark, point of view, popular belief, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, position, positive, posture, preapprehension, premonition, presentiment, presumption, prevailing belief, print, printing, profile, profound sense, proof, property, prototype, public belief, public opinion, pug, pugmark, quality, quirk, reaction, recept, recoil, reference, reflection, reflex, regard, reindoctrination, reissue, rendering, rendition, repercussion, repetition, representation, reprint, reprinting, respect, response, responsive, rubber-block print, run, satire, savor, school edition, seal, seeming, semblance, sensation, sense, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentiment, series, set, setoff, shape, side, sight, sigil, sign, signet, significant form, simulacrum, simulation, singularity, sketch, slant, smack, sneaking suspicion, specialty, specification, stamp, stance, stat, step, structure, stud, style, suggestion, sunken part, supposition, susceptible, susceptive, suspicion, taint, take-off, takeoff, tang, taste, theory, thinking, thought, thumbmark, thumbprint, token, total effect, trace, track, trade book, trade edition, trait, trick, turn, twist, type, undercurrent, vague feeling, vague idea, vestige, view, viewpoint, vignette, vivid description, volume, way of thinking, wise, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, word painting, xylograph

• impressionability, accessibility, adaptability, affectibility, affectivity, agreeability, amenability, amenableness, aptitude, aptness, bendability, brightness, cleverness, delicacy, docility, ductibility, ductility, educability, elasticity, extendibility, extensibility, facility, fictility, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, formativeness, give, impressibility, influenceability, intelligence, limberness, limen, litheness, malleability, moldability, motivation, movability, open-mindedness, openness, openness to sensation, perceptibility, persuadability, perviousness, physical sensibility, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, quickness, readiness, readiness of feeling, receptiveness, receptivity, responsiveness, sensation level, sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentience, sentiency, sequacity, springiness, submissiveness, suggestibility, suppleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, swayableness, teachability, teachableness, tensileness, tensility, threshold of sensation, tractability, tractility, trainableness, weakness, willingness, willowiness

• impressionable, accessible, adaptable, alive to, amenable, apt, aware, bendable, bending, bright, clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, delicate, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, emotionable, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressive, influenceable, instructable, intelligent, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, motivated, movable, open, open-minded, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, quick, ready, receptive, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sensitive to, sentient, sequacious, shapable, soft, softhearted, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, susceptive, swayable, sympathetic, teachable, tender, tenderhearted, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, warmhearted, weak, whippy, willing, willowy, yielding

• impressive, Babylonian, Corinthian, absolute, acid, affecting, agitating, alive to, arousing, arresting, assuring, august, authoritative, aware, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, barbaric, biting, breathtaking, charged, cliff-hanging, cognizant, conclusive, conscious, convictional, convincing, corrosive, cutting, decisive, deluxe, determinative, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, driving, effective, elaborate, electric, elegant, evocative, exciting, exhilarating, extravagant, fancy, fine, forceful, forcible, formidable, galvanic, glorious, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, gutsy, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, imperative, imposing, impressible, impressionable, incisive, inflammatory, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, lavish, luxurious, maddening, magnificent, majestic, mind-blowing, mordant, moving, nervous, noble, notable, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, palatial, penetrating, perceptive, persuasive, perturbing, piercing, piquant, plush, poignant, portentous, posh, powerful, princely, proud, provocative, provoking, punchy, ravishing, receptive, redoubtable, ritzy, satisfactory, satisfying, sensational, sensible, sensile, sensitive to, sentient, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, strong, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, susceptible, susceptive, suspenseful, suspensive, swank, swanky, swell, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, touching, trenchant, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, vigorous, vital

• impressively, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, ardently, astonishingly, awesomely, conspicuously, copiously, effectively, elaborately, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, emphatically, exceptionally, expressively, exquisitely, extraordinarily, extravagantly, exuberantly, famously, fervently, fluently, forcefully, generously, glaringly, glibly, gloriously, glowingly, grandiosely, grandly, graphically, imposingly, in glowing terms, incredibly, intensely, luxuriously, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, majestically, markedly, marvelously, meaningfully, nobly, notably, particularly, passionately, peculiarly, pointedly, powerfully, preeminently, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, proudly, remarkably, richly, signally, singularly, smoothly, spiritedly, splendaciously, splendidly, splendiferously, strikingly, sumptuously, superbly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, tellingly, uncommonly, unusually, vehemently, vigorously, vividly, warmly, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

• impressment, abduction, angary, annexation, annexure, attachment, call, call-up, collectivization, commandeering, communalization, communization, compulsory military service, confiscation, conscription, crimping, distraint, distress, draft, draft call, drafting, eminent domain, enlistment, enrollment, execution, expropriation, garnishment, impoundment, induction, kidnapping, levy, mobilization, muster, nationalization, press, recruiting, recruitment, right of angary, selective service, sequestration, shanghaiing, socialization, summons

• imprimatur, John Hancock, OK, acceptance, affirmance, affirmation, approbation, approval, authentication, authorization, building permit, certification, confirmation, countersignature, endorsement, fishing license, go-ahead, green light, hunting license, license, nihil obstat, nod, notarization, okay, permission, permit, ratification, rubber stamp, sanction, seal, sigil, signature, signet, stamp, stamp of approval, subscription, the nod, validation, visa, vise, warrant

• imprint, acknowledgments, alveolation, alveolus, aquatint, autolithograph, back, back matter, backlash, backwash, bastard title, bed, bibliography, billhead, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, block, block print, blotch, book stamp, bookplate, boss, brand, bring out, broad arrow, bump, cachet, catch line, catchword, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, chromolithograph, cicatrize, clout, colophon, color print, concavity, confirm, contents, contents page, convexity, copperplate, copperplate print, copyright page, counterfoil, countermark, crayon engraving, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dapple, dash, dedication, deep-dye, define, delimit, demarcate, dent, depress, dimple, dint, discolor, docket, dot, embed, embossment, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, engraft, engrave, engravement, engraving, entrench, errata, establish, etch, etching, excrescence, fingerprint, fix, fleck, flyleaf, folio, footmark, footprint, footstep, force, fore edge, foreword, fossil footprint, found, freckle, front matter, furrow, gash, get out, gouge, government mark, government stamp, graphotype, grave, ground, half-title page, hallmark, hatch, head, hectograph, honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, impact, implant, impress, impression, inculcate, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, index, infix, ingrain, inscribe, inscription, instill, introduction, issue, jam, label, leaf, letterhead, letterpress, line, linoleum-block print, lithograph, lodge, logo, logotype, lump, mackle, make a mark, makeup, mark, mark off, mark out, masthead, mezzotint, mimeograph, mottle, multigraph, negative, nick, notch, offcut, offprint, offset, overprint, pack, pad, page, paw print, pawmark, pencil, pepper, pimple, pit, plant, plate, pock, pockmark, point, preface, preliminaries, press in, price tag, prick, print, proof, prove, publish, pug, pugmark, pull, pull a proof, punch, punch in, punctuate, puncture, put out, put to bed, put to press, reaction, recess, recoil, recto, reflex, registered trademark, reissue, repercussion, reprint, response, reverso, riddle, root, rubber-block print, run, run off, running head, running title, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, seat, set, set back, set in, setoff, settle, sigil, signature, signet, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, step, stereotype, sticker, stigmatize, streak, striate, strike, stripe, stub, stud, subtitle, sunken part, table of contents, tag, tail, tally, tamp, tattoo, text, thumbmark, thumbprint, tick, tick off, ticket, title, title page, token, trace, trade name, trademark, trademark name, trim size, type page, underline, underscore, verso, vestige, vignette, wedge, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph

• imprinted, carved, confirmed, creased, cut, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, enchased, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, firmly established, furrowed, glyphic, graved, graven, grooved, implanted, impressed, incised, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inscribed, insculptured, inveterate, inwrought, lined, long-established, marked, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, printed, rooted, sculptured, set, settled, stabilized, stamped, tooled, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled

• imprison, bastille, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bolt in, bound, box in, cage, cast in prison, chamber, check, circumscribe, clap in jail, clap up, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, curb, detain, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, fence in, gaol, hedge in, hem in, hold captive, hold in captivity, hold prisoner, house in, immure, impound, incarcerate, include, intern, jail, jug, kennel, leaguer, limit, lock in, lock up, mew, mew up, pen, pen in, pocket, prison, put away, quarantine, quod, rail in, release, remand, restrain, restrict, send down, shrine, shut in, shut up, stable, surround, throw into jail, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

• imprisoned, barred, behind bars, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, cloistered, closed-in, confined, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, enclosed, fenced, hedged, hemmed, immured, in captivity, in durance vile, in prison, in stir, incarcerated, jailed, leaguered, locked up, mewed, paled, penned, pent-up, quarantined, railed, restrained, shut-in, walled, walled-in

• imprisonment, beleaguerment, besetment, blockade, blockading, captivity, circumscription, close arrest, confinement, cordoning, custody, detention, dismemberment, durance, durance vile, duress, enclosure, envelopment, estrapade, galleys, hard labor, house arrest, immuration, immurement, impalement, incarceration, inclusion, internment, jailing, keelhauling, martyrdom, penal servitude, picketing, quarantine, railriding, remand, rock pile, siege, strappado, tar-and-feathering, term of imprisonment, the gantlet, torment, torture

• improbability, abnormality, anomaly, bare possibility, conversation piece, curio, curiosity, dark horse, exception, fighting chance, gambling chance, hardly a chance, hundred-to-one shot, inexpectance, inexpectancy, inexpectation, little chance, little opportunity, long odds, long shot, museum piece, no expectation, nonesuch, nonexpectation, oddity, off chance, outside chance, poor bet, poor lookout, poor possibility, poor prospect, prodigiosity, prodigy, rarity, remote possibility, slim chance, small chance, strange thing, the unforeseen, the unlooked-for, unanticipation, unexpectedness, unforeseeableness, unlikelihood, unpredictability, unpredictableness, unpreparedness, unreadiness

• improbable, absurd, crazy, distant, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, extraordinary, fanciful, farfetched, fishy, flimsy, forced, hard to believe, hardly possible, implausible, impossible, inconceivable, incredible, insane, ludicrous, mad, more than doubtful, more than expected, out-of-the-way, past expectation, peculiar, questionable, quite another thing, remote, ridiculous, something else again, strained, strange, sudden, thin, unannounced, unanticipated, unbelievable, unconvincing, undivined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unguessed, unheralded, unhoped for, unlikely, unpredictable, unpredicted, unprepared for, unpromising, unrealistic, unsubstantial, unthinkable, weak, weird, wild, without warning

• improbity, Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, artifice, bad faith, cunning, deceitfulness, dishonesty, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falseness, low cunning, treachery, two-facedness, wile

• impromptu, ad lib, ad libitum, ad-lib, ad-libbing, arrangement, at short notice, at sight, by ear, cadenza, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, extemporaneous, extemporaneously, extemporaneousness, extemporarily, extemporariness, extemporary, extempore, extemporization, extemporized, flourish, haphazard, hasty, hot lick, improvisation, improvisatorial, improvise, improvised, improvision, improviso, interpolation, jury-rig, jury-rigged, lick, makeshift, measure, off the cuff, off the hip, off-the-cuff, offhand, on sight, out of hand, playing by ear, precipitate, pro tempore, quick, riff, rough-and-ready, snap, stopgap, surprised, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, temporary arrangement, temporary measure, tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unrehearsed, unstudied, vamp

• improper, Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, amiss, arrant, atrocious, bad, barbaric, barbarous, base, black, blamable, blameworthy, blooper, boner, boo-boo, break, cacophonous, careless, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, corrupt, corruption, criminal, crude, damnable, dark, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, disorderly, disruptive, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, evil, excessive, execrable, false, faulty, faux pas, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fresh, futile, gaffe, gauche, graceless, gross, hardly the thing, harsh, heinous, ignominious, ill, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-seasoned, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, illegal, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, impolitic, imprecise, impropriety, impure, in bad taste, inaccurate, inadmissibility, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incompatible, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, incorrectness, indecent, indecorous, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegance, inelegant, inept, inexact, inexpedient, infamous, infelicitous, inferior, informal, iniquitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, invalid, irregular, irrelevant, knavish, lascivious, late, lewd, loose, low, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, malevolent, malodorous, misbehaving, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, mistaken, mistimed, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, not done, not respectable, not the thing, objectionableness, obscene, off base, off color, off-base, off-color, offensive, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, out-of-line, outlandish, peccant, premature, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, risque, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, rude, ruffianly, sacrilegious, sassy, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, sinister, slipshod, slovenly, solecism, solecistic, suggestive, tactless, tasteless, terrible, too late, too soon, unacceptableness, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbecomingness, unbefitting, unbehaving, unbeseeming, uncalled-for, unceremonious, uncomely, unconventional, uncourtly, uncouth, undecorous, undesirable, undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfavorable, unfelicitous, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unforgivable, unfortunate, ungenteel, ungodly, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unhandy, unhappy, unhealthy, unkind, unlawful, unlucky, unmeet, unmeetness, unpardonable, unpleasant, unpolished, unprofitable, unpropitious, unqualified, unready, unrefined, unrighteous, unripe, unseasonable, unseemliness, unseemly, unskillful, unspeakable, unsuitable, unsuited, untasteful, untimely, untoward, untrue, unwise, unworthy, vernacularism, vicious, vile, villainous, vulgar, vulgarism, wicked, wrong, wrongful

• improperly, abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, coarsely, confoundedly, crassly, crudely, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deucedly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, grossly, hellishly, horribly, incorrectly, indecently, indecorously, indelicately, inelegantly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, miserably, nakedly, offensively, openly, painfully, piteously, ribaldly, roughly, rudely, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, uncouthly, unduly, unpardonably, unseemly, untastefully, vulgarly, woefully, wrong, wrongfully, wrongly

• impropriety, Babbittry, Gothicism, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, atrocity, bad taste, badness, barbarism, barbarousness, blunder, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, breach, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crime, crime against humanity, criminality, crudeness, cumbrousness, deadly sin, delinquency, dereliction, deviance, deviancy, discourtesy, disentitlement, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, dysphemism, empty claim, empty title, enormity, erroneousness, error, evil, excess, failure, false claim, falseness, falsity, fault, faux pas, felony, frowned-upon behavior, gaffe, gaucherie, genocide, gracelessness, grossness, guilty act, harshness, heaviness, heavy sin, high camp, hooliganism, horseplay, ill-balanced sentences, illegality, immodesty, immorality, imprecision, improperness, impurity, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, incompatibility, inconcinnity, incongruity, incongruousness, inconvenience, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, inequitableness, inequity, inexactitude, inexactness, inexpedience, inexpiable sin, infelicity, infraction, iniquitousness, iniquity, injury, injustice, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, invalid claim, irregularity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kitsch, lack of claim, lack of finish, lack of polish, lapse, lasciviousness, lateness, leadenness, lewdness, localism, low camp, maladjustment, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, mesalliance, minor wrong, misalliance, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, mistake, mortal sin, naughtiness, no claim, nonfeasance, nonsanctioned behavior, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prematurity, roughhouse, roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, rudeness, ruffianism, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sinfulness, slang, slip, slipshod construction, stiltedness, suggestiveness, taboo word, tastelessness, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, turgidity, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, uncongeniality, uncouthness, undeservedness, undeservingness, undueness, unentitledness, uneuphoniousness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungracefulness, unjustness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unmeritedness, unpropitiousness, unrefinement, unrighteousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unutterable sin, unwieldiness, vandalism, venial sin, vice, violation, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness

• improvable, ameliorable, amendable, correctable, corrigible, curable, emendable, fixable, medicable, mendable, perfectible, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, retrievable, reversible

• improve, accommodate, acculturate, adapt, adjust, advance, alter, ameliorate, amend, apprentice, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, benefit, benefit from, best, better, boost, bottom out, brace up, break, break in, break up, breed, bring forward, bring up, cap, capitalize on, cash in on, change, checker, chop, chop and change, civilize, come about, come along, come around, come on, come round, complete, condition, convalesce, convert, correct, crown, culminate, cultivate, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, develop, deviate, discipline, diverge, diversify, do to perfection, drill, edify, edit, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, exceed, excel, exercise, exploit, fatten, favor, fetch up, fit, fix up, flop, form, forward, foster, further, gain, gain ground, gain strength, get ahead, get along, get better, go ahead, go forward, go one better, go straight, graduate, groom, grow better, haul around, help, house-train, housebreak, illume, illumine, improve on, improve the occasion, improve upon, increase, irradiate, jibe, lard, lick into shape, lift, look up, make an improvement, make capital of, make hay, make headway, make progress, make strides, mature, meliorate, mend, mitigate, modernize, modify, modulate, mutate, nurse, nurture, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, overcome, overhaul, overpass, overthrow, overtop, perfect, perk up, pick up, practice, predominate, prepare, preponderate, prevail, profit by, progress, promote, put in tune, put right, put to advantage, put to school, qualify, raise, rally, re-create, ready, realign, rear, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, recover, recruit, rectify, recuperate, redeem, redesign, redress, refine, refine upon, refit, reform, refurbish, rehabilitate, rehearse, remake, remedy, remodel, renew, renovate, repair, reshape, restructure, revamp, revise, revive, ring the changes, ripen, rub up, send to school, set right, shape up, shift, shift the scene, show improvement, shuffle the cards, skyrocket, sleep it off, socialize, straighten out, strengthen, subvert, surpass, swerve, tack, take a turn, take advantage of, take in hand, take off, top, tower above, tower over, trade on, train, transcend, transfigure, transform, trump, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn to account, turn to profit, turn to use, turn upside down, undergo a change, update, upgrade, uplift, use to advantage, vary, veer, warp, work a change, worsen

• improved, advanced, altered, ameliorated, beautified, better, bettered, changeable, changed, civilized, converted, cultivated, cultured, degenerate, developed, deviant, divergent, educated, embellished, enhanced, enriched, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, perfected, polished, qualified, rebuilt, refined, reformed, renewed, revived, revolutionary, subversive, transfigured, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmitigated, worse

• improvement, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, advance, alteration, amelioration, amendment, apostasy, apprenticeship, basic training, betterment, break, breaking, breeding, change, change of allegiance, change of heart, change of mind, changeableness, conditioning, constructive change, continuity, convalescence, conversion, cultivation, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, development, deviation, difference, discipline, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, drill, drilling, enhancement, exercise, fetching-up, fitting, flip-flop, fostering, gain, gradual change, grooming, housebreaking, in-service training, increase, instauration, manual training, melioration, military training, mitigation, modification, modulation, new birth, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, overthrow, practice, preparation, progress, qualification, radical change, raising, re-creation, reactivation, readying, realignment, rearing, rebirth, reclamation, reconstitution, reconversion, recovery, recrudescence, recuperation, redemption, redesign, redintegration, reenactment, reestablishment, reform, reformation, regeneration, rehabilitation, rehearsal, reinstatement, reinstation, reinstitution, reinvestiture, reinvestment, remaking, renascence, renewal, repair, replacement, reshaping, restitution, restoration, restructuring, reversal, reversion, revival, revivification, revolution, rise, shift, sloyd, sudden change, switch, total change, training, transition, turn, turnabout, upbringing, upgrading, upheaval, upswing, variation, variety, violent change, vocational education, vocational training, worsening

• improvidence, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, cheek, chutzpah, fecklessness, gall, hastiness, heedlessness, heroics, hubris, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, lax stewardship, negligence, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, poor husbandry, rashness, shiftlessness, temerariousness, temerity, thoughtlessness, thriftlessness, unchariness, unwariness

• improvident, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, careless, extravagant, feckless, grasshopper, happy-go-lucky, headlong, heedless, hubristic, impetuous, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, lavish, negligent, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, prodigal, profligate, profuse, rash, reckless, shiftless, short-sighted, spendthrift, temerarious, thoughtless, thriftless, unchary, uneconomical, unmindful, unproviding, unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty, unwary, wasteful

• improvisation, action, ad hoc measure, ad lib, ad-libbing, answer, arrangement, artifice, authorship, beginning, cadenza, coinage, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, countermove, coup, course of action, creation, creative effort, demarche, device, devising, disqualification, dodge, effort, expedient, extemporaneousness, extemporariness, extempore, extemporization, fabrication, flourish, generation, gimmick, hatching, hot lick, impromptu, improvision, incapability, incompetence, interpolation, invention, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, lack of preparation, last expedient, last resort, last shift, lick, makeshift, making do, maneuver, means, measure, mintage, move, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, origination, pis aller, planlessness, playing by ear, pro tempore, resort, resource, riff, shake-up, shift, solution, step, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, tactic, temporary arrangement, temporary expedient, temporary measure, trick, trump, unfitness, unfittedness, unpreparedness, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, vamp, vulnerability, working hypothesis, working proposition

• improvisational drama, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, legitimate drama, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, sensational play, serial, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• improvise, ad lib, ad-lib, be caught napping, be surprised, be taken unawares, be unprepared, beget, breed, bring forth, bring into being, call into being, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, dash off, design, develop, devise, discover, do offhand, dream up, engender, evolve, extemporize, fabricate, fake, frame, generate, give being to, give rise to, go off half-cocked, hatch, have no plan, improvisate, invent, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, make do, make do with, make up, mature, mint, originate, plan, play by ear, procreate, scrap the plan, spawn, strike off, strike out, think out, think up, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, vamp, whip up, whomp up, wing it

• improvised, ad hoc, ad libitum, ad-lib, band-aid, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, extemporized, haphazard, hasty, impromptu, improvisational, improvisatorial, improvise, improviso, jury-rigged, makeshift, makeshifty, off-the-cuff, offhand, precipitate, provisional, rough-and-ready, snap, stopgap, surprised, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, temporary, tentative, tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unrehearsed, unstudied

• imprudence, absurdity, act of folly, blunder, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, callowness, casualness, cheek, childishness, chutzpah, crudity of intellect, dumb trick, folly, gall, heroics, hubris, immaturity, improvidence, impudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscriminateness, indiscrimination, inexpedience, injudiciousness, insensibility, insensitivity, insolence, irrationality, lack of feeling, lack of refinement, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, pompousness, promiscuity, promiscuousness, puerility, rashness, reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, sottise, stuffiness, stupid thing, stupidity, syncretism, tactlessness, temerariousness, temerity, thoughtlessness, unchariness, uncriticalness, undiscriminatingness, undiscriminativeness, unfastidiousness, unintelligence, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unpreciseness, unreason, unreasonableness, unselectiveness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, untactfulness, unthoughtfulness, unwariness, unwisdom, unwise step, unwiseness, witlessness

• imprudent, blanket, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, careless, casual, crazy, foolhardy, foolish, general, hasty, heedless, hubristic, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, improvident, impudent, impulsive, inadvisable, inane, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, inexpedient, injudicious, insane, insensate, insensitive, insolent, irrational, irresponsible, mad, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, nonjudgmental, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, perverse, promiscuous, rash, reasonless, reckless, senseless, shortsighted, silly, tactless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unchary, unconsidered, uncritical, uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiscerning, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfastidious, unforeseeing, unmeticulous, unparticular, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unselective, unsensible, unsound, unsubtle, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwary, unwise, wholesale, witless, wrong

• impudence, arrogance, audacity, back talk, backchat, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brass, brassiness, bravado, brazen boldness, brazenfacedness, brazenness, bumptiousness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, cockiness, contempt, contemptuousness, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, despite, discourtesy, disdain, disesteem, dishonor, disparagement, disregard, disrespect, disrespectfulness, effrontery, face of brass, flippancy, freshness, gall, guff, hardihood, heroics, hubris, impertinence, impoliteness, improvidence, imprudence, incivility, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, irreverence, lack of respect, lip, mouth, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, rashness, ridicule, rudeness, sauce, sauciness, shamelessness, side, temerariousness, temerity, unchariness, unwariness

• impudent, arrant, arrogant, audacious, aweless, barefaced, biggety, blatant, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocksure, cocky, contemptuous, contumelious, crusty, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, hubristic, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, improvident, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, irreverent, malapert, nervy, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, presumptuous, procacious, rash, regardless of consequences, ridiculing, rude, sassy, saucy, shameless, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, temerarious, unabashed, unblushing, uncalled-for, unchary, uncivil, unwary, wise-ass

• impugn, abjure, accuse, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, assail, assert the contrary, attack, belie, blame, call in question, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure, complain against, condemn, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, criminate, cross, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, damn, decry, denounce, denunciate, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, disprove, dispute, forswear, fulminate against, gainsay, impeach, implicate, incriminate, inculpate, indict, inveigh against, involve, join issue upon, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, recant, reflect upon, refuse to admit, refute, renounce, reprehend, reproach, reprobate, repudiate, retract, revoke, shake up, take back, take issue with, traverse

• impugned, accused, arraigned, belied, blamed, charged, cited, confounded, confuted, deflated, denied, denounced, discarded, discredited, dismissed, disproved, disputed, exploded, exposed, impeached, implicated, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, indicted, invalidated, involved, negated, negatived, overthrown, overturned, punctured, refuted, rejected, reproached, shown up, tasked, taxed, under attack, under fire, upset

• impulse, actuation, archetypal pattern, archetype, atomic power, automatic writing, automatism, blind impulse, catalyst, collective unconscious, compulsion, compulsiveness, conditioning, constraint, drive, echolalia, echopraxia, electric power, electropower, excitant, exigency, forwardness, goad, haste, hastiness, horsepower, hydraulic power, hydroelectric power, id, impetus, impulsion, impulsiveness, inborn proclivity, incentive, incitation, incitement, instinct, instinctiveness, involuntariness, jet power, libido, lust, manpower, motivation, natural instinct, natural tendency, nuclear power, overhastiness, passion, pinch, piston power, precipitation, precociousness, precocity, prematureness, prematurity, press, pressure, primitive self, propulsion, push, rash impulse, reflex action, rocket power, rush, sheer chemistry, solar power, spur, steam power, stimulant, stress, subconscious urge, thermonuclear power, thrust, unlearned capacity, unreasoning impulse, untimeliness, unwilledness, urge, urgency, vital impulse, water power

• impulsive, a bit previous, abrupt, actuating, adrift, advanced, afloat, alternating, amorphous, animating, automatic, blind, breakneck, breathless, brittle, capricious, causal, causative, changeable, changeful, changing, choppy, compelling, compulsive, conditioned, corruptible, deciduous, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devil-may-care, different, directive, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, driving, dying, eccentric, electrifying, emotional, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent, extemporaneous, fading, far ahead, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fly-by-night, flying, foolhardy, forced, forward, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious, fugitive, giddy, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, headlong, ill-considered, immediate, impatient, impellent, impelling, impermanent, impetuous, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, inducive, infirm, inherent, innate, instinctive, insubstantial, involuntary, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, libidinal, madcap, mazy, mechanical, mercurial, momentary, moody, mortal, motivating, motivational, motive, motley, moving, mutable, natural, nerve-shattering, nonconformist, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, not firm, offhand, overhasty, oversoon, panting, passing, perishable, pluralistic, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, precocious, premature, pressing, previous, pulsive, quick, ragged, rambling, rash, reckless, reflex, reflexive, restless, rough, roving, rushed, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shocking, short-lived, shuffling, snap, spasmodic, speedy, spineless, spontaneous, sporadic, spur-of-the-moment, startling, subliminal, sudden, surprising, swift, temporal, temporary, thrusting, too early, too soon, transient, transitive, transitory, unaccountable, unanticipated, uncertain, unconscious, unconsidered, uncontrolled, uncrystallized, undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unequable, unequal, uneven, unexpected, unfixed, unforeseen, unintentional, unjelled, unlearned, unlooked-for, unmatured, unmeditated, unorthodox, unplanned, unpredictable, unpredicted, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprompted, unreliable, unrestrained, unripe, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, unthinking, untimely, ununiform, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, urgent, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wild, wishy-washy

• impulsively, a corps perdu, abruptly, at half cock, bang, capriciously, chaotically, dash, erratically, every which way, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heels over head, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, impetuously, in a rush, inconsistently, inconstantly, irregularly, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, nonuniformly, of a sudden, on short notice, overhastily, oversoon, plop, plump, plunk, pop, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, prematurely, quickly, rashly, recklessly, sharp, slap, slap-bang, smack, spasmodically, sporadically, startlingly, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, too early, too soon, unawares, unequally, unevenly, unexpectedly, unsteadily, unsystematically, untimely, ununiformly, without notice, without warning

• impulsiveness, abruptness, alacrity, capriciousness, desultoriness, deviability, eccentricity, erraticism, expeditiousness, feverishness, fickleness, flightiness, forwardness, freakishness, furiousness, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, impatience, impetuosity, impetuousness, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, instability, irregularity, mercuriality, moodiness, overhastiness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, precipitousness, precociousness, precocity, prematureness, prematurity, promptness, quickness, rashness, recklessness, restlessness, rush, shiftiness, speed, suddenness, swiftness, uncertainty, undependability, unfixedness, uninhibitedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unrestraint, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, untimeliness, variability, variation, variety, wantonness, waywardness, whimsicality

• impure, Adamic, Doric, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, adulterated, alloyed, backsliding, barbaric, barbarous, bawdy, belowstairs, besmirched, black, blemished, blue, cacophonous, carnal, clumsy, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupted, crude, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, defiled, degenerate, depraved, dirty, dissolute, doggerel, dysphemistic, erring, erroneous, evil, fallen, fallible, faulty, feculent, filthy, fleshly, forbidden, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, found wanting, frail, fulsome, graceless, gross, grubby, harsh, immature, immodest, immoral, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, improper, in bad taste, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, inelegant, inexact, infected, infelicitous, infirm, ithyphallic, lacking, lapsed, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, maculate, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, nasty, native, nonkosher, not perfect, obscene, of easy virtue, off, offensive, outlandish, partial, patchy, peccable, polluted, pornographic, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, prurient, putrescent, putrid, raunchy, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, ribald, ritually unclean, rotten, rude, run-of-mine, salacious, scarlet, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, short, sinful, sketchy, smirched, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, squalid, sullied, sultry, tainted, tasteless, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, uncourtly, uncouth, undeveloped, undignified, uneuphonious, uneven, unfelicitous, unfinished, ungodly, ungood, ungraceful, ungraded, unhallowed, unholy, unperfected, unpolished, unprintable, unpure, unrefined, unrepeatable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unseemly, unsorted, unsound, unswept, unthorough, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwashed, unwiped, vile, virtueless, vitiated, vulgar, wanting, wanton, wayward, weak, wicked

• impurity, Gothicism, adulteration, amorality, backsliding, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, black sheep, blemish, bombasticness, cacology, cacophony, carnality, clumsiness, coarseness, contaminant, contamination, corruption, criminality, crudeness, cumbrousness, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, defilement, degeneration, delinquency, depravity, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dissoluteness, dysphemism, erroneousness, evil, evil nature, fallibility, faultiness, filth, filthiness, foreign body, foreign intruder, foulness, gracelessness, griminess, grossness, grubbiness, harshness, heaviness, ill-balanced sentences, immaturity, immorality, immundity, impairment, imperfection, impropriety, impurities, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, inexactitude, inexactness, infelicity, intruder, lack, lack of finish, lack of polish, lasciviousness, leadenness, lecherousness, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, maculacy, mediocrity, messiness, miriness, misfit, monkey wrench, moral delinquency, mote, muddiness, obscenity, oddball, patchiness, peccability, pollution, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, prodigality, promiscuity, promiscuousness, prurience, recidivism, roughness, rudeness, salaciousness, scruffiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shortage, shortcoming, sinfulness, sketchiness, slipshod construction, sliver, slovenliness, smut, soiledness, speck, splinter, stiltedness, stone, sulliedness, taintedness, tastelessness, turgidity, unangelicalness, unchasteness, unchastity, uncleanliness, uncleanness, uncouthness, undevelopment, uneuphoniousness, unevenness, ungodliness, ungoodness, ungracefulness, unmorality, unperfectedness, unpureness, unrefinement, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unseemliness, unsoundness, untidiness, unvirtuousness, unwieldiness, vice, viciousness, vileness, vulgarism, vulgarity, want, wantonness, waywardness, weed, wickedness, wrongdoing

• imputable, accountable, accusable, alleged, arraignable, ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, chargeable, charged, credited, culpable, derivable from, derivational, derivative, due, explicable, impeachable, imputed, indictable, open to criticism, owing, putative, referable, referred to, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, to blame, traceable

• imputation, accounting for, accusal, accusation, accusing, adverse criticism, allegation, allegement, animadversion, answerability, application, arraignment, arrogation, ascription, aspersion, assignation, assignment, attachment, attaint, attribution, bad notices, bad press, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bend sinister, bill of particulars, black eye, black mark, blame, blot, blur, brand, bringing of charges, bringing to book, broad arrow, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, challenge, champain, charge, complaint, connection with, count, credit, criticism, delation, denouncement, denunciation, derivation from, disparagement, etiology, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, honor, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, impeachment, implication, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, knock, lawsuit, laying of charges, mark of Cain, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, onus, overcriticalness, palaetiology, personal remark, personality, pestering, pettifogging, pillorying, placement, plaint, point champain, priggishness, prosecution, quibble, quibbling, rap, reference to, reflection, reprimand, reproach, reproachfulness, responsibility, saddling, slam, slur, sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stricture, suggestion, suit, swipe, taint, taking exception, tarnish, taxing, trichoschistism, true bill, uncomplimentary remark, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation, whispering campaign

• impute, accredit, accuse, adduce, allege, apply, arraign, article, ascribe, assign, attach, attribute, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring to book, charge, cite, complain, credit, denounce, denunciate, fasten on, fasten upon, finger, give, hang something on, hint, hint at, impeach, imply, indict, inform against, inform on, insinuate, intimate, lay, lay charges, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, pin on, place, prefer charges, press charges, put, put on report, refer, report, reproach, set down to, suggest, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, twit

• in a bad way, ailing, ausgespielt, bad, below par, between two fires, cornered, critically ill, done, done up, down, effete, emptied, endangered, exhausted, faint, faintish, far-gone, fatigued, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, frazzled, ill, imperiled, in a predicament, in danger, in desperate case, in extremis, in jeopardy, indisposed, jaded, jeopardized, laid low, mortally ill, not quite right, off-color, on the spot, out of sorts, played out, pooped, rocky, run-down, seedy, shotten, sick, sick unto death, sickish, spent, taken ill, threatened, tired, under the weather, unwell, used up, worn-out

• in a bind, arrested, back, backward, behindhand, belated, blocked, delayed, delayed-action, detained, held up, hung up, in Dutch, in a fix, in a mess, in a pickle, in a predicament, in a scrape, in a spot, in abeyance, in deep water, in trouble, jammed, late, latish, moratory, never on time, obstructed, on Queer Street, on the spot, overdue, retarded, slow, stopped, tardy, unpunctual, unready, untimely

• in a rut, addicted, addicted to, dependent, dependent on, dully, equably, evenly, habituated, habitue, hooked, hooked on, monotonously, never free from, routinely, spaced out, tediously, uniformly, unrelievedly, used to