Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/42

• in a stew, abashed, abroad, adrift, agitated, all-overish, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, astray, at sea, balled-up, bewildered, bothered, breathless, chafing, chaotic, clueless, concerned, confused, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disordered, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, disturbed, eager, edgy, embarrassed, excited, fearful, flustered, fluttered, foreboding, fretful, fretting, fussed, guessing, hasty, hopped-up, impatient, impetuous, in a bother, in a dither, in a ferment, in a fix, in a flurry, in a fluster, in a flutter, in a foofaraw, in a huff, in a jumble, in a lather, in a maze, in a pet, in a pickle, in a pother, in a pucker, in a quiver, in a scrape, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a temper, in a tizzy, in a turmoil, in a twitter, in an uproar, jumbled, lost, mazed, misgiving, mixed-up, nervous, off the track, on edge, on tenterhooks, overanxious, overapprehensive, perplexed, perturbed, put-out, rattled, restive, restless, ruffled, shaken, shook, shuffled, solicitous, squirming, squirmy, strained, suspenseful, tense, troubled, turned around, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, unsettled, upset, without a clue, zealous

• in a way, a bit, a little, after a fashion, appreciably, as it were, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, comparatively, detectably, extremely, fairly, in a manner, in a measure, in part, in some measure, incompletely, kind of, leastwise, merely, mildly, moderately, modestly, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, only, part, partially, partly, pretty, pro tanto, purely, quite, rather, relatively, scarcely, simply, slightly, so far, so to speak, somewhat, sort of, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, to some extent, tolerably, very, visibly

• in action, acting, active, at work, behavioral, functional, functioning, going, going on, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play, in practice, in process, in the works, inaction, on foot, on the fire, ongoing, operating, operational, performing, practicing, running, serving, working

• in advance, ahead, ahead of time, ante, before, beforehand, beforetime, betimes, early, first, fore, foremost, foresightedly, forward, headmost, in advance of, in anticipation, in anticipation of, in front, in preparation for, in the forefront, in the foreground, in the front, in the lead, on loan, on security, precociously, previous, previous to, prior to, to the fore, to the front, up ahead

• in all conscience, actually, all joking aside, analytically, appropriately, as is proper, as is right, assuredly, bluffly, bluntly, broadly, brusquely, by right, by rights, candidly, certainly, clearly, condignly, correctly, decidedly, demonstrably, directly, duly, fittingly, for a certainty, for real, frankly, genuinely, in all fairness, in all reason, in all seriousness, in plain English, in plain words, in reason, indeed, indubitably, inequity, injustice, logically, manifestly, noticeably, observably, obviously, openheartedly, openly, outspokenly, patently, plain-spokenly, plainly, positively, properly, quite, rationally, really, reasonably, right, rightfully, rightly, roundly, sanely, sensibly, seriously, sincerely, soundly, straightforwardly, syllogistically, to be fair, truly, unambiguously, unconstrainedly, undeniably, unmistakably, unreservedly, unrestrainedly, verily, visibly, with no nonsense, within bounds, within reason, within reasonable limitations, without doubt

• in all respects, absolutely, across the board, ad infinitum, all, all over, all put together, altogether, as a body, as a whole, at all points, at full length, at large, bodily, collectively, corporately, dead, definitely, directly, en bloc, en masse, entirely, even, every bit, every inch, every whit, exactly, expressly, faithfully, head and shoulders, heart and soul, in a body, in all, in bulk, in every respect, in extenso, in its entirety, in the aggregate, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto, inside and out, ipsissimis verbis, just, literally, literatim, neck deep, on all counts, overall, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, right, rigidly, rigorously, root and branch, square, squarely, straight, strictly, through and through, throughout, to the brim, to the death, to the end, to the hilt, to the letter, totally, tout ensemble, undeviatingly, unerringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, wholly, word by word, word for word, you name it

• in any case, after all, again, albeit, all the same, although, anyhow, anyway, anywise, at all, at all events, at any rate, but, by any means, even, even so, for all that, howbeit, however, if, in any event, in any way, in case, in case that, in either case, irregardless, just in case, just the same, nevertheless, nohow, nonetheless, notwithstanding, provided, rather, regardless, still, though, when, yet

• in cahoots, affiliate, affiliated, allied, associate, associated, cabalistic, confederate, confederated, conspiratorial, corporate, coupled, enleagued, federate, federated, in collaboration, in collusion, in cooperation, in league, in partnership, in with, leagued, married, paired, partners with, teamed, wed, wedded

• in charge, ascendant, at the head, at the helm, at the reins, boss, chief, commanding, controlling, dominant, general, governing, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic, in ascendancy, in authority, in chief, in command, in control, in custody, in detention, in hold, in power, in the ascendant, in the saddle, leading, master, on the throne, overseeing, paramount, predominant, predominate, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prevalent, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, ruling, sovereign, superintendent, supervising, supervisory, supreme, under close arrest, under house arrest

• in clover, affluent, charmed, comfortable, comfortably situated, content, contented, cozy, delighted, easy, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, favorably impressed with, glad, gladsome, gratified, in comfort, in ease, in good case, in luxury, in velvet, intrigued, on Easy Street, on velvet, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, prosperous, satisfied, sold on, successful, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, wealthy

• in cold blood, advisedly, by design, calculatedly, cold-bloodedly, coldheartedly, coldly, consciously, contemplatedly, deadpan, deliberately, designedly, dispassionately, heartlessly, intentionally, knowingly, meditatedly, on purpose, pointedly, premeditatedly, purposefully, purposely, purposively, spiritlessly, unemotionally, unfeelingly, unpassionately, voluntarily, willfully, with dry eyes, with full intent, with intent, with malice aforethought, with purpose, wittingly

• in condition, alive and kicking, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, chipper, enjoying health, eupeptic, fine, fit, fit and fine, fixed, full of beans, healthful, healthy, in apple-pie order, in commission, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good condition, in good form, in good health, in good shape, in good trim, in health, in high feather, in kilter, in mint condition, in order, in repair, in shape, in the pink, in trim, in working order, out of commission, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of whack, to rights, up to scratch, up to snuff

• in detail, accurately, at large, at length, bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by snatches, completely, concretely, conscientiously, definitely, distinctly, drop by drop, especially, exactingly, exactly, expressly, exquisitely, foot by foot, fully, fussily, in driblets, in extenso, in full, in installments, in lots, in particular, in small doses, in snatches, in toto, inch by inch, inchmeal, item by item, little by little, meticulously, minutely, nicely, part by part, particularly, piece by piece, piecemeal, precisely, punctiliously, punctually, refinedly, rigorously, scrupulously, separately, singly, specially, specifically, strictly, to be specific, wholly, with exactitude, with great nicety, with precision

• in due course, after a while, anon, auspiciously, before long, betimes, by and by, directly, ere long, eventually, in a moment, in a while, in due season, in due time, in good time, in proper time, in time, just in time, now or never, opportunely, presently, propitiously, seasonably, shortly, soon, ultimately

• in extremis, bad, between two fires, cornered, despaired of, desperate, done for, dying, endangered, expiring, facing death, given up, going, hard pressed, hard up, hopeless, imperiled, in a predicament, in articulo mortis, in danger, in desperate case, in desperate straits, in extremities, in jeopardy, incapable of life, jeopardized, low, moribund, near death, nonviable, on the spot, pinched, sinking, slipping, slipping away, sorely pressed, straitened, terminal, threatened, up against it

• in fact, absolutely, actually, certainly, de facto, factually, forsooth, genuinely, historically, in actuality, in effect, in reality, in truth, in very sooth, indeed, indeedy, manifestly, nothing else but, obviously, of a truth, positively, really, really-truly, truly, undoubtedly, verily, veritably, with truth

• in favor of, advocating, all for, approving, backing, favorable, favoring, for, in aid of, in behalf of, in furtherance of, on account of, on behalf of, pro, remedial of, supporting, well-disposed, well-inclined, with

• in favor, creditable, esteemed, estimable, held in esteem, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, honorable, honored, in, in good odor, in high favor, in with, meritorious, noble, on good terms, on speaking terms, prestigious, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverend, venerable, venerated, well-thought-of, worshipful, worthy

• in force, acting, active, armipotent, at work, authoritative, being, cogent, current, dynamic, effective, energetic, existent, existing, extant, forceful, forcible, functional, functioning, going, going on, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, in being, in commission, in effect, in exercise, in existence, in hand, in operation, in play, in power, in practice, in process, in service, in the works, in use, inaction, irresistible, living, mighty, mighty in battle, on foot, on the fire, ongoing, operating, operational, operative, potent, powerful, prepotent, present, prevalent, puissant, ruling, running, striking, strong, subsistent, subsisting, telling, under the sun, valid, vigorous, vital, working

• in full swing, actively, afoot, all out, allegretto, allegro, animatedly, astir, balmy, blooming, blossoming, booming, breezily, briskly, clear, energetically, exuberant, fair, fat, flourishing, flowering, fruiting, full tilt, going strong, halcyon, in full force, in good case, lively, on foot, palmy, piping, prospering, rosy, sleek, spiritedly, sprightly, stirring, thriving, unabated, unallayed, unbated, undiminished, unexhausted, unfaded, unflagging, unshaken, unweakened, unweakening, unwithered, unworn, vigorous, vivaciously

• in full view, apparent, beholdable, detectable, discernible, disclosed, evident, exposed, exposed to view, hanging out, in evidence, in plain sight, in view, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, open, open to view, outcropping, perceivable, perceptible, recognizable, revealed, seeable, showing, to be seen, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, viewable, visible, visual, witnessable

• in full, altogether, at large, at length, completely, comprehensively, entirely, exhaustively, fully, globally, hundred per cent, in detail, in extenso, in full measure, in particular, in toto, inclusively, inside out, integrally, largely, minutely, one and all, outright, particularly, roundly, specifically, thoroughly, to the hilt, totally, tout a fait, unconditionally, unreservedly, wholly

• in fun, as a joke, devilishly, elfishly, for amusement, for fun, for kicks, for laughs, for sport, impishly, in jest, in joke, in play, in sport, jestingly, jokingly, knavishly, mischievously, playfully, prankishly, puckishly, roguishly, scampishly, sportively, waggishly

• in general, all in all, all things considered, altogether, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, at large, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, chiefly, commonly, generally, generally speaking, mainly, mostly, normally, on balance, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, predominantly, prevailingly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, usually

• in hand, accepted, accidental, accompanying, acting, active, ado, afloat, afoot, arranged, assumed, at work, brewing, businesslike, by one, chanced, chastened, circumstantial, constrained, controlled, current, doing, eventuating, extra, formal, forthcoming, free and clear, fresh, functional, functioning, going, going on, habitual, happening, harmonious, held, held back, held in reserve, held out, hushed, in abeyance, in control, in embryo, in exercise, in fee, in fee simple, in force, in operation, in play, in practice, in preparation, in process, in production, in progress, in seisin, in stock, in store, in the oven, in the wind, in the works, inaction, incidental, limited, methodical, mint, new, normal, occasional, occurring, on, on foot, on hand, on stream, on the anvil, on the fire, on the way, ongoing, operating, operational, ordered, orderly, original, own, owned, passing, possessed, prevailing, prevalent, pristine, put aside, put by, quelled, regular, reserve, restrained, resultant, routine, running, saved, softened, spare, stable, steady, stored, subdued, suspended, symmetrical, systematic, taking place, tempered, to spare, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, under construction, under control, under revision, under way, undertaken, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unhandled, uniform, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, usual, waived, well in hand, well-ordered, well-regulated, working

• in harmony, accommodated to, accordant, according to, adapted to, adjusted to, affirmative, after, agreeable, agreeable to, agreeably to, agreeing, akin, all together, amicable, answerable, answerable to, as one, as one man, at once, at one, attuned, by, cheek by jowl, coactively, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, compatible, concertedly, concordant, concurrently, concurring, conformable, conformable to, congenial, congruent, congruent with, congruous, conjointly, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consistent with, consonant, cooperating, cooperative, corporately, correspondent, corresponding, empathetic, empathic, en rapport, equivalent, frictionless, hand in glove, hand in hand, harmonious, in accord, in accordance with, in agreement, in agreement with, in common, in compliance with, in concert, in concord, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in partnership, in rapport, in step with, in sync, in synchronization, in tune, in uniformity with, in unison, inaccordance, inharmony, jointly, like-minded, mutually, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, peaceful, per, positive, proper to, proportionate, reconcilable, self-consistent, shoulder to shoulder, suitable for, symbiotic, sympathetic, synchronized, synchronous, together, unanimous, understanding, uniform, uniform with, unisonant, unisonous, united, with one accord, with one voice

• in keeping with, accommodated to, according to, adapted to, adjusted to, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, answerable to, by, conformable to, congruent with, consistent with, in accordance with, in agreement with, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in step with, in there with, in uniformity with, per, proper to, right with, suitable for, together on, together with, uniform with, with

• in keeping, accordant, agreeably, anal, bourgeois, by consensus, compatibly, compulsive, concordant, concordantly, conformist, congenially, consonantly, conventional, corresponding, fittingly, formalistic, hand in glove, harmonious, harmoniously, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in line, in step, in unison, just right, kosher, orthodox, pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, square, straight, stuffy, traditionalist, unanimously, uptight, with it

• in league, affiliate, affiliated, allied, associate, associated, cabalistic, confederate, confederated, conspiratorial, corporate, coupled, enleagued, federate, federated, in cahoots, in collaboration, in collusion, in cooperation, in partnership, in with, leagued, married, paired, partners with, teamed, wed, wedded

• in line with, accommodated to, according to, adapted to, adjusted to, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, answerable to, by, conformable to, congruent with, consistent with, in accordance with, in agreement with, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in step with, in there with, in uniformity with, per, proper to, right with, suitable for, together on, together with, uniform with, with

• in line, accordant, agreeably, anal, bourgeois, by consensus, compatibly, compulsive, concordant, concordantly, conformist, congenially, consonantly, conventional, corresponding, dead, dead ahead, direct, directly, due, due north, fittingly, formalistic, forthright, hand in glove, harmonious, harmoniously, in a beeline, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in keeping, in line with, in step, in unison, just right, kosher, orthodox, pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, right, square, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straightforward, straightforwards, straightly, stuffy, traditionalist, unanimously, undeviatingly, unswervingly, unveeringly, uptight, with it

• in motion, active, astir, driving, impelling, mobile, motile, motivational, motive, motor, moving, on the go, on the move, on the run, propellant, propelling, stirring, transitional, traveling, under sail, under way

• in name only, alleged, apparently, artificially, avowed, byname, claimed, cognominal, diminutive, epithetic, erroneously, factitiously, falsely, formal, honorific, hypocoristic, hypocritical, nominal, nominally, nominative, ostensible, ostensibly, plausibly, pretended, pretexted, professed, purported, quasi, seemingly, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spuriously, synthetically, titular, truthlessly, ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously, would-be

• in no time, PDQ, apace, at once, decisively, directly, expeditiously, forthwith, immediately, in a bit, in a flash, in a jiff, in a jiffy, in a moment, in a second, in a trice, in a twink, in a twinkling, in a wink, in an instant, in nothing flat, in short order, in two shakes, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, like a shot, on the instant, on the spot, pretty damned quick, promptly, pronto, quickly, right away, right off, smartly, speedily, straightaway, straightway, subito, summarily, swiftly, tout de suite, with all speed, without delay, without further delay

• in operation, acting, active, at work, functional, functioning, going, going on, in commission, in effect, in exercise, in force, in hand, in play, in practice, in process, in service, in the works, in use, inaction, on foot, on the fire, ongoing, operating, operational, running, working

• in opposition to, across, adverse to, against, at cross-purposes with, athwart, con, confronting, contra, contrary to, counter to, dead against, facing, fronting, in conflict with, in contempt of, in defiance of, in disagreement with, in front of, opposed to, opposite to, over against, toward, versus, vis-a-vis

• in opposition, adverse, against the grain, against the tide, against the wind, alienated, antagonistic, antagonistically, antiestablishment, at cross-purposes, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at issue, at odds, at odds with, at variance, at variance with, at war with, athwart, breakaway, conflicting, contra, contrariwise, contrary, counter, counter to, counter-culture, counteractive, counteractively, cross, detrimental, differing, difficult, disagreeing, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, eyeball-to-eyeball, hard, harmful, hostile, in confrontation, in hostile array, in opposition to, inimical, miserable, nonconforming, not easy, opposed, opposing, opposingly, opposite, recusant, rigorous, sectarian, sectary, sinister, stressful, troublesome, troublous, trying, underground, unfavorable, untoward, up in arms, with crossed bayonets, wretched

• in order, by stages, fixed, hierarchically, in apple-pie order, in commission, in condition, in fine fettle, in good condition, in good form, in good shape, in good trim, in kilter, in repair, in sequence, in series, in shape, in succession, in the pink, in trim, in turn, in working order, out of commission, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of whack, seriatim, step by step, to rights, up to scratch, up to snuff

• in particular, at length, completely, concretely, definitely, distinctly, especially, exactly, expressly, fully, in detail, in extenso, in full, in toto, item by item, minutely, particularly, precisely, separately, singly, specially, specifically, to be specific, wholly

• in passing, a propos, along the way, amain, apace, apropos, apropos of, as one goes, at once, by forced marches, by the by, by the way, cursorily, en passant, en route, expeditiously, feverishly, for example, furiously, hand over fist, hastily, helter-skelter, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, in mid-progress, in transit, in transitu, incidentally, instantly, on the road, on the run, on the way, on the wing, par exemple, parenthetically, pell-mell, promptly, quickly, slapdash, speaking of, speedily, superficially, swiftly, with a rush, with all haste, with dispatch, with haste

• in plain sight, aboveboard, apparent, before one, beholdable, detectable, discernible, disclosed, evident, exposed, exposed to view, face to face, hanging out, in broad daylight, in evidence, in full view, in open court, in plain view, in public, in public view, in the marketplace, in the open, in view, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, on the table, open, open to view, openly, outcropping, overtly, perceivable, perceptible, publicly, recognizable, revealed, seeable, showing, to be seen, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, viewable, visible, visual, witnessable

• in power, armipotent, at the head, at the helm, at the reins, authoritative, cogent, dynamic, effective, energetic, forceful, forcible, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, in authority, in charge, in command, in control, in force, in the saddle, irresistible, mighty, mighty in battle, on the throne, operative, potent, powerful, prepotent, puissant, ruling, striking, strong, telling, valid, vigorous, vital

• in practice, acting, active, at work, functional, functioning, going, going on, in commission, in effect, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play, in process, in service, in the works, in use, inaction, on foot, on the fire, ongoing, operating, operational, running, working

• in process, accepted, acting, active, assumed, at work, brewing, chanced, forthcoming, functional, functioning, going, going on, in embryo, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play, in practice, in preparation, in production, in progress, in the oven, in the works, inaction, on foot, on stream, on the anvil, on the fire, on the way, ongoing, operating, operational, running, under construction, under revision, under way, undertaken, working

• in production, brewing, forthcoming, going on, in embryo, in hand, in preparation, in process, in progress, in the oven, in the works, on foot, on stream, on the anvil, on the fire, on the way, under construction, under revision, under way

• in progress, accepted, assumed, brewing, chanced, forthcoming, going on, in embryo, in hand, in mid-progress, in preparation, in process, in production, in the oven, in the works, on stream, on the anvil, on the fire, on the way, under construction, under revision, under way, undertaken

• in question, arguable, at issue, before the house, conditional, conditioned, confutable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, dependent, depending, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, iffy, in debate, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in suspense, in the balance, mistakable, moot, on the agenda, on the docket, on the floor, on the table, open, open for discussion, open to doubt, open to question, pendent, pending, problematic, questionable, refutable, speculative, sub judice, suppositional, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, uncounted, undecided, under active consideration, under advisement, under consideration, under examination, under investigation, under surveillance, undetermined, unestablished, unfixed, unsettled, untold, up for grabs

• in re, about, anent, apropos of, as, as for, as regards, as respects, as to, concerning, in connection with, in point of, in reference to, in regard to, in relation to, in relation with, in respect to, of, on, pertaining to, pertinent to, re, referring to, regarding, relating to, relative to, respecting, speaking of, touching, upon, with regard to, with respect to

• in reality, absolutely, actually, certainly, de facto, factually, forsooth, genuinely, historically, in actuality, in effect, in fact, in truth, in very sooth, indeed, indeedy, manifestly, nothing else but, obviously, of a truth, positively, really, really-truly, truly, undoubtedly, verily, veritably, with truth

• in relation to, about, anent, apropos of, as for, as regards, as respects, as to, concerning, in connection with, in point of, in re, in reference to, in regard to, in relation with, in respect to, of, on, pertaining to, pertinent to, re, referring to, regarding, relating to, relative to, respecting, speaking of, touching, upon, with regard to, with respect to

• in reserve, about to be, already in sight, approaching, aside, at hand, back, brewing, by, close, close at hand, coming, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in anticipation, in danger imminent, in prospect, in readiness, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, instant, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, near, near at hand, nearing, on the horizon, overhanging, preparing, that will be, threatening, to come, upcoming, waiting

• in return, au pair, back, by turns, en revanche, even, exchangeably, for a consideration, in amends, in answer, in compensation, in consideration, in exchange, in rebuttal, in reciprocation, in reparation, in reply, in reprisal, in requital, in response, in retaliation, in retribution, in revenge, in turn, mutually, reciprocally, turn about

• in session, accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, amassed, assembled, bunched, bundled, clumped, clustered, collected, combined, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, cumulate, fascicled, fasciculated, gathered, glomerate, heaped, in a huddle, in conclave, in conference, in consultation, in council, joined, joint, knotted, leagued, lumped, massed, meeting, packaged, piled, sitting, stacked, wrapped up

• in shape, alive and kicking, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, chipper, enjoying health, eupeptic, fine, fit, fit and fine, fixed, full of beans, healthful, healthy, in apple-pie order, in commission, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good condition, in good form, in good health, in good shape, in good trim, in health, in high feather, in kilter, in mint condition, in order, in repair, in the pink, in trim, in working order, to rights, up to scratch, up to snuff

• in short supply, arrested, at a premium, callow, defective, deficient, embryonic, failing, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default, inadequate, incomplete, infant, lacking, missing, needing, out of print, out of season, out of stock, part, partial, patchy, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scrappy, short, shy, sketchy, sparse, uncommon, underdeveloped, undeveloped, wanting

• in sight, apparent, beholdable, detectable, discernible, disclosed, evident, exposed, exposed to view, hanging out, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, open, open to view, outcropping, perceivable, perceptible, recognizable, revealed, seeable, showing, to be seen, unclouded, unhidden, viewable, visible, visual, witnessable

• in step with, accommodated to, according to, adapted to, adjusted to, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, answerable to, by, conformable to, congruent with, consistent with, in accordance with, in agreement with, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in uniformity with, per, proper to, suitable for, uniform with

• in step, accordant, agreeably, anal, bourgeois, by consensus, compatibly, compulsive, concordant, concordantly, conformist, congenially, consonantly, conventional, corresponding, fittingly, formalistic, hand in glove, harmonious, harmoniously, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in keeping, in line, in phase, in sync, in tempo, in time, in unison, just right, kosher, on the beat, orthodox, pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, square, straight, stuffy, synchronal, synchronic, synchronized, synchronous, traditionalist, unanimously, uptight, with it

• in store, about to be, already in sight, appointed, approaching, at hand, brewing, by one, close, close at hand, coming, destined, devoted, doomed, fatal, fated, fateful, foredoomed, forthcoming, free and clear, future, gathering, going to happen, held, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in anticipation, in danger imminent, in fee, in fee simple, in hand, in prospect, in readiness, in reserve, in seisin, in stock, in supply, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inevitable, instant, looming, lowering, lurking, marked, menacing, near, near at hand, nearing, on hand, on the horizon, ordained, overhanging, own, owned, possessed, preparing, that will be, threatening, to come, upcoming, waiting, written

• in succession, by stages, consecutively, hand running, hierarchically, in Indian file, in a chain, in a line, in a row, in a series, in column, in file, in order, in sequence, in series, in single file, in turn, progressively, running, sequentially, serially, seriatim, step by step, successively, turn about

• in suspense, abeyant, addled, anxious, apathetic, apprehensive, at a loss, at issue, baffled, bamboozled, beat, buffaloed, cataleptic, catatonic, conditional, conditioned, confounded, confusedly, contingent, dazed, dazedly, dead, dependent, depending, disconcertedly, dopey, dormant, doubtfully, dubiously, dull, flat, floored, foul, fuddled, groggy, heavy, in a daze, in a dilemma, in a maze, in abeyance, in question, in the balance, inactive, inert, keyed-up, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, licked, lifeless, logy, mazedly, muddled, mystified, nonplussed, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, open, passive, pendent, pending, perplexed, perplexedly, phlegmatic, puzzled, quivering, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, stagnant, standing, static, stuck, stumped, suspended, suspenseful, tame, taut, tense, thrown, torpid, unaroused, uncertainly, uncounted, undecided, undetermined, unestablished, unfixed, unsettled, untold, up for grabs, with bated breath, with muscles tense

• in the air, above, abovestairs, afloat, airward, aloft, aloof, bandied about, bruited about, current, going about, going around, high, high up, in circulation, in the clouds, in the news, made public, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, over, overhead, reported, rife, rumored, skyward, straight up, talked about, tiptoe, to the zenith, up, upstairs, upward, upwards, whispered, whispered about

• in the bag, ascertained, assured, attested, certified, cooked-up, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, decided, determinate, determined, established, fixed, guaranteed, made sure, nailed down, on ice, open-and-shut, packed, planned, plotted, prearranged, preconcerted, precontrived, premeditated, preordered, proved, put-up, rigged, schemed, secure, set, set-up, settled, stacked, stated, tested, tried, warranted

• in the blood, atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, hereditary, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, physical, primal, temperamental

• in the cards, about to be, already in sight, appointed, approaching, apt, at hand, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, destined, devoted, doomed, fair, fatal, fated, fateful, foredoomed, foreseeable, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen, hopeful, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inevitable, instant, liable, likely, looming, lowering, lurking, marked, menacing, near, near at hand, nearing, odds-on, on the horizon, ordained, overhanging, predictable, predictable within limits, preparing, presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, statistically probable, that will be, threatening, to come, upcoming, verisimilar, waiting, written

• in the clear, above water, afoot and lighthearted, angelic, at anchor, at large, at liberty, blameless, childlike, clear, decipherable, detached, disengaged, dovelike, easygoing, emancipated, fair, faultless, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, go-as-you-please, guiltless, high and dry, in harbor, in safety, incorrupt, innocent, lamblike, legible, liberated, loose, not guilty, offenseless, on, on the loose, out of danger, past danger, prelapsarian, pristine, readable, released, reproachless, sans reproche, scot-free, sinless, terra firma, unattached, uncoded, uncommitted, uncorrupted, undefiled, under cover, unenciphered, unengaged, unfallen, uninvolved, unlapsed, untouched by evil, with clean hands, without reproach

• in the dark, at night, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, behind the veil, benighted, by night, covertly, dark, darkling, in a corner, in a whisper, in darkness, in hidlings, in secret, in the background, in the night, nobody the wiser, secretly, sotto voce, sub rosa, under the breath, under the rose, undercover, underground, with bated breath

• in the know, alive to, appreciative of, apprised of, awake to, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, cognizant of, conscious of, hep to, in the secret, informed, informed of, let into, mindful of, no stranger to, on to, privy to, seized of, sensible of, sensible to, streetwise, undeceived, wise to

• in the long run, all in all, all things considered, almost entirely, altogether, approximately, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as things go, as times go, at large, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, chiefly, commonly, effectually, essentially, eventually, finally, generally, generally speaking, in due course, in due season, in due time, in general, in round numbers, in the main, in time, mainly, mostly, normally, on balance, on the average, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, predominantly, prevailingly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, substantially, ultimately, usually, virtually

• in the neighborhood of, about, approaching, approximate, approximating, arm-in-arm, around, burning, cheek-by-jowl, circa, close, close about, close upon, hand-in-hand, hot, in the neighborhood, in the vicinity, intimate, just about, near, near enough to, near the mark, near upon, nearing, nearish, nigh, nighish, propinque, proximal, proximate, round, round about, side-by-side, somewhere about, upwards of, vicinal, warm

• in the pink, alive and kicking, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, chipper, enjoying health, eupeptic, fine, fit, fit and fine, fixed, full of beans, healthful, healthy, in apple-pie order, in commission, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good condition, in good form, in good health, in good shape, in good trim, in health, in high feather, in kilter, in mint condition, in order, in repair, in shape, in trim, in working order, to rights, up to scratch, up to snuff

• in the red, at a loss, bankrupt, burdened with debt, deep in debt, destitute, down-and-out, embarrassed, encumbered, fortuneless, homeless, in debt, in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock, in the gutter, in the hole, indebted, insolvent, involved, landless, moneyless, mortgaged, out, out of funds, out of pocket, penniless, plunged in debt, propertyless, tied up, to the bad, unprofitably, without a sou

• in the wind, about to be, accidental, accompanying, ado, afloat, afoot, against the wind, already in sight, approaching, at hand, brewing, by the wind, circumstantial, close, close at hand, coming, current, doing, eventuating, forthcoming, future, gathering, going on, going to happen, happening, head to wind, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in hand, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in view, incidental, instant, into the wind, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, near, near at hand, nearing, occasional, occurring, on, on foot, on the horizon, on the wind, ongoing, overhanging, passing, preparing, prevailing, prevalent, resultant, taking place, that will be, threatening, to come, under way, up the wind, upcoming, waiting

• in the works, accepted, acting, active, arranged, assumed, at work, blueprinted, brewing, calculated, chanced, charted, contrived, designed, devised, figured, forthcoming, functional, functioning, going, going on, in embryo, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play, in practice, in preparation, in process, in production, in progress, in the oven, inaction, methodized, on foot, on stream, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the fire, on the tapis, on the way, ongoing, operating, operational, organized, planned, plotted, projected, rationalized, running, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, strategetic, strategic, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, under construction, under revision, under way, undertaken, worked out, working

• in time, a tempo, cyclically, daily, day by day, early enough, epochally, eventually, every day, every hour, hour by hour, hourly, in due course, in due season, in due time, in good time, in phase, in step, in sync, in tempo, just in time, on the beat, periodically, recurrently, rhythmically, seasonally, soon enough, synchronal, synchronic, synchronized, synchronous, synchronously, time enough, ultimately

• in tune, accordant, according, agreeable, agreeing, akin, amicable, assonant, assonantal, at one, attuned, blended, blending, chiming, compatible, concordant, congenial, consonant, corresponding, empathetic, empathic, en rapport, frictionless, harmonic, harmonious, harmonizing, homophonic, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in concord, in rapport, in sync, in unison, inharmony, like-minded, monodic, monophonic, of one mind, peaceful, sympathetic, symphonious, synchronized, synchronous, together, tuned, understanding, unisonant, unisonous, united

• in turn, alternately, au pair, by stages, by turns, consecutively, even, every other, exchangeably, hand running, hierarchically, in Indian file, in a chain, in a line, in a row, in a series, in column, in exchange, in file, in order, in return, in rotation, in sequence, in series, in single file, in succession, in turns, make and break, mutually, off and on, progressively, reciprocally, round and round, running, sequentially, serially, seriatim, step by step, successively, to and fro, turn about, up and down

• in unison, accordant, according, agreeably, all agreeing, all together, as one, as one man, assonant, assonantal, at a clip, at once, at one time, attuned, back to back, blended, blending, by acclamation, by consensus, cheek by jowl, chiming, coactively, coefficiently, coinstantaneously, collectively, combinedly, communally, compatibly, concertedly, concordant, concordantly, concurrently, congenially, conjointly, consentaneously, consonant, consonantly, cooperatingly, cooperatively, corporately, fittingly, hand in glove, hand in hand, harmonic, harmonious, harmoniously, harmonizing, homophonic, in a chorus, in accord, in agreement, in chorus, in common, in concert, in concert with, in concord, in harmony with, in keeping, in line, in partnership, in phase, in step, in sync, in tune, inharmony, isochronously, jointly, just right, monodic, monophonic, mutually, nem con, nemine contradicente, nemine dissentiente, on all hands, on the beat, one and all, shoulder to shoulder, simultaneously, symphonious, synchronized, synchronous, synchronously, to a man, together, tuned, unanimously, unisonant, unisonous, with it, with one accord, with one consent, with one voice, without contradiction

• in view, about to be, accessible, already in sight, anticipated, apparent, approaching, at hand, attendant, available, awaited, beholdable, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, detectable, discernible, disclosed, due, evident, expected, exposed, exposed to view, foreseen, forthcoming, future, gathering, going to happen, hanging out, hoped-for, immanent, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, indwelling, inherent, insight, instant, long-expected, looming, lowering, lurking, manifest, menacing, naked, near, near at hand, nearing, noticeable, observable, on board, on deck, on hand, on the horizon, open, open to view, outcropping, overdue, overhanging, perceivable, perceptible, preparing, present, presumed, probable, promised, prospective, recognizable, revealed, seeable, showing, that will be, threatening, to be seen, to come, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, upcoming, viewable, visible, visual, waiting, within call, within reach, within sight, witnessable

• in vogue, all the rage, all the thing, current, fashionable, hip, in fashion, in style, mod, modern, new, newfashioned, popular, prevalent, smart, trendy, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute

• in with, affiliate, affiliated, allied, associate, associated, cabalistic, confederate, confederated, conspiratorial, corporate, coupled, enleagued, federate, federated, in, in cahoots, in favor, in league, in partnership, leagued, married, on good terms, on speaking terms, paired, partners with, teamed, wed, wedded

• in writing, autograph, autographic, calligraphic, chirographic, cursive, engrossed, flowing, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, holograph, holographic, in longhand, in shorthand, inscribed, italic, italicized, longhand, manuscript, on paper, penciled, penned, printed, running, scriptorial, scriptural, shorthand, stylographic, written

• in, a la mode, access, adit, advanced, air lock, among, an in, approach, at, avant-garde, by, chic, clout, contemporary, corridor, drag, entering, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, far out, fashionable, favor, favorable regard, fellow feeling, forward-looking, friendly relations, from, gangplank, gangway, good graces, good terms, good understanding, goodwill, hall, harmony, herein, in favor, in with, inbound, incoming, inflooding, inflowing, influence, ingoing, ingress, ingressive, inlet, inpouring, inside, inside of, intake, into, intrusive, invasive, inward, inward-bound, inwardly, inwards, irruptive, means of access, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, mutual regard, near, newfashioned, next to, now, on, on good terms, on speaking terms, open arms, open door, opening, passage, passageway, present-day, present-time, progressive, rapport, regard, respect, streamlined, swank, swish, sympathy, therein, to, toward, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, vestibule, way, way in, way out, with, with-it, within

• inability, disability, disablement, disqualification, imbecility, inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, legal incapacity, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity, minority, pedestrianism, rustiness, skill-lessness, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, untrainedness, wardship

• inaccessible, Olympian, aloof, antipodean, back of beyond, backward, bashful, beyond reach, blank, chilled, chilly, closed forever to, closed to, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, exclusive, expressionless, far, far-off, faraway, forbidding, frigid, frosty, godforsaken, guarded, hyperborean, icy, impassable, impassive, impenetrable, impersonal, impervious, introverted, lost to, modest, offish, out of reach, out-of-the-way, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, un-come-at-able, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, undiscoverable, unexpansive, ungenial, ungetatable, ungettable, unobtainable, unprocurable, unreachable, unsecurable, untouchable, withdrawn

• inaccordant, antagonistic, antipathetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, clashing, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cranky, cross, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, immiscible, in disagreement, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious, negative, out of accord, out of whack, poles apart, poles asunder, repugnant, separate, separated, several, unconformable, uncongenial, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

• inaccuracy, abstractionism, adulteration, allowance, amorphousness, approximation, blobbiness, blurriness, broadness, coloring, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deformation, deviation, disorder, distortion, erroneousness, exaggeration, expressionism, fallibility, false coloring, falsification, faultiness, fogginess, fuzziness, garbling, generality, haziness, hyperbole, ill-definedness, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, imprecision, impurity, inaccurateness, inadequacy, inadequateness, inchoateness, incoherence, incompleteness, incorrectness, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indistinctness, inexactitude, inexactness, injustice, lack, laxity, litotes, looseness, mediocrity, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mistiness, negligence, nonrealism, obscuration, obscurity, overdrawing, overstatement, patchiness, perversion, predictable error, probable error, shapelessness, shortage, shortcoming, sketchiness, slanting, standard deviation, sweepingness, tolerance, twisting, unclearness, unconscientiousness, uncorrectness, uncriticalness, understatement, undevelopment, unevenness, unexactingness, unfactualness, unfinicalness, unfussiness, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unperfectedness, unpreciseness, unpunctiliousness, unpunctuality, unrigorousness, unscrupulousness, unsoundness, vagueness, want

• inaccurate, adulterated, aleatoric, aleatory, all wet, amiss, amorphous, approximate, approximative, awry, blemished, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, cold, confused, damaged, defective, deficient, disordered, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, faulty, flawed, foggy, found wanting, fuzzy, general, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, illogical, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inadequate, inchoate, incoherent, incomplete, incorrect, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, lacking, lax, loose, makeshift, mediocre, mistaken, mixed, negligent, nonspecific, not perfect, obscure, off, orderless, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true, partial, patchy, random, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, short, sketchy, specious, stochastic, sweeping, unclear, unconscientious, uncritical, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undeveloped, uneven, unexacting, unfactual, unfinical, unfinished, unfussy, unmeticulous, unpainstaking, unparticular, unperfected, unplain, unprecise, unpunctilious, unpunctual, unrigorous, unscrupulous, unsound, unspecified, unthorough, untrue, vague, veiled, wanting, wrong

• inaction, dormancy, drift, fixation, fixity, hibernation, idleness, immobility, inactiveness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, lethargy, lull, motionlessness, quiescence, slackness, slothfulness, suspension, torpidity, underactivity

• inactivate, bugger, cripple, de-energize, debilitate, disable, disenable, drain, enfeeble, hamstring, hors de combat, incapacitate, kibosh, lame, maim, put, queer, queer the works, sabotage, spike, unfit, weaken, wing, wreck

• inactive, abeyant, apathetic, asleep, at a standstill, cataleptic, catatonic, contemplative, dead, deliberate, disengaged, do-nothing, dopey, dormant, dull, easy, flat, foul, groggy, hasteless, heavy, idle, immobile, in abeyance, in suspense, inanimate, indolent, inert, inoperative, jobless, lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, latent, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, meditative, motionless, neuter, neutral, ossified, out of work, pacific, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, peaceful, phlegmatic, placid, procrastinating, quiescent, quiet, quietist, quietistic, relaxed, resting, sedentary, serene, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, stagnant, stagnating, standing, standpat, static, stationary, still, supine, suspended, tame, torpid, tranquil, unactive, unaroused, unemployed, unhasty, unhurried, unmoving, unoccupied, vegetable, vegetative

• inactivity, a wise passiveness, comfort, contemplation, contemplative life, deliberateness, deliberation, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dolce far niente, dormancy, ease, fixation, fixity, hastelessness, hibernation, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, indolence, inertia, inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languidness, laziness, leisureliness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness, meditation, motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quiet, quietism, relaxation, relaxedness, repose, rest, restfulness, serenity, sleep, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, stillness, torpor, tranquillity, unbuttoned ease, unhastiness, unhurriedness, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

• inadequacy, adulteration, arrear, arrearage, arrears, arrestment, asymmetry, baseness, blemish, bug, callowness, catch, contrariety, crack, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, difference, disability, disablement, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, disqualification, dissatisfactoriness, drawback, erroneousness, failing, failure, fallibility, falling short, fault, faultiness, faute, fewness, flaw, foible, frailty, heterogeneity, hole, imbalance, imbecility, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impurity, inability, inaccuracy, inadeptness, inadequateness, inadmissibility, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incompleteness, incompletion, indefensibility, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, inequality, inequity, inexactitude, inexactness, infancy, inferiority, infirmity, injustice, insufficiency, insufficientness, intolerability, irregularity, kink, lack, legal incapacity, little problem, littleness, maladjustment, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, minority, none to spare, nonfulfillment, nonsatisfaction, nonuniformity, objectionability, odds, overbalance, patchiness, pedestrianism, pettiness, problem, rift, rustiness, scantiness, scrappiness, shabbiness, short measure, short supply, short weight, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, skill-lessness, slump, smallness, snag, something missing, subnormality, taint, thoughtlessness, too late, too little, triviality, unacceptability, unaptness, unbalance, uncleverness, undeftness, underage, underdevelopment, undesirability, undevelopment, undexterousness, undextrousness, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unperfectedness, unproficiency, unqualification, unsatisfactoriness, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, unsuitability, untenability, untrainedness, vulgarity, vulnerable place, want, wardship, weak link, weak point, weakness

• inadequate, adulterated, arrested, asymmetric, barren, base, blemished, bootless, callow, counterproductive, damaged, defective, deficient, disappointing, disheartening, disparate, displeasing, disproportionate, dissatisfactory, effete, emasculate, embryonic, empty, erroneous, etiolated, failing, fallible, fatuitous, fatuous, faulty, feckless, forceless, found wanting, fruitless, futile, half-assed, hypoplastic, ill-matched, ill-qualified, ill-sorted, immature, impaired, imperfect, impotent, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate, inane, inappreciable, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, inconsiderable, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexact, infant, inferior, inoperative, insufficient, invalid, invertebrate, irregular, lacking, little, makeshift, maladjusted, maladroit, mean, mediocre, minus, mismatched, missing, mixed, needing, not comparable, not enough, not equal to, not good enough, not in it, not perfect, not up to, nugacious, nugatory, odd, of no force, off, out of it, out of proportion, part, partial, patchy, petty, scant, scanty, scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, shabby, short, short of, shy, sketchy, skew, skewed, skimpy, small, spineless, sterile, too little, trivial, unable, unadapted, unadjusted, unavailing, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unequal, unequal to, unequipped, uneven, unfinished, unfit, unfitted, unfulfilling, ungratifying, unperfected, unqualified, unreached, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unskillful, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, useless, vain, wanting, weak

• inadequately, by halves, defectively, deficiently, dissatisfactorily, faultily, imperfectly, in half measures, in installments, inadeptly, inadmissibly, inaptly, incapably, incompetently, incompletely, inefficiently, ineptly, inexpertly, insufficiently, intolerably, objectionably, partially, poorly, unacceptably, unaptly, undeftly, undesirably, undexterously, unfacilely, unfitly, ungratifyingly, unproficiently, unsatisfactorily, unsatisfyingly, unskillfully, unsubstantially, unsuitably

• inadmissible, adrift, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, ethnocentric, exceptionable, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, extraneous, extrinsic, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-favored, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, immaterial, impertinent, impossible, improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incidental, inconsequent, indefensible, inept, infelicitous, insular, intolerable, irrelative, irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, narrow, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, objectionable, off the subject, 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, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, parochial, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, restrictive, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative, snobbish, unacceptable, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undesirable, unessential, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unqualified, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untenable, untimely, unwanted, unwelcome, xenophobic

• inadvertence, absentmindedness, balk, bevue, carelessness, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, failure, false move, false step, flightiness, flippancy, frivolousness, giddiness, heedlessness, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, laxity, laxness, levity, lightmindedness, loose thread, looseness, miscue, misstep, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonfeasance, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, obliviousness, omission, overlooking, oversight, permissiveness, poor stewardship, procrastination, regardlessness, remissness, shallowness, slackness, slight, slip, slipup, stumble, superficiality, thoughtlessness, trip, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unrigorousness, unwariness, unwatchfulness, wrong step

• inadvertent, arbitrary, automatic, capricious, careless, casual, culpably negligent, derelict, disregardant, disregardful, distracted, distrait, feckless, gut, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, indeliberate, indifferent, inobservant, involuntary, laissez-faire, lax, loose, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off-guard, overly permissive, permissive, procrastinating, reasonless, reflex, reflexive, regardless, relaxed, remiss, scamping, skimping, slack, slighting, slurring, snap, spontaneous, thoughtless, unadvised, uncalculated, uncalculating, uncaring, uncircumspect, unconscious, unconsidered, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, undevised, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unintended, unintentional, unmarking, unmeditated, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unplanned, unpremeditated, unpurposed, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unremarking, unrigorous, unstudied, unthinking, unthought, unthoughtful, unwary, unwatchful, unwilled, wrecking

• inadvertently, carelessly, heedlessly, inconsiderately, indeliberately, involuntarily, lightly, negligently, permissively, remissly, scampingly, skimpingly, slightingly, slurringly, thoughtlessly, unadvisedly, uncalculatedly, undesignedly, unintentionally, unpremeditatedly, unreasoningly, unrigorously, unthinkingly, unthoughtfully, without premeditation, without willing

• inadvisable, bad, careless, foolhardy, foolish, futile, harebrained, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, imprudent, inappropriate, inapt, incautious, incongruous, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, injudicious, inopportune, insensate, irrational, mal a propos, malapropos, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, out of place, pointless, rash, reasonless, reckless, senseless, shortsighted, thoughtless, unadvised, unbefitting, unconsidered, undesirable, undiscerning, unfit, unfitting, unforeseeing, unfortunate, unhappy, unmeet, unprofitable, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseasonable, unseeing, unseemly, unsensible, unsound, unsuitable, unthinking, unthoughtful, untimely, unwise, witless, wrong

• inalienable, bound up in, bound up with, deep-seated, esoteric, immanent, impartible, implanted, implicit, incommunicable, indefeasible, indissoluble, indivisible, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, inseparable, internal, intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, noncommunicable, noncontagious, noninfectious, private, resident, secret, subjective, unalienable, unchallengeable, undividable, unimpartable, unquestionable

• inalterable, assiduous, constant, continuing, diligent, dogged, enduring, faithful, fixed, immovable, immutable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, invariable, invincible, lasting, loyal, never-tiring, obstinate, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, resolute, sedulous, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, tireless, unabating, unalterable, unchangeable, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmodifiable, unmovable, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless

• inamorata, Dulcinea, beloved, best girl, doxy, dream girl, flame, gill, girl, girl friend, honey, jill, jo, lady, lady love, ladylove, lass, lassie, lover, mistress, old lady, paramour, steady, sweetheart, sweetie, truelove, woman

• inamorato, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Romeo, amoroso, beau, beloved, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, esquire, fellow, flame, gallant, gigolo, lady-killer, love-maker, lover, man, necker, old man, petter, philanderer, seducer, sheik, squire, steady, sugar daddy, swain, sweetheart, truelove, young man

• inane, absurd, aimless, airy, apish, arid, asinine, awkward, bare, barren, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blah, bland, blank, blankminded, bleached, bloodless, bonkers, bootless, brainless, buffoonish, callow, calm, catchpenny, characterless, clear, cockeyed, cold, colorless, counterproductive, crazy, credulous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dead, designless, devoid, dilute, diluted, dippy, doting, dotty, draggy, drearisome, dreary, driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, etiolated, fade, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feckless, flaky, flat, flavorless, flimsy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, fuddled, futile, gaga, garbled, gauche, goofy, green, groping, gruelly, gulled, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, idiotic, idle, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic, importless, inadequate, incogitant, indifferent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexcitable, inexperienced, infatuated, innocent, innocuous, inoperative, insane, insignificant, insipid, invalid, jejune, know-nothing, kooky, laughable, leaden, lifeless, light, loony, low-spirited, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, maudlin, meaningless, mild, milk-and-water, moronic, naive, namby-pamby, nescient, nirvanic, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsensical, nugacious, nugatory, null, null and void, nuts, nutty, oblivious, of no force, otiose, pale, pallid, pappy, passive, pedestrian, phatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, preposterous, pulpy, purportless, purposeless, quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, raw, relaxed, ridiculous, risible, sapless, sappy, savorless, scatterbrained, scrambled, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shallow, silly, simple, slender, slight, slow, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strange to, stuffy, stupid, superficial, tasteless, tedious, tentative, thin, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tranquil, trifling, trite, trivial, unacquainted, unapprized, unavailing, uncomprehending, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unflavored, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unlively, unmeaning, unoccupied, unposted, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrelieved, unripe, unsavory, unsignificant, unsure, unthinking, unversed, useless, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, void, wacky, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wet, white, windy, wishy-washy, with nothing inside, without content, witless, wooden

• inanimate, abiotic, animate, apathetic, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, azoic, benumbed, bereft of life, blase, bored, breathless, called home, carrion, cold, common gender, croaked, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, debilitated, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, dumb, enervated, exanimate, extinct, fallen, feminine, finished, food for worms, gender, gone, gone to glory, gone west, heavy, hebetudinous, immobile, inactive, inanimated, inert, insensate, insensible, insentient, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, martyred, masculine, moribund, motionless, mute, neuter, no more, nonconscious, nonliving, numb, passed on, phlegmatic, pooped, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, sainted, sated, senseless, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, smitten with death, somnolent, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, still, stillborn, stultified, supine, taken away, taken off, torpid, unanimated, unconscious, unfeeling, unmoving, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, world-weary

• inanity, absence of mind, absurdity, agnosticism, aimlessness, aridity, asininity, barrenness, battiness, big deal, blank, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, bloodlessness, bootlessness, brainlessness, buffoonery, callowness, calm of mind, characterlessness, clean slate, clownishness, colorlessness, counterproductiveness, counterproductivity, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, dead letter, deadness, desipience, dismalness, dottiness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, eccentricity, effeteness, emptiness, emptiness of mind, empty sound, empty space, empty-headedness, etiolation, failure, fallow mind, fatuity, fatuousness, fecklessness, flatness, flavorlessness, flimsiness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness, futility, giddiness, goofiness, greenhornism, greenness, heaviness, hiatus of learning, hollowness, idiocy, idleness, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, imbecility, impotence, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, ineptitude, inexcitability, inexperience, innocence, insanity, insignificance, insipidity, insipidness, invalidity, jejuneness, jejunity, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, leadenness, levity, lifelessness, lightness, lowness of spirit, lunacy, madness, meaninglessness, mental blankness, mental void, mere noise, mildness, mindlessness, nescience, niaiserie, nirvana, noise, nonsensicality, nothing, nothingness, nugacity, nullity, nuttiness, oblivion, obscurantism, otiosity, paleness, pallor, passivity, phatic communion, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, preposterousness, profitlessness, purposelessness, queerness, quietism, rat race, rawness, saplessness, sappiness, savorlessness, screwiness, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, simpleness, simplicity, slenderness, slightness, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, staleness, sterility, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, stupidity, superficiality, tabula rasa, tastelessness, tediousness, the absurd, thinness, thoughtfreeness, thoughtlessness, tranquillity, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, unacquaintance, unfamiliarity, unintelligence, uninterestingness, unknowing, unknowingness, unliveliness, unmeaningness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unripeness, unsavoriness, unsignificancy, uselessness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity, vapidness, vicious circle, void, wackiness, weakness, weirdness, wishy-washiness, witlessness, woodenness, worthlessness, zaniness, zanyism

• inappetence, acedia, aloofness, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, comatoseness, desirelessness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, dullness, heartlessness, hebetude, hopelessness, indifference, insouciance, lack of appetite, languidness, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, lovelessness, nirvana, nonchalance, numbness, passionlessness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, resignation, resignedness, sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, unambitiousness, unconcern, undesirousness, uneagerness, withdrawnness

• inapplicable, adrift, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, functionless, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, immaterial, impertinent, improper, in disrepair, inadmissible, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incidental, inconsequent, inept, infelicitous, inoperable, inoperative, irrelative, irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonfunctional, nonutilitarian, not at issue, off base, off the subject, otiose, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of order, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, out of whack, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unconducive, unconnected, unemployable, unessential, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unhelpful, unqualified, unrelated, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, unusable, unworkable

• inapposite, adrift, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, immaterial, impertinent, improper, inadmissible, inapplicable, inappropriate, inapt, incidental, inconsequent, inept, infelicitous, irrelative, irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, off the subject, 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, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unessential, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unqualified, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable

• inappreciable, atomic, back-burner, corpuscular, dinky, dispensable, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, immaterial, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indiscernible, inessential, inferior, infinitesimal, insensible, insignificant, insufficient, intangible, invisible, irrelevant, little, microcosmic, microscopic, minor, minute, molecular, negligible, nonessential, not vital, petit, scanty, scrimpy, skimpy, small, subatomic, technical, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unessential, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, unobservable, unperceivable, unseeable

• inappropriate, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, adrift, atrocious, bad, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, chintzy, criminal, delinquent, deviant, discordant, disgraceful, evil, excessive, extraneous, extrinsic, futile, hardly the thing, ignominious, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-seasoned, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, illegal, immaterial, impertinent, impolitic, improper, in bad taste, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inapt, inauspicious, incidental, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsonant, inconvenient, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, inept, inexpedient, infamous, infelicitous, inharmonious, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelative, irrelevant, late, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, mistimed, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, not done, not the thing, off base, off the subject, 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, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, premature, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, tasteless, terrible, too late, too soon, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncongenial, undesirable, undignified, undue, unessential, unfavorable, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, ungenteel, unhandy, unhappy, unharmonious, unlawful, unlucky, unmeet, unprofitable, unpropitious, unqualified, unready, unrighteous, unripe, unseasonable, unseemly, unstable, unsuitable, unsuited, untasteful, untimely, untoward, unwise, vulgar, wicked, wrong, wrongful

• inappropriateness, Babbittry, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, bad taste, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, criminality, delinquency, deviance, deviancy, disentitlement, empty claim, empty title, excess, false claim, futility, high camp, illegality, impoliticalness, impoliticness, improperness, impropriety, inadmissibility, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappositeness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, infraction, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, invalid claim, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kitsch, lack of claim, lateness, low camp, maladjustment, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, no claim, philistinism, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prematurity, sinfulness, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, uncongeniality, undeservedness, undeservingness, undesirability, undueness, unentitledness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unmeritedness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unpropitiousness, unrighteousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwiseness, uselessness, violation, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wickedness, worthlessness, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness

• inapt, artless, awkward, bad, banal, clumsy, flat, futile, gauche, half-assed, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, inadept, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inattentive, incongruous, inefficient, inept, inexpedient, inexpert, infelicitous, inopportune, insipid, irrelevant, jejune, mal a propos, maladjusted, maladroit, malapropos, mediocre, 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, pedestrian, poor, skill-less, thoughtless, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undeft, undesirable, undexterous, undextrous, undue, unfacile, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unintelligent, unmeet, unproficient, unprofitable, unqualified, unseasonable, unseemly, unskillful, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, unwise, wrong

• inaptitude, abnormality, anomaly, futility, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impropriety, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadmissibility, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, inopportuneness, irrelevance, irrelevancy, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, pedestrianism, rustiness, skill-lessness, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, uncongeniality, undeftness, undesirability, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unintelligence, unmeetness, unproficiency, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unschooledness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, untimeliness, untrainedness, unwiseness, uselessness, worthlessness, wrongness

• inarticulate, Greek to one, ambiguous, anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, bashful, beyond understanding, blurred, breathless, breathy, choked, choking, confused, conscious, coy, croaking, demure, digressive, discursive, disjointed, drawling, drawly, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dysphonic, faltering, garbled, guttural, halting, harsh, hawking, hesitating, hoarse, illogical, impenetrable, implicit, implied, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, indistinct, inferred, inscrutable, irrational, jumbled, lisping, maundering, mispronounced, mixed-up, mousy, muddled, muffled, mum, mumbled, mumbling, mute, muzzy, nasal, numinous, past comprehension, quavering, rambling, scrambled, self-conscious, shaking, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shy, silent, skittish, snuffling, speechless, stammering, stifled, strangled, stricken dumb, thick, throaty, timid, timorous, tongue-tied, tongueless, tremulous, twangy, unclear, unconnected, undeclared, unexpressed, unfathomable, unintelligible, unknowable, unsaid, unsearchable, unspoken, unuttered, velar, voiceless, wild, wordless

• inartificial, arcadian, artless, authentic, bona fide, bucolic, candid, card-carrying, dinkum, direct, following the letter, genuine, good, homespun, honest, honest-to-God, in the raw, ingenuous, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, naive, native, natural, naturalistic, naturelike, original, pastoral, pristine, pure, real, realistic, rightful, rural, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sterling, straightforward, sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unartificial, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating, undistorted, unembellished, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unromantic, unschooled, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unspoiled, unstudied, unsullied, unsynthetic, untouched, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, virgin, virginal, word-for-word

• inasmuch as, as, as long as, as things go, because, being, being as how, cause, considering, for, forasmuch as, in that, insofar as, insomuch as, now, parce que, seeing as how, seeing that, since, whereas

• inattention, accidia, acedia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, callowness, carelessness, casualness, childishness, culpa, culpable negligence, default, delinquency, dereliction, detachment, disconformity, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, distractedness, distraction, diversion, divided attention, easygoingness, failure, heedlessness, immaturity, imprudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, inadvisability, inconsideration, incuriosity, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscrimination, inexcitability, inexpedience, injudiciousness, inobservance, insouciance, irrationality, laches, lack of affect, lackadaisicalness, laissez-faire, lapse, laxity, laxness, listlessness, looseness, mindlessness, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonadherence, nonchalance, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, omission, overlooking, oversight, permissiveness, pococurantism, pompousness, poor stewardship, procrastination, puerility, reasonlessness, recklessness, regardlessness, remissness, senselessness, slackness, slight, sloth, stuffiness, thoughtlessness, unanxiousness, unconcern, unintelligence, unmindfulness, unobservance, unreason, unreasonableness, unrigorousness, unsensibleness, unsolicitousness, unsoundness, unthoughtfulness, unwisdom, unwiseness, withdrawal of attention, witlessness

• inattentive, apathetic, artless, ataractic, blase, careless, casual, culpably negligent, derelict, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distracted, distrait, distraught, easygoing, half-assed, heedless, inadept, inadvertent, inapt, inconstant, incurious, indifferent, inefficient, inept, inexcitable, inexpert, inobservant, insouciant, lackadaisical, laissez-faire, lax, listless, loose, mediocre, mindless, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nonadherent, nonchalant, noncompliant, nonconforming, noninterfering, nonobservant, nonrestrictive, off-guard, overly permissive, pedestrian, perfunctory, permissive, pococurante, poor, procrastinating, reckless, regardless, relaxed, remiss, scamping, skill-less, skimping, slack, slighting, slurring, thoughtless, turned-off, unanxious, unapt, uncircumspect, uncompliant, unconcerned, unconforming, undeft, undexterous, undextrous, undiscriminating, unfacile, unfaithful, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unintelligent, uninterested, unloyal, unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unperceiving, unproficient, unremarking, unrigorous, unskillful, unsolicitous, untrue, unwary, unwatchful

• inaudible, echoless, hush as death, hushed, mousy, noiseless, quiescent, quiet, silent, soundless, still, still as death, stilly, subaudible, unarticulated, unhearable, unpronounced, unsounded, unuttered, unvocalized, unvoiced, whist

• inaugural, abecedarian, aboriginal, address, advanced, after-dinner speech, allocution, antecedent, antenatal, anterior, autochthonous, avant-garde, baccalaureate service, beginning, budding, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, chalk talk, chief, commencement, convocation, creative, debate, declamation, diatribe, elemental, elementary, embryonic, empty formality, eulogy, exercise, exercises, exhortation, exordial, exploratory, fetal, filibuster, first, foremost, forensic, forensic address, formal, formal speech, formality, formative, foundational, function, fundamental, funeral oration, gestatory, graduation, graduation exercises, harangue, headmost, hortatory address, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural address, inauguration, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, induction, infant, infantile, initial, initiation, initiative, initiatory, installation, introductory, invective, inventive, investiture, jeremiad, leading, liturgy, mummery, nascent, natal, observance, office, oration, original, parturient, pep talk, performance, peroration, philippic, pitch, postnatal, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, prefatory, pregnant, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, prenatal, preparatory, prepared speech, prepared text, prevenient, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, prior, procreative, proemial, propaedeutic, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, religious ceremony, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, rudimental, rudimentary, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, service, set speech, solemnity, solemnization, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, ur, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address

• inaugurate, anoint, author, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broach, cause, chair, christen, coin, commence, conceive, constitute, create, crown, do, effect, effectuate, engender, enlist, enroll, enter, enthrone, establish, father, float, form, found, generate, gestate, get off, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, incept, induct, initiate, innovate, install, instate, institute, introduce, invent, invest, jump off, kick off, launch, lift up, make, materialize, mint, neologize, neoterize, occasion, open, ordain, organize, originate, place, place in office, produce, put in, raise, realize, renew, renovate, ring in, set afloat, set agoing, set on foot, set up, sign on, sign up, sire, start, start going, start up, throne, turn on, usher in, work

• inauguration, accedence, acceptance, accession, admission, admittance, anchorage, baccalaureate service, baptism, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, colonization, coming out, commencement, constitution, convocation, coronation, curtain raiser, debut, effectuation, embarkation, embarkment, empty formality, enlistment, enrollment, enthronement, establishment, exercise, exercises, first appearance, fixation, floating, flotation, formal, formality, formation, foundation, function, graduation, graduation exercises, immission, inaugural, inaugural address, inception, induction, initiation, installation, installment, instatement, institution, introduction, intromission, investiture, launching, liturgy, lodgment, maiden speech, materialization, mooring, mummery, observance, office, opener, ordination, organization, peopling, performance, placement, plantation, population, preliminary, realization, religious ceremony, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, service, setting-up, settlement, settling, solemnity, solemnization, taking office, unveiling

• inauspicious, apocalyptic, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, criminal, dark, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, foreboding, fortuneless, funest, gloomy, hapless, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-timed, improper, in adverse circumstances, inaccurate, inappropriate, inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inferior, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, invalid, irrelevant, late, lowering, luckless, mal a propos, malapropos, malevolent, menacing, mistimed, of evil portent, off base, ominous, out of line, out of luck, out of phase, out of time, peccant, planet-struck, portending, portentous, premature, sad, short of luck, sinful, sinister, somber, star-crossed, threatening, too late, too soon, unbefitting, unblessed, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unhealthy, unkind, unlucky, unpleasant, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unskillful, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, vicious, wicked, wrong

• inauthentic, absonant, contradictory, contrary to reason, fallacious, faulty, flawed, garbled, illogical, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, invalid, irrational, loose, miscited, misquoted, misreported, misstated, nonscientific, not following, paralogical, reasonless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, spurious, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unconnected, unfounded, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unreliable, unscientific, without reason

• inborn, atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, deep-rooted, deep-seated, genetic, hereditary, in the blood, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, physical, primal, temperamental, tersely

• inbred, atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, crossbred, endogamic, endogamous, exogamic, exogamous, genetic, hereditary, impregnated, in the blood, inborn, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, inseminated, instinctive, instinctual, linebred, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, outbred, physical, primal, temperamental

• inbreed, beget, breed, breed true, copulate, crossbreed, engender, father, generate, get, make love, mother, multiply, outbreed, procreate, proliferate, propagate, reproduce in kind, sire

• incalculable, able, agnostic, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, ambiguous, boundless, capricious, chancy, changeable, countless, dicey, doubting, endless, enigmatic, equivocal, erratic, eternal, exhaustless, extending everywhere, fickle, hesitant, hesitating, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense, incognizable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indemonstrable, inestimable, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminable, interminate, irresolute, limitless, measureless, mysterious, no end of, numberless, perpetual, polysemous, puzzling, sealed, shoreless, skeptical, strange, sumless, surreptitiously, termless, touch-and-go, unaccountable, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeknown, unbounded, uncertain, uncharted, uncircumscribed, unclassified, unconfirmable, unconvinced, uncountable, uncounted, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivinable, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomable, unfathomed, unforeseeable, unheard, unheard-of, unidentified, uninvestigated, universal, unknowable, unknown, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unperceived, unpersuaded, unplumbed, unpredictable, unprovable, unrevealed, unsure, unsuspected, untold, untouched, unverifiable, variable, virgin, wavering, whimsical, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number

• incandesce, bake, be bright, be in heat, beacon, beam, bedazzle, blaze, blind, bloom, boil, broil, burn, choke, combust, cook, daze, dazzle, diffuse light, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flash, flicker, flush, fry, fulgurate, gasp, give light, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glow, luster, pant, parch, radiate, radiate heat, roast, scald, scorch, seethe, send out rays, shimmer with heat, shine, shine brightly, shoot, shoot out rays, simmer, smolder, smother, spark, steam, stew, stifle, suffocate, sweat, swelter, toast

• incandescence, afterglow, air glow, bloom, blush, candescence, fieriness, flush, gleam, glint, gloss, glow, hectic, hectic flush, luster, redness, rosiness, sheen, shine, shininess, shining light, skylight, sunset glow, whiteness

• incandescent, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, beaming, beamy, blazing, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, brilliant, burning, candent, candescent, comburent, conflagrant, effulgent, fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushing, fulgent, fuming, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, guttering, ignescent, ignited, illuminant, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, inflamed, irradiative, kindled, lambent, lamping, light as day, live, living, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, on fire, orient, radiant, red-hot, reeking, refulgent, rutilant, rutilous, scintillant, scintillating, shining, shiny, smoking, smoldering, sparking, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, unextinguished, unquenched, white-hot

• incantation, abracadabra, bewitchment, conjuration, conjurement, devil, enchantment, evocation, exorcisation, exorcism, exsufflation, hocus-pocus, invocation, magic formula, magic words, mumbo jumbo, necromancy, open sesame, rune, sorcery, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry

• incapability, ad lib, disability, disablement, disqualification, extemporaneousness, imbecility, improvisation, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, lack of preparation, legal incapacity, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity, minority, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, pedestrianism, planlessness, rustiness, skill-lessness, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unpreparedness, unproficiency, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, untrainedness, unworkmanlike, vulnerability, wardship

• incapable, amputee, cripple, defective, deformity, disqualified, dull tool, greenhorn, handicapped person, idiot, ill-equipped, ill-fitted, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-qualified, imbecile, impervious to, inadequate, incapable of, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, inept, inferior, maladjusted, mediocrity, no conjuror, not equal to, not up to, paralytic, paraplegic, quadriplegic, the crippled, the handicapped, unable, unable to, unadapted, unadjusted, unarmed, unendowed, unequal to, unequipped, unfit, unfitted, ungifted, unprovided, unqualified, unsuited, untalented

• incapacitate, afflict, bugger, castrate, cripple, de-energize, deactivate, debilitate, derange, devitalize, disable, disarm, disenable, disorder, drain, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, hobble, hors de combat, hospitalize, immobilize, impair, inactivate, indispose, invalid, kibosh, lame, lay up, maim, prostrate, put, queer, queer the works, reduce, sabotage, sicken, spike, unfit, weaken, wing, wound, wreck

• incapacitated, ausgespielt, bad, burned-out, castrated, crippled, devitalized, disabled, disarmed, disqualified, drained, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, eviscerated, exhausted, fatigued, game, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, hobbling, hog-tied, invalidated, lame, limping, maimed, paralyzed, played out, prostrate, run-down, sapped, spavined, spent, used up, wasted, weakened, worn, worn-out

• incapacity, Urdummheit, brainlessness, caducity, decrepitude, disability, disablement, disqualification, foolishness, ignorance, imbecility, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacitation, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, infirmity, insipidity, instability, insufficiency, invalidism, irrationality, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, legal incapacity, low IQ, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity, mental weakness, mindlessness, minority, pedestrianism, primal stupidity, reasonlessness, ricketiness, rustiness, senility, senselessness, shakiness, skill-lessness, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfirmness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsturdiness, unsubstantiality, untrainedness, unwisdom, unwiseness, vapidity, wardship, wateriness, wishy-washiness, witlessness

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

• incarcerated, 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, imprisoned, in captivity, in durance vile, in prison, in stir, jailed, leaguered, locked up, mewed, paled, penned, pent-up, quarantined, railed, restrained, shut-in, walled, walled-in

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

• incarnate, Christlike, Christly, adumbrate, affect, atavistic, betoken, bodily, body, body forth, born, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, celestial, coeval, concretize, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, corporealize, corporify, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, display, divine, divulge, dramatize, embodied, embody, empyrean, enact, entify, evidence, evince, exemplify, exhibit, expose to view, express, exteriorize, externalize, figure, flaunt, flourish, foreshadow, genetic, give sign, give token, godlike, godly, heavenly, hereditary, highlight, hypostatize, illuminate, illustrate, image, impersonate, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnated, incorporate, incorporated, indicate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, intercessional, intercessive, lend substance to, made flesh, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, mediative, mediatory, mirror, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, parade, perform, personate, personify, physical, prefigure, present, pretypify, primal, produce, project, propitiative, propitiatory, realize, redemptive, reembody, reflect, reify, reincarnate, represent, reveal, roll out, salvational, self-existent, set forth, shadow, shadow forth, show, show forth, solidify, spotlight, substantialize, substantiate, substantify, superhuman, supernatural, temperamental, token, transcendent, transmigrate, trot out, unfold, wave

• incarnation, Christophany, Satanophany, acting, angelophany, aping, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, characterization, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, concretization, corporealization, disclosure, dissemination, dumb show, embodiment, emergence, enacting, enactment, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, forthcoming, imitation, impersonation, incorporation, indication, issuance, manifestation, masquerade, materialization, materializing, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, occurrence, opening, pantomime, pantomiming, performance, performing, personation, personification, playing, pneumatophany, portrayal, posing, presentation, proof, publication, realization, reembodiment, reification, reincarnation, revelation, rise, rising, showing, showing forth, substantiation, theophany, transmigration, unfolding, unfoldment, wild

• incautious, asleep, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, goofing off, hubristic, improvident, imprudent, impudent, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, napping, nodding, off-guard, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, rash, sleeping, temerarious, unalert, uncautious, unchary, unguarded, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful

• incendiary, Mafioso, Young Turk, agent provocateur, agitational, agitative, agitator, agitprop, arsonist, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bomber, brute, catalyst, demagogue, demon, devil, dragon, enkindling, exciter, fiend, fire worshiper, fire-eater, firebrand, firebug, fomenter, fomenting, fury, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incentive, inciter, inciting, incitive, inflamer, inflaming, inflammative, inflammatory, instigating, instigative, instigator, killer, kindling, lighting, mad dog, madcap, mischief-maker, monster, mugger, provocateur, provoker, pyrolater, pyromaniac, pyrophile, rabble-rouser, rabble-rousing, rapist, revolutionary, ringleader, rouser, savage, seditionary, seditionist, she-wolf, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, torch, tough, tough guy, troublemaker, ugly customer, urger, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch, wolf

• incense, adulation, agalloch, agape, aggravate, agitate, aloeswood, annoy, aroma, aromatize, arouse, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, awake, awaken, balminess, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, blandishment, blandness, blarney, blow the coals, blow up, bouquet, bristle, bunkum, burnt offering, butter, cajolement, cajolery, calambac, call forth, call up, celebration, cense, chafe, circumcision, collection, compliment, confession, confirmation, drink offering, embalm, embitter, enkindle, enrage, ex voto offering, exasperate, excite, eyewash, fair words, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, fawning, feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, flattery, foment, fragrance, fragrancy, frankincense, frenzy, fret, fruitiness, fulsomeness, fumigate, glibness, grease, heat, heat up, heave offering, hecatomb, high celebration, holocaust, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, huff, human sacrifice, immolation, impassion, incite, infanticide, inflame, infuriate, instigate, invocation, invocation of saints, ire, irritate, joss stick, key up, kindle, kiss of peace, lather up, lesser litany, libation, light the fuse, light up, lignaloes, linaloa, litany, love feast, lustration, mactation, mad, madden, miff, move, muskiness, nettle, nosegay, oblation, odor, odorize, offering, offertory, oil, oiliness, olibanum, overexcite, palaver, pastille, pax, peace offering, peeve, perfume, piacular offering, pique, praise, pretty lies, processional, provoke, put up to, rally, rankle, reciting the rosary, redolence, rile, roil, rouse, ruffle, sacramental offering, sacrifice, sandalwood, scapegoat, scent, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, set up, sic on, smoothness, smugness, soap, soft soap, soft words, spice, spiciness, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, suaveness, suavity, summon up, suttee, sutteeism, sweet nothings, sweet savor, sweet smell, sweet talk, sweet words, sycophancy, telling of beads, thank offering, the confessional, the confessionary, thurify, tickle, turn on, umbrage, unctuousness, vex, votive offering, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, wheedling, whet, whip up, whole offering, work into, work up

• incensed, angered, angry, browned-off, cross, indignant, irate, ireful, livid, mad, pissed, pissed-off, riled up, sore, ticked off, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up

• incensory, atomizer, censer, fumigator, incense burner, odorator, odorizer, parfumoir, perfumer, pomander, potpourri, pouncet-box, purse atomizer, sachet, scent bag, scent ball, scent bottle, scent box, scenter, smelling bottle, spray, thurible, vinaigrette

• incentive, agitational, agitative, bait, bribe, carrot, catalyst, clout, compulsion, drive, driving force, encouragement, enticement, fillip, fomenting, goad, impellent, impelling force, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incendiary, incitement, inciting, incitive, inducement, inflammatory, instigating, instigative, interest, invitation, irresistible force, lure, moment, momentum, motivation, motive power, payment, percentage, persuasive, power, prod, profit, propulsion, provocation, rabble-rousing, reward, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, sweetener, sweetening, thrust, whet

• inception, babyhood, beginning, beginnings, birth, childhood, commencement, conception, constitution, cradle, derivation, effectuation, establishment, formation, foundation, fountain, freshman year, genesis, grass roots, head, inauguration, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, installation, institution, materialization, nascence, nascency, nativity, organization, origin, original, origination, parturition, pregnancy, provenance, provenience, radical, radix, realization, rise, root, setting-up, source, stem, stock, taproot, well, wellspring, whence, youth

• inceptive, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, beginning, budding, creative, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fetal, formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, nascent, natal, original, parturient, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, rudimental, rudimentary, ur, wonder

• incertitude, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness, erraticism, erraticness, fickleness, hesitancy, hesitation, incalculability, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, irresolution, luck, randomness, suspense, suspensefulness, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, whimsicality

• incessancy, ceaselessness, chattering, coeternity, consecutiveness, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuance, continuity, continuousness, durability, endlessness, equilibrium, eternalness, eternity, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness, featurelessness, foreverness, fullness, gaplessness, immutability, indestructibility, infinite duration, infinity, interminability, jointlessness, monotony, never-endingness, noninterruption, oscillation, perdurability, perenniality, perennialness, permanence, perpetualness, perpetuity, plenitude, pulsation, quick fire, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, regularity, repetition, seamlessness, sempiternity, smoothness, stability, staccato, steadiness, steady state, stuttering, successiveness, sustainment, tattoo, timelessness, unbrokenness, unceasingness, undifferentiation, uniformity, unintermission, unintermittedness, uninterruptedness, uninterruption, unrelievedness, vibration

• incessant, ageless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, chattering, coeternal, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, ever-recurring, everlasting, everliving, featureless, frequent, gapless, haunting, immediate, immemorial, indestructible, infinite, interminable, joined, jointless, linked, machine gun, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, oscillating, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, pulsating, rapid, reappearing, recurrent, recurring, regular, repeated, repetitive, returning, revenant, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth, stable, staccato, steady, straight, stuttering, sustained, thematic, thick-coming, timeless, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, without end

• incessantly, ad infinitum, again and again, always, at a stretch, at all times, ceaselessly, connectedly, constantly, continually, continuously, cumulatively, cyclically, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, endlessly, eternally, ever, ever and anon, everlastingly, every day, every hour, every moment, hour after hour, hourly, in perpetuity, indestructibly, infinitely, interminably, monotonously, month after month, never-endingly, night and day, on a stretch, on and on, on end, perdurably, perennially, permanently, perpetually, rapidly, regularly, repetitively, right along, round the clock, steadily, sustainedly, time without end, together, unbrokenly, unceasingly, unendingly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unrelievedly, unvaryingly, without a break, without cease, without end, without letup, without stopping, world without end, year after year

• incest, active algolagnia, adultery, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, autoeroticism, bisexuality, concubinage, coprophilia, criminal conversation, cuckoldry, exhibitionism, extracurricular sex, extramarital relations, fetishism, fornication, free love, free-lovism, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, incestuousness, lesbianism, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, premarital relations, premarital sex, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, swinging both ways, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, voyeurism, zooerastia, zoophilia

• inch, ace, amble, bit, bowshot, brief span, claudicate, close quarters, close range, crack, crawl, creep, crowd, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, drive on, earreach, earshot, forge ahead, go dead slow, go on tiptoe, go slow, grovel, gumshoe, gunshot, hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hobble, idle, inch along, inch forward, jog-trot, laze, limp, little, little ways, mosey, muddle through, nightwalk, pad, pistol shot, poke, poke along, press forward, press on, prowl, push, push forward, push on, pussyfoot, saunter, scrabble, scramble, short distance, short piece, short way, shuffle along, sidle, slink, snake, sneak, span, spitting distance, stagger along, steal, steal along, step, stroll, tippytoe, tiptoe, toddle, toddle along, totter along, traipse, waddle, walk, worm, worm along

• inchmeal, bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by slow degrees, by snatches, degreewise, drop by drop, foot by foot, gradatim, grade by grade, gradually, in detail, in driblets, in installments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, inch by inch, little by little, part by part, piece by piece, piecemeal, slowly, step by step

• inchoate, abecedarian, aboriginal, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, antenatal, autochthonous, baggy, beginning, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, budding, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, confused, creative, desultory, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, elemental, elementary, embryonic, erratic, featureless, fetal, fitful, foggy, formative, formless, foundational, frivolous, fundamental, fuzzy, general, gestatory, gratuitous, haphazard, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaccurate, inaugural, inceptive, inchoative, incipient, incoherent, incunabular, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infant, infantile, inform, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, irregular, kaleidoscopic, kindred, lax, loose, lumpen, meaningless, misshapen, misty, nascent, natal, nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, orderless, original, parturient, planless, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, promiscuous, random, rudimental, rudimentary, senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, sweeping, systemless, unarranged, unclassified, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unsorted, unspecified, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, ur, vague, veiled, wandering

• incidence, accident, amount, coming to be, common occurrence, commonness, contingency, contingent, degree, event, eventuality, eventuation, extent, frequence, frequency, habitualness, materialization, number, occurrence, oftenness, prevalence, quantity, rate, realization, relative incidence, routineness, usualness

• incident, action, adventure, affair, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, catastrophe, characterization, circumstance, color, commotion, complication, condition, conjuncture, contingency, continuity, contrivance, denouement, design, development, device, disturbance, do, episode, event, eventuality, experience, fable, fact, falling action, fracas, gimmick, hap, happening, happenstance, juncture, line, local color, matter of fact, mood, motif, movement, mythos, occasion, occurrence, particular, peripeteia, phenomenon, plan, plot, proceeding, reality, recognition, rising action, scene, scheme, secondary plot, set-to, skirmish, slant, story, structure, subject, subplot, switch, thematic development, theme, to-do, tone, topic, turn of events, twist, upset

• incidental, accessory, acciaccatura, accident, accidental, accompanying, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, ado, adrift, adscititious, adventitious, afloat, afoot, aleatory, ancillary, appendage, appoggiatura, appurtenance, appurtenant, arabesque, article, ascititious, aspect, auxiliary, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, by-the-way, cadence, cadenza, case, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, circumstantial, collateral, coloratura, conditional, contingency, contingent, count, current, datum, destinal, detail, dicey, division, doing, element, embellishment, eventuating, extra, extraneous, extrinsic, facet, fact, factor, fatal, fatidic, fioritura, flight, flourish, fluky, fortuitous, going on, grace, grace note, haphazard, happening, happenstance, iffy, immaterial, impertinent, in hand, in the wind, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental note, inconsequent, inconsequential, indeterminate, inessential, insignificant, instance, irrelative, irrelevant, item, lesser, long mordent, matter, mere chance, minor, minor detail, minutia, minutiae, mordent, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, not-self, occasional, occurring, odd, off, off the subject, on, on foot, ongoing, ornament, other, out-of-the-way, paltry, parenthetical, part-time, particular, passage, passing, petty, point, pralltriller, prevailing, prevalent, provisional, random, regard, respect, resultant, risky, roulade, run, secondary, serendipitous, side, single mordent, spare, subordinate, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, taking place, thing, trifling, trivial, turn, uncaused, under way, undetermined, unessential, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unimportant, unlooked-for, unplanned, unpredictable

• incidentally, a propos, accidentally, apropos, apropos of, as it chanced, by a fluke, by accident, by chance, by good fortune, by hazard, by the by, by the way, casually, en passant, for example, for some reason, fortuitously, in passing, in some way, par exemple, parenthetically, perchance, somehow, somehow or other, speaking of, unpredictably

• incinerate, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bring down, bring to ruin, burn, burn down, burn to death, burn up, condemn, confound, consume, cremate, cut down, cut to pieces, damn, deal a deathblow, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, disintegrate, dissolve, drop, engorge, fell, frag, give the quietus, gobble, gobble up, gun down, gut, gut with fire, havoc, incendiarize, jugulate, lapidate, lay in ruins, lay low, lay waste, pistol, poleax, ravage, reduce to ashes, riddle, ruin, ruinate, shipwreck, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, stab to death, stone, stone to death, strike dead, swallow up, throw into disorder, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• incineration, blazing, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation, cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, flaming, funeral pile, oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyre, pyrolysis, reduction to ashes, refining, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation, singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, vesication

• incipiency, babyhood, beginnings, birth, childhood, cradle, freshman year, genesis, inception, inchoation, incipience, incunabula, infancy, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pregnancy, youth

• incipient, Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, beginning, budding, creative, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elemental, elementary, elfin, embryonic, fetal, formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, meager, midget, nanoid, nascent, natal, original, parturient, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, squat, stunted, undersize, undersized, ur, wizened

• incise, Vandyke, abrade, amputate, autolithograph, ax, bark, be a printmaker, bisect, blaze, blemish, bloody, book, breach, break, broach, burn, butcher, calendar, canal, canalize, carve, catalog, chafe, chalk, chalk up, chamfer, channel, character, check, check in, chink, chip, chisel, chop, chronicle, claw, cleave, corrugate, crack, craze, crease, crenellate, crenulate, crevasse, cribble, crimp, crosshatch, cut, cut apart, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, dado, dichotomize, dike, dispart, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, docket, enchase, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, excise, file, fill out, fissure, flute, fly open, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, furrow, gall, gap, gash, goffer, gouge, grave, groove, gully, hack, halve, hatch, hew, hurt, impanel, indent, index, injure, inscribe, insert, jag, jigsaw, jot down, knurl, lacerate, lance, lay open, line, list, lithograph, log, machicolate, maim, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make mincemeat of, make out, make prints, mark, mark down, matriculate, maul, mill, minute, mutilate, nick, notch, note, note down, ope, open, open up, pare, part, picot, pierce, pink, place upon record, pleat, plow, poll, post, post up, print, prune, puncture, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, rabbet, record, reduce to writing, register, rend, rent, rifle, rift, rip, rive, run, rupture, rut, savage, saw, scald, scallop, scarify, scissor, scorch, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, sculpture, separate, serrate, set down, sever, skin, slash, slice, slit, slot, snip, split, sprain, spread, spread out, spring open, stab, stick, stipple, strain, streak, striate, sunder, swing open, tabulate, take down, tap, tape, tape-record, tear, tear open, throw open, tool, tooth, traumatize, trench, trough, videotape, whittle, wound, wrench, wrinkle, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

• incised, battlemented, canaliculate, canaliculated, carved, chamfered, channeled, chopped, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, creased, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, crimped, cut, dadoed, dentate, dentated, embrasured, enchased, engraved, erose, fluted, furrowed, gashed, glyphic, goffered, gouged, graved, graven, grooved, impressed, imprinted, indented, inscribed, insculptured, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, lined, marked, nicked, notched, pleated, printed, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, rutted, rutty, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scored, scratched, sculptured, serrate, serrated, serrulated, slit, stamped, striated, sulcate, sulcated, tooled, toothed, troughed, wrinkled

• incision, abrasion, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bezel, blaze, blemish, box canyon, breach, break, burn, burr, canyon, cavity, chafe, chamfer, chap, chase, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, chiseling, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, concussion, corrugation, coulee, couloir, crack, crackle, cranny, craze, crena, crevasse, crevice, cross-hatching, cut, cwm, dado, defile, dell, demitint, depression, dike, ditch, donga, draw, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, excavation, fault, fissure, flash burn, flaw, flume, flute, fluting, fracture, fray, frazzle, furrow, gall, gap, gape, gash, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, gorge, gouge, graving, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, half tint, hatching, hole, hurt, indentation, injury, inscript, inscription, jag, jog, joggle, joint, kerf, kloof, laceration, leak, lesion, line, lining, marking, microgroove, moat, mortal wound, mutilation, nick, nock, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, puncture, rabbet, ravine, rent, rifling, rift, rime, rip, ruck, run, rupture, rut, scald, scissure, scorch, score, scoring, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratching, scuff, seam, second-degree burn, slash, slashing, slit, slot, sore, split, stab, stab wound, stipple, stippling, streak, stria, striation, sulcation, sulcus, tear, third-degree burn, tint, tooling, trauma, trench, type-cutting, valley, void, wadi, well-worn groove, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrinkle

• incisive, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, active, acute, aggressive, animated, apperceptive, appercipient, argute, astringent, astute, biting, bitter, brisk, canny, caustic, clear-cut, cogent, corroding, corrosive, critical, cutting, cynical, discerning, double-edged, driving, dynamic, edged, effective, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, escharotic, farseeing, farsighted, fierce, forceful, forcible, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, full of pep, go-go, gutsy, harsh, hearty, imperative, impetuous, impressive, intense, ironical, keen, kinetic, lively, living, longheaded, longsighted, lusty, mettlesome, mordacious, mordant, nervous, penetrating, peppy, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous, piercing, poignant, powerful, provident, punchy, rigorous, robust, rough, sagacious, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, scorching, sensational, severe, sharp, shrewd, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, stabbing, stinging, strenuous, strident, striking, stringent, strong, take-charge, take-over, tart, telling, terse, trenchant, understanding, vehement, vibrant, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic, vivacious, vivid, withering, zestful, zesty, zippy

• incisor, baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, canine, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, milk tooth, molar, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, premolar, scrivello, snag, snaggletooth, tooth, tush, tusk, wisdom tooth

• incite, abet, actuate, admonish, agitate, animate, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, bestir, blow the coals, blow up, call forth, call up, caution, charge, compel, drive, drive on, egg on, encourage, enjoin, enkindle, enrage, excite, exhort, expostulate, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, foment, forward, frenzy, give an impetus, give momentum, goad, heat, heat up, impassion, impel, incense, induce, inflame, influence, infuriate, inspire, instigate, issue a caveat, key up, kindle, lather up, light the fuse, light up, madden, motivate, move, nettle, overexcite, persuade, pique, power, preach, prick, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, push, put in motion, put up to, rally, remonstrate, rouse, set agoing, set astir, set fire to, set going, set in motion, set on, set on fire, sic on, spur, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, thrust, tickle, turn on, urge, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, warn, whet, whip on, whip up, work into, work up

• incitement, aggravation, agitating, agitation, animation, arousal, arousing, awakening, bait, bribe, carrot, clout, compulsion, drive, driving force, electrification, encouragement, enticement, exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exciting, exhilaration, exhortation, exhorting, fillip, firing, fomentation, fomenting, galvanization, goading, impellent, impelling force, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitation, inducement, inflaming, inflammation, influence, influencing, infuriation, inspiration, instigating, instigation, interest, invitation, irresistible force, irritation, lathering up, lure, moment, momentum, motivation, motive power, mover, needling, payment, pep rally, pep talk, percentage, persuasion, persuasive, perturbation, power, pricking, prodding, profit, prompting, propulsion, provocation, provoking, rabble-rousing, rallying, reward, spurring, steaming up, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, stirring-up, sweetener, sweetening, temptation, thrust, urging, wakening, whet, whipping, whipping up, working up

• incivility, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, animality, bad manners, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, bestiality, boorishness, brutality, brutishness, caddishness, coarseness, crudeness, discourteousness, discourtesy, gross behavior, grossness, ill breeding, ill manners, impoliteness, inconsiderateness, indecorousness, indecorum, insensitivity, inurbanity, loutishness, mannerlessness, misbehavior, offensiveness, philistinism, rudeness, savagery, savagism, tactlessness, troglodytism, uncivilizedness, uncourtliness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungraciousness, unmannerliness, unpoliteness, unrefinement, unsolicitousness, vulgarity, wildness

• inclemency, absolute zero, acuteness, algidity, animality, astringency, atrocity, austerity, barbarity, bitterness, bleakness, bloodlust, briskness, brutality, chill, chilliness, cold, coldness, cool, coolness, coolth, crispness, cruelty, cryogenics, cryology, decrease in temperature, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, fierceness, flintiness, force, freezing point, freshness, frigidity, frostiness, furiousness, gelidity, grimness, hardness, harshness, heartlessness, iciness, impetuosity, inexorableness, inhumanity, intense cold, intensity, keenness, low temperature, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, nip, nippiness, pitilessness, rawness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, savagery, severity, sharp air, sharpness, short shrift, sternness, stringency, tender mercies, terrorism, uncompassionateness, unfeelingness, unforgivingness, ungentleness, unmercifulness, unremorsefulness, unsympatheticness, unyieldingness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence

• inclement, Siberian, algid, arctic, astringent, austere, bad, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, blustery, boreal, bowelless, brisk, brumal, brutal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cruel, cutting, dog-eat-dog, dour, extreme, flinty, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, grim, hard, harsh, heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inexorable, intemperate, keen, merciless, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, pitiless, rainy, raw, relentless, remorseless, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, squally, stern, stone-cold, stormy, stringent, subzero, supercooled, tempestuous, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unforgiving, ungentle, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unsparing, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, violent, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, without mercy

• inclination, a thing for, affection, affinity, aim, an ear for, an eye for, angle, angularity, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, aptitude, aptness, ardor, attitude, azimuth, bag, bank, bearing, bend, bending, bending the knee, bent, bevel, bezel, bias, bob, bow, bowing, bowing and scraping, cant, capacity for, cascade, cast, cataract, character, choice, chosen kind, chute, collapse, comedown, command, conation, conatus, conduciveness, constitution, course, crash, craving, cup of tea, current, curtsy, debacle, decision, declension, declination, defluxion, delight, descending, descension, descent, desire, determination, diathesis, dipping the colors, direction, direction line, discretion, discrimination, disposition, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drift, drop, dropping, druthers, eagerness, easy slope, eccentricity, enthusiasm, fall, falling, fancy, fascination, favor, favoritism, feeling for, felicity, fervor, flair, fleam, forejudgment, free choice, free will, genius for, gentle slope, genuflection, gift for, glacis, grade, gradient, grain, gravitation, hanging gardens, heading, helicline, helmsmanship, hillside, homage, idiosyncrasy, incline, inclined plane, inclining, individualism, inequality, innate aptitude, intention, interest, involvement, jaundice, jaundiced eye, kidney, kneeling, kowtow, launching ramp, lay, lean, leaning, leaning tower, liability, lie, liking, line, line of direction, line of march, list, longing, lust, make, makeup, making a leg, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, nature, navigation, nepotism, nod, nodding, obeisance, objective, obsequiousness, one-sidedness, orientation, parti pris, partialism, partiality, particular choice, partisanism, partisanship, passion, penchant, personal choice, piloting, pitch, pleasure, plummeting, point, pounce, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, preferential treatment, prejudgment, prejudice, prepossession, presenting arms, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, prostration, quarter, rake, ramp, range, rapids, readiness, resolution, reverence, run, salaam, salutation, salute, scarp, scrape, sensitivity to, servility, set, sexual desire, shelving beach, side, slant, slope, soft spot, stamp, standing at attention, steep slope, steerage, steering, stiff climb, stomach, stoop, strain, streak, stripe, style, submission, submissiveness, susceptibility, swag, sway, swoop, sympathy, talus, taste, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, thing, tilt, tilting, tip, tower of Pisa, track, trend, tropism, turn, turn for, turn of mind, twist, type, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality, velleity, volition, warp, waterfall, way, weakness, will, will power, willingness, wish, zeal

• incline, acclivity, acquiesce, address, affect, agree, aim, angle, ascend, ascent, back stairs, bank, be agreeable to, be disposed to, be dying to, be eager, be game, be open to, be predisposed, be ready, be spoiling for, be willing, bear, bend, bend to, bevel, bezel, bias, bow, bring, cant, careen, carry, cast, choose rather, chute, climb, collaborate, color, companion, companionway, conduce, consent, contribute, cooperate, decide, decline, declivity, deflect, descend, descent, determine, dip, dispose, drive, drop, easy slope, engage, enlist, escalier, fall, fall away, fall off, favor, feel about it, fire escape, fleam, flight of steps, gentle slope, get to do, glacis, go, go along with, go downhill, go uphill, grade, gradient, gravitate, hanging gardens, have a bias, have a tendency, have preference, have rather, head, heel, helicline, hill, hillside, hold a heading, honor before, impel, inclination, incline toward, inclined plane, induce, influence, interest in, keel, landing, landing stage, launching ramp, lay, lead, lean, lean toward, lean towards, leaning, level, like better, list, look at it, look kindly upon, look to, lure, make, move, not hesitate to, perron, persuade, pitch, please, plunge, plunge into, point, point to, precipitate, predispose, prefer, prefer to, prejudice, procure, prompt, rake, ramp, rather, recline, redound to, retreat, rise, scarp, see fit, serve, set, set before, set toward, settle, shelve, shelving beach, show a tendency, show preference, side, sidle, sink, slant, slope, soften up, spiral staircase, staircase, stairs, stairway, steep slope, steer, stepping-stones, steps, stiff climb, stile, subside, swag, sway, talus, tempt, tend, tend to go, tend toward, think best, think fit, think proper, tilt, tin, tinge, tip, tone, train, treads and risers, trend, turn, uprise, verge, view, warp, wear down, weigh with, work, work toward, would as leave, would as lief

• inclined, aching for, acquiescent, actuated, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, animated, apt, apt to, ardent, aslant, aslope, atilt, bearing, bending, bent, bent on, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, calculated to, canting, careening, compliant, conducive to, consenting, content, cooperative, crazy to, declivate, declivitous, desirous of, disposed, disposed to, dispositioned, docile, dying for, dying to, eager, enthusiastic, fain, fain of, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fond of, forward, game, given, given to, impelled, in the mind, in the mood, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined to, inclined toward, inclining, inclining toward, inner-directed, itching for, keen, keen on, leading to, leaning, leaning toward, liable, liable to, likely, likely to, listing, mad on, minded, minded to, motivated, moved, oblique, other-directed, out of plumb, out of square, partial to, pitched, pliant, predisposed, predisposed to, prompt, prompted, prone, prone to, quick, raking, ready, ready and willing, ready to, receptive, recumbent, responsive, set on, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, spoiling for, stimulated, tending, tending to, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tractable, well-disposed, well-inclined, wild to, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous

• inclining, aslant, aslope, atilt, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, comprehend, contain, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, leaning, listing, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, raking, receive, recumbent, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, tendency, tendent, tendential, tendentious, tending, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy

• include, accouple, accumulate, add, admit, agglutinate, allow for, amalgamate, amass, articulate, assemble, assimilate, associate, band, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blend, blockade, bond, bound, box in, bracket, bridge, bridge over, cage, catalogue, categorize, cement, chain, chamber, clap together, classify, close in, coalesce, collect, combine, come together, compass, complete, compound, comprehend, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, copulate, cordon, cordon off, corral, count, count in, couple, cover, embed, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, enshrine, envisage, fence in, file, fill, fill in, fill out, flux, fuse, gather, glue, group, hedge in, hem in, hold, house in, impound, imprison, incarcerate, incorporate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, internalize, involve, jail, join, keep within, kennel, knot, lay together, league, leaguer, link, list, lump together, make one, marry, marshal, mass, meld, melt into one, merge, mew, mew up, mix, mobilize, number, number among, occupy, pair, pen, pen in, piece together, pocket, put in, put together, quarantine, rail in, receive, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, reembody, register, roll into one, shade into, shrine, shut in, shut up, solder, solidify, span, splice, stable, stick together, subsume, surround, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, tabulate, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, tape, tie, unify, unite, wall in, weld, wrap, yard, yard up, yoke

• including, added to, along with, as well as, assimilating, attended by, compact of, composed of, composing, comprising, consisting of, constituting, contained in, containing, counting, coupled with, covering, embodied in, embodying, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, envisaging, formed of, in addition to, in conjunction with, inclusive, inclusive of, incorporating, let alone, linked to, made of, made out of, made up of, not to mention, numbering, over and above, plus, subsuming, together with, with

• inclusion, Anschluss, absorption, addition, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, assimilation, association, beleaguerment, besetment, blend, blending, blockade, blockading, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, circumscription, classification, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, composition, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confinement, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, containment, copartnership, copartnery, cordoning, counting, ecumenism, embarrassment, embodiment, embracement, encincture, encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, engagement, enmeshment, enosis, entanglement, envelopment, environment, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, girding, girdling, grouping, hookup, immurement, implication, imprisonment, incarceration, incorporation, integration, involution, involvement, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger, numbering, package, package deal, partnership, quarantine, relation, siege, sodality, solidification, sorority, surrounding, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, wedding

• inclusive of, added to, along with, as well as, attended by, compact of, composed of, composing, comprising, consisting of, constituting, contained in, containing, coupled with, embodied in, embodying, formed of, in addition to, in conjunction with, including, let alone, linked to, made of, made out of, made up of, not to mention, over and above, plus, subsuming, together with, with

• inclusive, across the board, aggregate, all, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, assimilating, blanket, broad, coincident, compact, comprehensive, comprising, concurrent, conjoint, conjugate, conjunct, containing, corporate, counting, covering, embodying, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, entire, envisaging, exhaustive, extensive, full, general, gross, holistic, including, inclusive of, incorporating, integral, integrated, joined, joint, numbering, omnibus, one, one and indivisible, taking in, total, umbrella, unified, universal, whole, wide

• incognito, anonym, anonymity, anonymous, anonymousness, camouflage, camouflaged, closed meeting, closet, concealed, confidentiality, confidentialness, cryptonymic, cryptonymous, disguise, disguised, domino, executive session, false colors, false face, false front, guisard, guiser, impersonator, in disguise, incog, incognita, inmost, innermost, innominate, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, isolation, mask, masked, masker, masque, masquerade, masquerader, masquerading, mummer, mummery, nameless, namelessness, on the sly, personal, privacy, private, private conference, privy, protective coloration, retired, retirement, secluded, seclusion, secretly, sequestered, sequestration, smoke screen, unacknowledged, undefined, under cover, undesignated, unidentified, unknown, unnamed, unrecognizable, unrecognized, unspecified, visor, vizard, vizard mask, withdrawn, without a name

• incognizant, a stranger to, asleep, blind to, caught napping, dead to, deaf to, impercipient, in ignorance of, insensible, insensible to, mindless, napping, nonconceiving, not with it, oblivious, out of it, unaware, unaware of, unconscious, unconscious of, unhearing, uninsightful, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unprehensive, unrealizing, unseeing, unsuspecting, unwitting, witless

• incoherent, Greek to one, abnormal, absurd, aleatoric, aleatory, aloof, ambiguous, amorphous, anomalous, apart, asunder, babbling, beyond understanding, bipartite, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, broken, broken off, chance, chancy, chaotic, chopped-off, choppy, confused, decousu, delirious, detached, dichotomous, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discordant, discrete, disjoined, disjointed, disjunctive, disordered, disproportionate, distinct, divergent, dizzy, episodic, fitful, foggy, fuzzy, gapped, garbled, general, giddy, hazy, herky-jerky, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, illogical, impenetrable, imprecise, in two, inaccurate, inarticulate, inchoate, incognizable, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, incomprehensible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, inscrutable, insular, intermittent, interrupted, irrational, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, jumbled, lax, lightheaded, loose, maundering, mixed up, muddled, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonspecific, nonuniform, numinous, obscure, off, open, orderless, out of proportion, oxymoronic, paradoxical, parenthetic, partitioned, past comprehension, patchy, rambling, random, ranting, raving, scrambled, scrappy, self-contradictory, separate, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, stochastic, suspended, sweeping, tenuous, tongue-tied, unadhesive, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unclear, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unfathomable, unintelligible, unjoined, unknowable, unorganized, unplain, unsearchable, unspecified, unsuccessive, untenacious, vague, veiled, wandering, wild

• income tax, VAT, ad valorem duty, alcohol tax, amusement tax, assessment on default, capital gains tax, capitation, capitation tax, corporation tax, customs, customs duty, death duty, death tax, doomage, duty, estate duty, estate tax, excess profits tax, excise, excise tax, export tax, federal tax, gabelle, gift tax, head tax, import tax, inheritance tax, internal revenue tax, land tax, liquor tax, local tax, luxury tax, nuisance tax, personal property tax, poll, poll tax, property tax, property-increment tax, protective tariff, provincial tax, rates, revenue tariff, sales tax, salt tax, school tax, severance tax, specific duty, state tax, tariff, tariff duty, telephone tax, use tax, value added tax, window tax

• income, access, admission, avails, base pay, box office, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, commissions, compensation, credit, credits, dismissal wage, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, entrance, entree, entry, escalator clause, escalator plan, filthy lucre, financial remuneration, gain, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, guaranteed annual wage, hire, hoard, import, importation, importing, incoming, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interest, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, killing, leakage, living wage, lucre, make, makings, minimum wage, neat profit, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, output, paper profits, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, pelf, penetration, percentage, percolation, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, portal-to-portal pay, proceeds, produce, profit, profits, purchasing power, rake-off, real wages, receipt, receipts, receivables, reception, remuneration, return, returns, revenue, royalties, salary, seepage, severance pay, sliding scale, store, take, take-home, take-home pay, take-in, takings, taxable income, total compensation, unearned income, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, wealth, winnings, yield

• incoming, access, admission, approaching, arriving, coming, entering, entrance, entree, entry, homeward, homeward-bound, import, importation, importing, in, inbound, income, infiltration, inflooding, inflowing, ingoing, ingress, ingression, ingressive, inpouring, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, intrusive, invasive, inward, inward-bound, irruptive, leakage, new, penetration, percolation, reception, seepage

• incommensurable, abnormal, absurd, alien, anomalous, apart, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disproportionate, disrelated, dissimilar, dissociated, exotic, extraneous, foreign, incoherent, incommensurate, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent, insular, irreconcilable, irrelative, isolated, not comparable to, of different orders, other, out of proportion, outlandish, oxymoronic, paradoxical, removed, segregate, self-contradictory, separate, separated, strange, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unconnected, unlike, unrelatable, unrelated

• incommensurate, abnormal, absurd, anomalous, disappointing, disheartening, displeasing, disproportionate, dissatisfactory, inadequate, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, insufficient, irreconcilable, not comparable to, not good enough, out of proportion, oxymoronic, paradoxical, self-contradictory, unfulfilling, ungratifying, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying

• incommodious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, awkward, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, clumsy, confined, constricted, cramp, cramped, crowded, discommodious, incapacious, inconvenient, isthmian, isthmic, limited, meager, narrow, near, restrained, restricted, scant, scanty, slender, strait, tight, troublesome, unhandy, unwieldy

• incommunicable, inalienable, indefeasible, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, innominable, noncommunicable, noncontagious, noninfectious, undefinable, unimpartable, unmentionable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable, unwhisperable

• incommunicado, abstruse, beclouded, blind, buried, close, clouded, concealed, covered, covert, eclipsed, hid, hidden, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, latent, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, recondite, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, unknown, wrapped in clouds

• incommutable, changeless, constant, immutable, inconvertible, indefeasible, inert, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lasting, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, permanent, reverseless, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeflectable, undeviating, unmodifiable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying

• incomparable, alien, apart, beyond compare, beyond comparison, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissimilar, dissociated, easily first, exotic, extraneous, facile princeps, foreign, immortal, incommensurable, incommensurate, independent, inimitable, insular, invincible, irrelative, isolated, matchless, nonpareil, not comparable to, nulli secundus, of different orders, other, outlandish, peerless, removed, second to none, segregate, separate, separated, strange, sui generis, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, transcendent, unaffiliated, unallied, unapproachable, unapproached, unassociated, unbeatable, unconnected, unequaled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unlike, unmatchable, unmatched, unparagoned, unparalleled, unpeered, unrelatable, unrelated, unrivaled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, without equal, without parallel

• incomparably, egregiously, eminently, exceedingly, far and away, inimitably, invincibly, matchlessly, nulli secundus, par excellence, paramountly, peerlessly, preeminently, prominently, superlatively, supremely, surpassingly, the most, to crown all, transcendently, unbeatably, uniquely, unmatchably, unsurpassably, unsurpassedly

• incompatibility, Discordia, Eris, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, autism, bashfulness, chill, chilliness, clash, clashing, coldness, conflict, contention, contrariety, contrast, coolness, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffinity, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity, dissociability, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, enmity, equivocality, far cry, friction, frost, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, iciness, inaccordance, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibleness, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inhospitality, inimicality, insociability, irreconcilability, jangle, jar, mischief, mixture, mopishness, moroseness, nonconformability, nonconformity, noncooperation, odds, open conflict, opposition, otherness, oxymoron, paradox, personal conflict, rub, self-containment, self-contradiction, self-sufficiency, separateness, social incompatibility, strain, strained relations, sullenness, tension, unamiability, uncommunicativeness, uncompanionability, unconformability, unconformity, uncongeniality, uncordiality, unfriendliness, ungeniality, ungregariousness, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpleasantness, unsociability, unsociableness, variance, variation, variegation, variety

• incompatible, abnormal, absurd, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, antithetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, autistic, bashful, chill, chilly, clashing, close, cold, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, cranky, cross, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissociable, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, frosty, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, icy, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inhospitable, inimical, insociable, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, mismatched, mopey, mopish, morose, motley, multifarious, negative, nongregarious, opposed, opposite, out of accord, out of proportion, out of whack, oxymoronic, paradoxical, poles apart, poles asunder, repugnant, self-contained, self-contradictory, self-sufficient, separate, separated, several, snug, socially incompatible, strained, sullen, tense, unamiable, unamicable, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconformable, uncongenial, uncordial, unequal, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unlike, unsociable, unsocial, unsuited, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

• incompetence, ad lib, baseness, deficiency, disability, disablement, disqualification, extemporaneousness, failure, falling short, faultiness, fewness, imbecility, imperfection, improvisation, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadequateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, insufficientness, lack of preparation, legal incapacity, littleness, maladjustment, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, minority, none to spare, nonfulfillment, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, nonsatisfaction, pedestrianism, pettiness, planlessness, rustiness, shabbiness, short supply, skill-lessness, smallness, subnormality, thoughtlessness, too late, too little, triviality, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unpreparedness, unproficiency, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, untrainedness, uselessness, vulgarity, vulnerability, wardship

• incompetent, awkward, base, blank cartridge, bungling, castrato, clumsy, defective, deficient, disqualified, dud, dull tool, eunuch, failing, found wanting, gauche, gelding, greenhorn, ill-equipped, ill-fitted, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-qualified, imperfect, impotent, inadequate, incapable, incapable of, incomplete, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, ineligible, inept, inexpert, inferior, insufficient, invalid, lacking, little, maladjusted, maladroit, mean, mediocre, mediocrity, no conjuror, not comparable, not enough, not equal to, not in it, not up to, out of it, petty, shabby, small, too little, trivial, unable, unable to, unadapted, unadjusted, unarmed, unendowed, unequal to, unequipped, unfit, unfitted, ungifted, unprovided, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unskilled, unskillful, unsufficing, unsuited, untalented, unworkmanlike, useless, wanting, weakling

• incomplete, adulterated, arrested, blemished, broken, callow, crude, damaged, defective, deficient, embryonic, erroneous, failing, fallible, faulty, found wanting, fractional, fragmentary, fragmented, hypoplastic, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate, inadequate, incompetent, inexact, infant, insufficient, lacking, makeshift, mediocre, missing, mixed, needing, not enough, not perfect, off, part, partial, patchy, piecemeal, rough, scant, scanty, scrappy, sectional, segmental, segmentary, short, shy, sketchy, too little, unaccomplished, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undone, unequal to, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, wanting

• incompletely, after a fashion, appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, by halves, comparatively, defectively, deficiently, detectably, fairly, faultily, imperfectly, in a manner, in a way, in half measures, in installments, in part, in some measure, inadequately, insufficiently, leastwise, merely, mildly, moderately, modestly, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, only, part, partially, partly, pro tanto, purely, relatively, simply, so far, somewhat, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, tolerably, unsubstantially, visibly

• incompleteness, absence, adulteration, beggary, broken thread, brokenness, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disjunction, drought, episode, erroneousness, fallibility, famine, faultiness, fitfulness, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incoherence, inexactitude, inexactness, intermittence, irregularity, need, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, omission, parenthesis, patchiness, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, starvation, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, want, wantage

• incomprehensible, Greek to one, abstruse, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, ambiguous, antic, arcane, baffling, beguiling, bewildering, beyond understanding, boundless, countless, cryptic, dark, deep, endless, enigmatic, eternal, exceptional, exhaustless, extending everywhere, extraordinary, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense, impenetrable, impossible, inarticulate, incalculable, incognizable, incoherent, inconceivable, incredible, indecipherable, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, inscrutable, interminable, interminate, limitless, marvelous, measureless, miraculous, mysterious, mystifying, no end of, numinous, obscure, occult, opaque, outlandish, passing strange, past comprehension, perpetual, perplexing, phenomenal, prodigious, puzzling, rambling, rare, recondite, remarkable, sensational, shoreless, strange, striking, stupendous, sumless, termless, unaccountable, unbelievable, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unconnected, undecipherable, unexpected, unfathomable, unheard-of, unimaginable, unintelligible, unique, universal, unknowable, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, unprecedented, unsearchable, untold, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number, wonderful, wondrous

• incomprehension, blindness, deafness, dim-sightedness, imperceptiveness, impercipience, incognizance, insensibility, mindlessness, nearsightedness, nonrealization, nonrecognition, nonunderstanding, purblindness, shortsightedness, unapprehendingness, unawareness, unconsciousness, undiscerningness, unmindfulness, unperceptiveness, unwittingness

• inconceivable, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, antic, barred, beguiling, bewildering, beyond belief, closed-out, contrary to reason, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, enigmatic, exceptional, excluded, extraordinary, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, hard of belief, hard to believe, hopeless, implausible, impossible, incomprehensible, incredible, logically impossible, marvelous, mind-boggling, miraculous, not deserving belief, not possible, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outlandish, overwhelming, oxymoronic, paradoxical, passing belief, passing strange, phenomenal, preposterous, problematic, prodigious, prohibited, puzzling, questionable, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, ruled-out, self-contradictory, sensational, staggering, staggering belief, strange, striking, stupendous, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unaccountable, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, unexpected, ungodly, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unknowable, unprecedented, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weak, wonderful, wondrous

• inconclusive, absonant, contradictory, contrary to reason, fallacious, faulty, feeble, flawed, flimsy, groundless, illogical, inauthentic, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, insubstantial, invalid, irrational, loose, nonscientific, not following, not proved, open, paralogical, poor, reasonless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, unascertained, unattested, unauthentic, unauthenticated, uncertain, uncertified, unconfirmed, unconnected, uncorroborated, undemonstrated, undetermined, unestablished, unfinished, unfixed, unfounded, unphilosophical, unproved, unproven, unreasonable, unresolved, unrigorous, unscientific, unsettled, unshown, unsound, unsubstantial, unsubstantiated, unsupported, unsupported by evidence, unsustained, untested, untried, unvalidated, unverified, weak, without basis, without grounds, without reason

• incongruity, absurdity, absurdness, ambiguity, ambivalence, antilogy, antinomy, asymmetry, bizarreness, bizarrerie, contrariety, contrast, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, drollery, drollness, eccentricity, equivocality, far cry, funniness, futility, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hilarity, humorousness, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, impoliticalness, impoliticness, inaccordance, inadvisability, inappropriateness, inaptitude, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, inconclusiveness, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconvenience, inconveniency, ineptitude, inequality, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inopportuneness, invalidity, irrationality, irreconcilability, laughability, ludicrousness, mixture, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformability, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonobservance, odds, opposition, originality, otherness, oxymoron, paradox, pricelessness, protest, quaintness, quizzicalness, reasonlessness, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, richness, ridiculousness, self-contradiction, senselessness, separateness, the funny side, unconformability, unconformity, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unlikeness, unmeetness, unorthodoxy, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unreasonableness, unscientificness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsoundness, unsuitability, untenableness, untimeliness, unwiseness, uselessness, variance, variation, variegation, variety, whimsicalness, wittiness, worthlessness, wrongness

• incongruous, abnormal, absonant, absurd, amusing, anomalous, assorted, at odds, at variance, bad, bizarre, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrary to reason, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, droll, eccentric, fallacious, faulty, flawed, funny, futile, harsh, heterogeneous, hilarious, humorous, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-suited, ill-timed, illogical, impolitic, improper, in disagreement, inaccordant, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauthentic, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, inconclusive, incongruent, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, inconsonant, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inharmonious, inopportune, invalid, irrational, irreconcilable, laughable, loose, ludicrous, mal a propos, malapropos, many, motley, multifarious, nonscientific, not following, off-color, off-tone, out of keeping, out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of step, oxymoronic, paradoxical, paralogical, poles apart, poles asunder, priceless, quaint, quizzical, reasonless, rich, ridiculous, risible, screaming, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, separate, separated, several, unapt, unauthentic, unbecoming, unbefitting, unconformable, unconnected, undesirable, unequal, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhappy, unlike, unmeet, unphilosophical, unprofitable, unreasonable, unscientific, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, unwise, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, whimsical, widely apart, without reason, witty, worlds apart, wrong

• inconsequence, disassociation, disconnection, discreteness, disjunction, disjuncture, dissociation, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, inconnection, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, independence, indifference, ineffectuality, inferiority, insignificance, irrelation, irrelevance, littleness, low priority, marginality, negligibility, pettiness, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, puniness, secondariness, separateness, slightness, smallness, unconnectedness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unnoteworthiness, unrelatedness

• inconsequent, abnormal, absonant, absurd, adrift, anomalous, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, contradictory, contrary to reason, disproportionate, extraneous, extrinsic, fallacious, faulty, flawed, illogical, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inauthentic, incidental, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsistent, inconsonant, invalid, irrational, irreconcilable, irrelative, irrelevant, loose, measly, niggling, nihil ad rem, nonessential, nonscientific, not at issue, not following, off the subject, out of proportion, out-of-the-way, oxymoronic, paltry, paradoxical, paralogical, parenthetical, peanut, pettifogging, picayune, picayunish, reasonless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, small, trifling, trivial, unauthentic, unconnected, unessential, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unscientific, without reason

• inconsequential, absonant, back-burner, contradictory, contrary to reason, cursory, depthless, dinky, dispensable, fallacious, faulty, few, flawed, footling, illogical, immaterial, inappreciable, inauthentic, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsiderable, inconsistent, inessential, inferior, insignificant, invalid, irrational, irrelevant, lightweight, little, loose, low, meager, miniature, minor, minute, negligible, no great shakes, nonessential, nonscientific, not following, not vital, nugatory, paltry, paralogical, petit, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, reasonless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, shallow, short, skin-deep, slight, small, superficial, technical, tiny, trifling, trivial, unauthentic, unconnected, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unscientific, without reason, worthless

• inconsiderable, back-burner, cursory, depthless, dinky, dispensable, few, footling, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, little, low, meager, miniature, minor, minute, negligible, no great shakes, nonessential, not vital, petit, petty, picayune, picayunish, shallow, short, skin-deep, small, superficial, technical, tiny, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimpressive, unnoteworthy

• inconsiderate, airy, arbitrary, boorish, brash, caddish, capricious, careless, casual, coarse, crude, cursory, degage, disregardant, disregardful, easygoing, flippant, forgetful, free and easy, hasty, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, ill-bred, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, inadvertent, inadvisable, incautious, indifferent, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, insensitive, insouciant, intolerant, irrational, lazy, loutish, louty, madcap, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, nasty, oblivious, offensive, offhand, perfunctory, rash, reasonless, reckless, regardless, respectless, rude, senseless, sharp, shortsighted, tactless, thoughtless, unaccommodating, unadvised, uncalculating, uncaring, unceremonious, uncomplaisant, unconcerned, unconsidered, uncooperative, undiplomatic, undiscerning, unfeminine, unforeseeing, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungracious, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, unladylike, unmindful, unobliging, unprepared, unready, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrefined, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsolicitous, unsound, unsympathetic, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, vulgar, witless

• inconsistency, aloofness, ambiguity, ambivalence, anarchy, antagonism, antilogy, antinomy, antipathy, antithesis, asymmetry, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, chaos, choppiness, clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, confusion, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, counterposition, cross-purposes, dappleness, departure, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, diffusion, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disparity, dispersal, dispersion, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity, dissolution, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversity, eccentricity, entropy, equivocality, erraticism, far cry, fickleness, flightiness, freakishness, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hostility, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, impulsiveness, inaccordance, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, inconclusiveness, incongruity, inconsonance, inconstancy, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, instability, invalidity, irrationality, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, mixture, moodiness, motleyness, mutability, nonadhesion, noncohesion, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformability, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonobservance, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, odds, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, otherness, oxymoron, paradox, perversity, pluralism, polarity, protest, raggedness, reasonlessness, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, repugnance, restlessness, scattering, self-contradiction, senselessness, separateness, shiftiness, showdown, unadherence, unadhesiveness, uncertainty, unconformability, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unevenness, unfixedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreasonableness, unreliability, unscientificness, unsettledness, unsoundness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, untenableness, untenacity, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality

• inconsistent, abnormal, absonant, absurd, adrift, adversative, adverse, adversive, afloat, aloof, alternating, amorphous, anomalous, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, assorted, at cross-purposes, at odds, at variance, balancing, broken, capricious, changeable, changeful, changing, choppy, clashing, compensating, conflicting, confronting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrary to reason, contrasted, contrasting, converse, counter, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, dead against, departing, desultory, detached, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconnected, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, disproportionate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, eccentric, erose, erratic, eyeball to eyeball, fallacious, fast and loose, faulty, fickle, fitful, flawed, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, gapped, giddy, heterogeneous, hostile, illogical, impetuous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, inauthentic, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsonant, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, inharmonious, inimical, invalid, inverse, irrational, irreconcilable, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, loose, lubricious, many, mazy, mercurial, moody, motley, multifarious, mutable, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, nonconformist, nonscientific, nonstandard, nonuniform, not following, obverse, open, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of proportion, oxymoronic, paradoxical, paralogical, perverse, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, ragged, rambling, reasonless, repugnant, restless, reverse, rough, roving, scatterbrained, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, separate, separated, several, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, sporadic, squared off, temperamental, tenuous, ticklish, unaccountable, unadhesive, unauthentic, uncertain, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconformable, unconnected, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unjoined, unlike, unorthodox, unphilosophical, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unscientific, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, untenacious, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, widely apart, wishy-washy, without reason, worlds apart

• inconsonant, abnormal, absurd, anomalous, assorted, at odds, at variance, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, ill-matched, ill-suited, in disagreement, inaccordant, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inharmonious, irreconcilable, many, mismated, motley, multifarious, out of proportion, oxymoronic, paradoxical, poles apart, poles asunder, self-contradictory, separate, separated, several, unconformable, uncongenial, unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

• inconspicuous, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, confused, dark, dim, discreet, faint, feeble, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, insignificant, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misty, modest, obscure, out of focus, pale, semivisible, shadowy, unassuming, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undistinguished, unemphatic, unnoticeable, unnoticed, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unplain, unrecognizable, vague, weak

• inconstancy, Punic faith, ambitendency, ambivalence, arrhythmia, bad faith, barratry, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, brokenness, capriciousness, change of mind, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, coquettishness, dappleness, dereliction, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, disaffection, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disloyalty, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, eccentricity, erraticism, erraticness, faddishness, faddism, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fibrillation, fickleness, fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation, freakishness, frivolousness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, indecision, indecisiveness, inequality, infidelity, infirmity of purpose, instability, intermittence, irregularity, irresolution, jerkiness, levity, lightness, mala fides, mercuriality, mercurialness, moodiness, motleyness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, patchiness, pluralism, raggedness, recreancy, restlessness, roughness, second thoughts, shiftiness, skittishness, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, tergiversation, trothlessness, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undecidedness, undependability, undeterminedness, unevenness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unfixedness, unloyalty, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, untrueness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, volatility, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, wobble

• inconstant, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, brittle, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, changing, choppy, coquettish, corruptible, deciduous, derelict, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disaffected, disconnected, discontinuous, disloyal, disorderly, disregardful, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, dying, eccentric, elusive, ephemeral, erose, erratic, evanescent, faddish, fading, faithless, false, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuating, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious, fugitive, giddy, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inattentive, inconsistent, indecisive, indefinite, infirm, inobservant, insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, light, lubricious, lurching, mazy, mercurial, momentary, moody, mortal, motley, mutable, negligent, nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonconformist, nondurable, nonobservant, nonpermanent, nonstandard, nonuniform, not true to, of bad faith, passing, patchy, perishable, pluralistic, protean, quicksilver, ragged, rambling, recreant, restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, skittish, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, temperamental, temporal, temporary, ticklish, toying, transient, transitive, transitory, trothless, unaccountable, uncertain, uncompliant, unconforming, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfaithful, unfixed, unloyal, unmethodical, unmetrical, unobservant, unorthodox, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic, untrue, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, versatile, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

• incontestable, absolute, actual, admitting no question, certain, confirmable, demonstrable, demonstratable, factual, historical, impenetrable, impregnable, inappealable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indomitable, indubitable, inexpugnable, insuperable, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, irrefragable, irrefutable, irresistible, overpowering, overwhelming, provable, real, resistless, self-evident, sure, testable, unanswerable, unassailable, unbeatable, unconfutable, unconquerable, uncontestable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unrefutable, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unyielding, verifiable

• incontinence, abandon, abandonment, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, boundlessness, carpe diem, conspicuous consumption, covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, cupidity, dissipation, drunkenness, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, hoggishness, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, indiscipline, indulgence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinate desire, inordinateness, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperance, intemperateness, irrepressibility, itching palm, lavishness, laxness, leaking purse, licentiousness, loose purse strings, lust, monstrousness, nimiety, noncoercion, nonintimidation, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overdoing, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overgreatness, overgreediness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overliberality, overmuch, overmuchness, permissiveness, piggishness, pound-foolishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, radicalism, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, riotousness, self-indulgence, sordidness, squandering, squandermania, swinishness, too much, too-muchness, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontinence, uncontrol, undueness, uninhibitedness, unreasonableness, unreserve, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unstrictness, voraciousness, voracity, wantonness, waste, wastefulness, wildness, wolfishness

• incontinent, a bit much, abandoned, bibulous, boundless, crapulent, crapulous, debauched, dirty, dissipative, dissolute, easy come, easy go, egregious, enormous, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fast, filthy, gigantic, gluttonous, go-go, high, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, irrepressible, lascivious, lavish, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, loose, lubricious, lubricous, lustful, monstrous, nonrestrictive, obscene, orgiastic, out of bounds, out of control, out of hand, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overgenerous, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal, overmuch, overweening, penny-wise and pound-foolish, permissive, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, rampant, reinless, riotous, salacious, satyric, self-indulgent, spendthrift, steep, stiff, swinish, too much, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontinent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, undue, unforced, unfrugal, ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhibited, unlimited, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unreasonable, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsuppressed, unthrifty, wanton, wasteful, wild

• incontrovertible, absolute, actual, adducible, admissible, admitting no question, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, confirmable, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, definite, definitive, demonstrable, demonstratable, determinative, documentary, documented, established, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, historical, implicit, inappealable, incontestable, indicative, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, irresistible, material, nuncupative, overwhelming, positive, presumptive, probative, provable, real, reliable, self-evident, significant, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, telling, testable, unanswerable, unconfutable, uncontestable, undeniable, unequivocal, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unrefutable, valid, verifiable, weighty

• inconvenience, abuse a privilege, ado, aggravate, aggravation, ail, annoy, annoyance, anxiety, awkwardness, be the matter, beset, besetment, bother, bothersomeness, bulkiness, burden, burdening, burdensomeness, burthen, can of worms, cargo, charge, charging, clumsiness, complicate matters, concern, cross, cumbersomeness, cumbrance, deadweight, demand, difficulty, disaccommodate, disadvantage, discomfort, discommode, discommodity, discompose, disoblige, disrupt, disruption, distress, disturb, disturbance, drawback, embarrassment, encroach upon, encumbrance, evil, exaction, exasperate, exasperation, freight, freighting, fuss, futility, great ado, hamper, handicap, harass, harm, headache, hindrance, hulkiness, impediment, impedimenta, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impose on, impose upon, imposing an onus, imposition, impracticality, impropriety, inadvisability, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inauspiciousness, incommode, incommodity, incongruity, inconsiderateness, inconveniency, inconvenientness, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, infliction, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interfere, intermeddle, interruption, intrusion, irk, irrelevance, irritate, lateness, laying on, load, loading, loading down, lumber, make free with, matter, meddle, nuisance, obtrude upon, obtrusiveness, onerousness, onus, overstep, pack, pain, peck of troubles, penalty, perplex, perturb, plague, ponderousness, pother, prematurity, presume on, presume upon, presumptuousness, problem, put about, put out, put to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle, sea of troubles, stew, take a liberty, take liberties, tasking, taxing, torment, trial, trouble, troublesomeness, try, undesirability, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unhandiness, unmanageability, unmeetness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unpropitiousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwarranted demand, unwieldiness, unwiseness, upset, uselessness, vex, weight, weighting, white elephant, worry, worthlessness, wrongness

• inconvenient, annoying, awkward, bothersome, bulky, burdensome, clumsy, contrary, crosswise, cumbersome, detrimental, disadvantageous, discommodious, disturbing, embarrassing, hulking, hulky, ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-timed, impractical, improper, inappropriate, inauspicious, incommodious, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irksome, irrelevant, irritating, late, mal a propos, malapropos, mistimed, off base, onerous, out of line, out of phase, out of time, perverse, pestiferous, ponderous, prejudicial, premature, too late, too soon, troublesome, unbefitting, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unmanageable, unpropitious, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unsettling, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, unwieldy, upsetting, wrong

• inconvertible, changeless, constant, immutable, incommutable, indefeasible, inert, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, irredeemable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lasting, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, permanent, reverseless, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeflectable, undeviating, unmodifiable, unpayable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying

• inconvincible, cautious, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, guarded, hard of belief, impervious to persuasion, incredulous, leery, shy of belief, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unconvincible, uncredulous, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unwilling to accept, wary

• incorporate, add, admit, amalgamate, assemble, assimilate, blend, body, build, build up, coalesce, combine, come together, complete, compose, compound, comprehend, comprise, connect, consist of, consolidate, constitute, construct, contain, corporealize, corporify, count in, cover, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enter into, envisage, fabricate, fill, fill in, fill out, flux, form, fuse, go into, hold, imbibe, incarnate, include, integrate, interblend, interfuse, join, lump together, make, make one, make up, materialize, meld, melt into one, merge, merge in, mix, number among, occupy, organize, personify, piece together, put together, receive, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, reembody, reincarnate, roll into one, shade into, solidify, structure, substantialize, substantiate, substantify, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, transmigrate, unify, unite, unite in

• incorporated, allied, amalgamated, assembled, assimilated, associated, banded together, blended, bound, bracketed, collected, combinative, combinatory, combined, conjoined, conjoint, conjugate, conjunctive, connected, connective, consolidated, copulate, corporate, coupled, eclectic, embodied, fused, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, incarnate, integrated, intimate, joined, joint, knotted, leagued, linked, matched, mated, merged, mixed, one, paired, spliced, syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, tied, undivided, united, unseparated, wedded, yoked

• incorporation, Anschluss, addition, admissibility, admission, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, assemblage, assembly, assimilation, association, blend, blending, building, buildup, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, completeness, composition, compound, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, constitution, construction, copartnership, copartnery, corporealization, coverage, ecumenism, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, enosis, envisagement, exhaustiveness, fabrication, fashioning, federalization, federation, fellowship, formation, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, getup, hookup, incarnation, inclusion, inclusiveness, integration, junction, junta, league, make, makeup, marriage, materialization, meld, melding, membership, merger, metempsychosis, mixture, openness, organization, package, package deal, participation, partnership, personification, piecing together, putting together, reception, reembodiment, reincarnation, setup, shaping, sodality, solidification, sorority, structure, structuring, substantiation, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, tolerance, toleration, transmigration, unification, union, wedding, whole

• incorporeal, Masan, airy, apparition, appearance, asomatous, astral, astral spirit, banshee, bodiless, control, decarnate, decarnated, departed spirit, discarnate, disembodied, disembodied spirit, duppy, dybbuk, ectoplasmic, eidolon, ethereal, etheric, extramundane, form, ghost, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idolum, immaterial, immateriality, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal being, incorporeity, insubstantial, intangible, larva, lemures, manes, materialization, metaphysical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, oni, otherworldly, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, poltergeist, presence, psychic, revenant, shade, shadow, shadowy, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, specterlike, spectral, spectral ghost, spirit, spiritual, spook, sprite, supernatural, theophany, transmundane, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unsolid, unsubstanced, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, unworldly, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, weightless, wraith, wraithlike, wraithy, zombie

• incorporeality, airiness, airy nothing, bodilessness, ethereality, fineness, flimsiness, ghostliness, immateriality, immaterialness, impalpability, imponderability, incorporeity, inextension, insolidity, insubstantiality, intangibility, mistiness, nonexteriority, occult phenomena, occultism, otherworldliness, psychical research, psychicism, psychics, psychism, rareness, rarity, shadowiness, slightness, spirit world, spirituality, spirituousness, subtility, subtilty, subtlety, supernaturalism, tenuity, tenuousness, the occult, thinness, unconcreteness, unearthliness, unreality, unsolidity, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, unworldliness, vagueness

• incorrect, Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, approximate, approximative, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, cacophonous, careless, clumsy, coarse, criminal, crude, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, evil, fallacious, false, faulty, graceless, gross, hardly the thing, harsh, ignominious, illegal, imprecise, improper, impure, in bad taste, inaccurate, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, indecorous, inelegant, inexact, infamous, infelicitous, lax, loose, low, mistaken, negligent, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true, out-of-line, outlandish, rude, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, specious, tasteless, terrible, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfactual, unfelicitous, unfit, unfitting, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unlawful, unpolished, unprecise, unrefined, unrighteous, unrigorous, unseemly, unsound, unsuitable, untrue, vulgar, wicked, wrong, wrongful

• incorrigible, bad, beyond control, beyond recall, beyond remedy, breachy, chronic, confirmed, contumacious, cureless, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, defiant, dyed-in-the-wool, established, fast, fixed, fractious, gone, graceless, habitual, hardened, hopeless, immedicable, implanted, inculcated, incurable, indocile, indomitable, infixed, inflexible, ingrained, inoperable, instilled, insuppressible, intractable, inveterate, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irrepressible, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, long-established, lost, naughty, obdurate, obstreperous, out of hand, past hope, past praying for, recalcitrant, refractory, remediless, resistant, resisting, restive, rooted, ruined, set, settled, settled in habit, shrewish, shriftless, sinful, stubborn, terminal, thorough, unalterable, unbiddable, unchangeable, uncontrollable, undone, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmitigable, unmoldable, unredeemable, unregenerate, unrelievable, unruly, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unsubmissive, villainous, wicked, wild

• incorrupt, angelic, blameless, childlike, clear, correct, dovelike, faultless, flawless, good, guiltless, honest, honorable, immaculate, impeccable, in the clear, incorrupted, incorruptible, innocent, lamblike, moral, not guilty, offenseless, prelapsarian, pristine, pure, reproachless, righteous, sans reproche, sinless, spotless, straight, straightforward, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undebauched, undefiled, undegenerate, undemoralized, undepraved, undissolute, unerring, unfallen, unimpeachable, uniniquitous, unlapsed, unsinful, untouched by evil, unwicked, upright, upstanding, virtuous, with clean hands, without reproach

• incorruptible, amaranthine, deathless, dependable, embalmed, ever-fresh, everlasting, fadeless, faithworthy, frozen, immortal, imperishable, impregnable, indelible, indestructible, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, irrefragable, never-dying, nonperishable, proven, quenchless, reliable, responsible, straight, sure, tested, to be trusted, tried, tried and true, true, trustable, trustworthy, trusty, undampable, undestroyable, undying, unfading, unfalse, unperfidious, unquenchable, untreacherous

• incrassate, beat up, bloated, blown up, cake, caked, cakey, churn, clabber, clabbered, clot, clotted, clump, cluster, coagulate, coagulated, colloid, colloidize, concrete, congeal, congealed, cream, curd, curded, curdle, curdled, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, emulsify, emulsionize, enchymatous, fat, fatten, flatulent, gassy, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, gelatinized, grow thick, grumous, inflated, inspissate, inspissated, jell, jelled, jellied, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper, lump, lumpish, lumpy, plethoric, puffed up, puffy, pursy, set, swelled, swollen, thick, thicken, thickened, tumid, turgid, ventose, whip, windy

• increase, accession, accessory, accompaniment, accretion, accrue, accumulate, add to, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjunction, adjuvant, advance, affixation, agent provocateur, agglutination, aggrandize, aggrandizement, aggravate, aggravation, ampliation, amplification, amplify, anabasis, annex, annexation, annoy, annoyance, appanage, appendage, appendant, apportion, appreciate, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascension, ascent, attachment, augment, augmentation, balloon, beef up, better, bloat, blossom, blow up, boom, boost, breakthrough, breed, brew, broaden, broadening, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burgeon, calibrate, calibrated, clamber, climb, climbing, coda, complement, compound, concomitant, contentiousness, continuation, corollary, count, crescendo, decrease, deepen, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deployment, deteriorate, deterioration, develop, developing, development, differentiate, dilate, dispersion, distend, divide, elevation, elongate, embitter, embittering, embitterment, enhance, enhancement, enlarge, enlargement, escalade, escalating, escalation, exacerbate, exacerbation, exalt, exasperate, exasperation, expand, expanding, expansion, extend, extension, extrapolation, fanning out, fatten, fill out, fix, fixture, flare, flourish, fortify, fountain, further, gain, gain strength, gains, gather, germinate, get ahead, go up, gradational, grade, gradual, graduate, graduated, greaten, grow, grow up, growing, growth, gush, gyring up, heat up, heighten, heightening, hierarchic, hike, hike up, hiking, hot up, huff, hypertrophy, improve, increasing, increment, inflate, inflation, inmate, intensification, intensify, irritate, irritation, jack up, jet, joining, jump, jump up, junction, juxtaposition, leap, lengthen, levitation, magnification, magnify, make acute, make worse, manifold, mature, maximize, measure, mount, mounting, multiple, multiplication, multiplication table, multiplier, multiply, multiplying, mushroom, number, offshoot, on the increase, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, parcel, parlay, pendant, plus, prefixation, procreate, profits, progressive, proliferate, proliferating, proliferation, prolong, protract, provocation, provoke, puff, puff up, pullulate, pump, pump up, push, put up, pyramid, quantify, quantize, raise, raising, rarefy, rate, recruit, reduce, regular, reinforce, reinforcement, reproduce, rise, rising, rocketing up, run up, saltation, scalar, shade off, sharpen, sharpening, shoot up, shooting up, side effect, side issue, snowball, soaring, sour, souring, splay, spout, spread, spreading, spring, spring up, sprout, sprout up, spurt, strengthen, stretch, suffixation, sufflate, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplement, supplementation, surge, swarm, swell, tables, tailpiece, takeoff, taking off, teem, thicken, thrive, tower, tumefy, undergirding, uniting, up, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspear, upspring, upsprout, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, vegetate, vise, wax, waxing, widen, widening, winnings, worsen, worsening, zooming

• increased, accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, ampliate, amplified, annoyed, augmented, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up, crescendoed, deepened, deliberately provoked, elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, expanded, extended, heated up, heightened, hiked, hotted up, inflated, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, magnified, manifold, multifold, multiple, multiplied, polynomial, proliferated, provoked, raised, reinforced, soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, swollen, tightened, upped, widened, worse, worsened

• incredible, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, amazing, antic, appalling, astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, beguiling, bewildering, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, conspicuous, crazy, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, egregious, enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary, extravagant, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fictitious, flimsy, foolish, formidable, grotesque, hard of belief, hard to believe, hardly possible, high-flown, humongous, implausible, impossible, improbable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, laughable, ludicrous, marked, marvelous, miraculous, monstrous, more than doubtful, mythical, nonsensical, not deserving belief, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, of mark, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outlandish, outrageous, outre, outstanding, passing belief, passing strange, phenomenal, poppycockish, preposterous, problematic, prodigious, puzzling, questionable, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, sensational, signal, staggering belief, strange, striking, stupendous, superior, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, tremendous, unaccountable, unbelievable, uncommon, unconvincing, unearthly, unexpected, ungodly, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unprecedented, unpromising, unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, untenable, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weak, weird, wild, wonderful, wondrous

• incredibly, abnormally, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, astonishingly, awesomely, beguilingly, bewilderingly, conspicuously, copiously, eminently, emphatically, enigmatically, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, exuberantly, fabulously, famously, fantastically, fascinatingly, generously, glaringly, hardly, hardly ever, impressively, incomprehensibly, inconceivably, intensely, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, miraculously, nobly, notably, outlandishly, particularly, peculiarly, phenomenally, pointedly, preeminently, prodigiously, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, puzzlingly, rarely, remarkably, richly, seldom, seldom if ever, sensationally, signally, singularly, splendidly, strangely, strikingly, stupendously, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, uncommonly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly, unimaginably, unnaturally, unordinarily, unusually, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, worthily

• incredulity, Humism, Pyrrhonism, agnosticism, atheism, denial, disbelief, discredit, doubt, heresy, inability to believe, infidelity, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, rejection, scoffing, skepticism, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith

• incredulous, Humean, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cautious, creedless, disbelieving, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, faithless, guarded, hard of belief, heretical, hesitant, impervious to persuasion, inconvincible, irreligious, leery, minimifidian, mistrustful, nonbelieving, nullifidian, questioning, quizzical, repudiative, sceptical, shy of belief, skeptic, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, unconvincible, uncredulous, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unsatisfied, unwilling to accept, wary, without faith

• increment, access, accession, accessory, accompaniment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appreciation, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascent, attachment, augment, augmentation, ballooning, bloating, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, coda, complement, concomitant, continuation, corollary, crescendo, development, edema, elevation, enlargement, expansion, extension, extrapolation, fixture, flood, gain, greatening, growth, gush, hike, increase, inflation, jump, leap, mounting, multiplication, offshoot, pendant, productiveness, proliferation, raise, reinforcement, rise, side effect, side issue, snowballing, spread, supplement, surge, swelling, tailpiece, tumescence, undergirding, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening

• incriminate, accuse, arraign, assail, attack, blame, censure, charge, criminate, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, entangle, finger, impeach, implicate, impugn, inculpate, indict, involve, tax

• incrustation, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, cementwork, cloaking, clouding, coating, coverage, covering, crust, curtaining, eclipse, eclipsing, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, eschar, hiding, laying on, mantling, masking, obduction, obscuring, occultation, overlaying, overspreading, pargeting, pastry shell, piecrust, plasterwork, scab, scale, screening, sheathing, shell, shielding, shrouding, stalactite, stalagmite, stuccowork, superimposition, superposition, upholstering, upholstery, veiling, wrapping

• incrusted, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified, indurate, indurated, lapidified, ossified, petrified, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, toughened, vitrified

• incubus, Baba Yaga, Dracula, Frankenstein, Lilith, Wolf-man, afreet, bad dream, bale, barghest, bogey, bogeyman, brown study, bugaboo, bugbear, burden, burdening, burthen, cacodemon, cargo, charge, charging, cumber, cumbrance, daeva, daydream, deadweight, demon, devil, drag, dream, dybbuk, evil spirit, fee-faw-fum, fiend, fiend from hell, freight, frightener, genie, genius, ghost, ghoul, gyre, handicap, hellion, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incumbency, jinni, jinniyeh, lading, lamia, load, loading, millstone, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, phantom, pipe dream, pressure, rakshasa, revenant, reverie, saddling, satan, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, shedu, specter, succubus, superincumbency, surcharge, taxing, terror, the undead, vampire, vision, werewolf, yogini

• inculcate, beat into, brainwash, catechize, condition, engrave, etch, grave, imbue, implant, impregnate, impress, imprint, indoctrinate, infix, infuse, inoculate, inscribe, instill, program, stamp

• inculcated, chronic, confirmed, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, established, fast, fixed, implanted, incorrigible, infixed, ingrained, instilled, inveterate, irreversible, long-established, rooted, set, settled, settled in habit, thorough

• inculpable, above suspicion, blameless, clean, exemplary, faultless, guiltless, innocent, irreprehensible, irreproachable, irreprovable, pure, righteous, unarraignable, unblamable, unblameworthy, uncensurable, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unindictable, unobjectionable, virtuous

• inculpated, accused, arraignable, arraigned, at fault, blamed, censurable, charged, cited, criminal, culpable, denounced, faulty, guilty, impeachable, impeached, implicated, impugned, in complicity, incriminated, indictable, indicted, involved, peccant, reprehensible, reproachable, reproached, reprovable, tasked, taxed, to blame, under attack, under fire

• incumbency, accountability, accountableness, advowson, amenability, answerability, answerableness, appointment, bale, benefice, berth, billet, burden, burdening, burthen, care of souls, cargo, charge, charging, cumber, cumbrance, curacy, cure, deadweight, dedication to duty, devotion to duty, drag, duteousness, dutifulness, employment, encumbrance, engagement, freight, gig, glebe, handicap, incubus, job, lading, liability, living, load, loading, millstone, moonlighting, office, opening, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, place, position, post, prelacy, pressure, rectory, responsibility, responsibleness, saddling, second job, sense of duty, sense of obligation, service, situation, station, superincumbency, surcharge, taxing, tenure, vacancy, vicarage

• incumbent, addressee, artist-in-residence, beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, behooving, benefice-holder, beneficiary, binding, bridging, burdensome, chargeable to, commanding, compulsory, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, denizen, dweller, habitant, hirer, holdover, homesteader, house detective, imbricate, impendent, impending, incumbent on, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, ins, intern, jack-in-office, jutting, lame duck, lapping, leaseholder, lessee, live-in maid, locum tenens, lodger, lowering, lumpish, mandatory, massive, necessary, new broom, obligatory, occupant, occupier, office-bearer, officeholder, official, onerous, oppressive, overarched, overhanging, overhung, overlapping, overlying, paying guest, pending, prescribed, president-elect, projecting, public official, public servant, renter, required, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, roomer, shingled, sojourner, spanning, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, superincumbent, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, underlessee, unwieldy

• incur, acquire, arouse, attract, be responsible for, bring down, bring on, bring upon, contract, draw, fall in with, fall into, gain, get, induce, invite, provoke, run, welcome

• incurable, apoplectic, arthritic, beyond recall, beyond remedy, case, consumptive, cureless, dyspeptic, epileptic, fatal, gone, habitual, hopeless, immedicable, impossible, incorrigible, inoperable, inpatient, invalid, inveterate, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, outpatient, past hope, past praying for, patient, relentless, remediless, rheumatic, ruined, shut-in, sick person, spastic, sufferer, terminal, terminal case, the sick, uncorrectable, undone, unflagging, unmitigable, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, valetudinarian

• incuriosity, absentmindedness, accidia, acedia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, carelessness, casualness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, easygoingness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolousness, giddiness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, indifference, indiscrimination, inexcitability, inobservance, insouciance, lack of affect, lackadaisicalness, levity, lightmindedness, listlessness, mindlessness, negligence, nonchalance, nonobservance, obliviousness, pococurantism, recklessness, regardlessness, shallowness, sloth, superficiality, thoughtlessness, unalertness, unanxiousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unsolicitousness, unwariness, unwatchfulness

• incurious, absent, absentminded, abstracted, aloof, apathetic, ataractic, blase, bored, careless, casual, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant, distracted, distrait, distraught, easygoing, heedless, impassive, inadvertent, inattentive, indifferent, inexcitable, inobservant, insouciant, lackadaisical, listless, mindless, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, preoccupied, reckless, regardless, remote, stolid, thoughtless, turned-off, unanxious, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unheedful, unheeding, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unremarking, unsolicitous, withdrawn

• incursion, air attack, air raid, air strike, boarding, encroachment, entrance, entrenchment, escalade, fire raid, foray, impingement, imposition, infiltration, influx, infraction, infringement, injection, inroad, insinuation, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, obtrusion, overstepping, raid, razzia, saturation raid, scaling, shuttle raid, transgression, trespass, trespassing, unlawful entry, usurpation

• incurve, arch, bend, bend back, bow, bowl, cast, change of pace, change-up, chuck, chunk, crook, cup, curl, curve, decurve, deflect, dish, dome, downcurve, embow, fastball, flex, fling, flip, forward pass, heave, hollow, hook, hump, hunch, hurl, incurvate, inflect, knuckleball, lateral, lateral pass, lob, loop, outcurve, pass, peg, pitch, put, recurve, reflect, reflex, retire, retreat, retroflex, round, sag, screwball, serve, service, shot-put, shy, sinker, slider, sling, spitball, spitter, swag, sweep, throw, toss, turn, upcurve, vault, wind

• incurved, bent, billowing, billowy, boat-shaped, boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, cymbiform, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, geosynclinal, hollow, hollowed, incurvate, incurvated, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, navicular, naviform, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, retiring, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, serpentine, sinuous, spoonlike, sunk, sunken, tortuous, undulant, wavy

• indebted to, acknowledging, appreciative, beholden, beholden to, bound, bounden, bounden to, cognizant of, committed, crediting, duty-bound, grateful, in duty bound, much obliged, obligate, obligated, obliged, obliged to, pledged, saddled, sensible, thankful, tied, under obligation

• indebted, beholden, bound, burdened with debt, deep in debt, duty-bound, embarrassed, encumbered, in debt, in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock, in the hole, in the red, insolvent, involved, liable, mortgaged, obligated, obliged, owing, plunged in debt, responsible, tied up, unsound

• indebtedness, accounts payable, accounts receivable, amount due, arrearage, arrears, bad debts, bankruptcy, bill, bills, borrowing, charges, chits, debt, delinquency, due, dues, failure, financial commitment, floating debt, funded debt, indebtment, insolvency, liability, maturity, national debt, nonpayment, obligation, outstanding debt, pledge, public debt, score, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge

• indecency, Babbittry, andromania, aphrodisia, bad taste, biological urge, bodily appetite, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, carnal desire, concupiscence, desire, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, high camp, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infantile sexuality, itch, kitsch, lasciviousness, libidinousness, low camp, lust, lustfulness, maculacy, nymphomania, passion, philistinism, polymorphous perversity, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prurience, pruriency, satyriasis, satyrism, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, soiledness, sulliedness, taintedness, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchasteness, unchastity, uncleanliness, uncleanness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unvirtuousness, venereal appetite, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness

• indecent, besmirched, blue, chintzy, coarse, debauched, defiled, degenerate, dirty, distasteful, filthy, foul, gross, ill-mannered, immodest, improper, impure, in bad taste, inappropriate, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, ithyphallic, lascivious, lewd, licentious, lubricious, lubricous, maculate, malodorous, nasty, obscene, offensive, outrageous, pornographic, prurient, rank, raunchy, repellent, repulsive, ridiculous, risque, rude, salacious, scatological, shameful, shameless, smirched, smutty, soiled, suggestive, sullied, tainted, tasteless, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unchaste, unclean, undecorous, undignified, unfit, unfitting, ungenteel, ungodly, unseemly, unsuitable, untasteful, untoward, unvirginal, unvirtuous, vile, vulgar

• indecision, ambitendency, ambivalence, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, erraticism, erraticness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, fluctuation, hesitancy, hesitation, incalculability, incertitude, inconstancy, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, luck, mercuriality, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, randomness, second thoughts, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, suspense, suspensefulness, tergiversation, to-and-fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, wavering, whimsicality

• indecisive, adrift, afloat, agnostic, aleatoric, aleatory, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, at loose ends, baggy, bland, blobby, blurred, blurry, borderline, broad, capricious, chance, chancy, changeable, changeful, chaotic, characterless, confused, desultory, deviable, dicey, disordered, disorderly, dizzy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, eccentric, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fast and loose, featureless, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy, formless, freakish, fuzzy, general, giddy, groundless, halfhearted, halting, hazy, hesitant, hesitating, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, impetuous, imprecise, impulsive, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate, incoherent, inconclusive, inconsistent, inconstant, indefinable, indefinite, indemonstrable, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, infirm, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, inform, insipid, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, mazy, mercurial, milk-and-water, milky, misty, moody, moot, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mushy, mutable, namby-pamby, neutral, nondescript, nonspecific, not following, not proved, obscure, of two minds, open, orderless, polysemous, problematic, rambling, random, restless, roving, scatterbrained, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shallying, shuffling, skeptical, spasmodic, spineless, stochastic, sweeping, tasteless, tentative, tergiversating, touch-and-go, unaccountable, unascertained, unattested, unauthenticated, uncertain, uncertified, unclear, unconfirmable, unconfirmed, uncontrolled, unconvinced, uncorroborated, undecided, undefined, undemonstrated, undependable, undestined, undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, unestablished, unfixed, unforeseeable, unfounded, unordered, unorganized, unpersuaded, unplain, unpredictable, unprovable, unproved, unproven, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unshown, unspecified, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantiated, unsupported, unsupported by evidence, unsure, unsustained, untested, untried, unvalidated, unverifiable, unverified, vacillating, vagrant, vague, vapid, variable, veiled, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, watery, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, without basis, without grounds

• indecisiveness, ambitendency, ambivalence, amiable weakness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, blobbiness, blurriness, breakability, brittleness, broadness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, chaos, collapse, confusion, daintiness, delicacy, destructibility, disintegration, disorder, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, effeminacy, entropy, erraticism, erraticness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, flimsiness, fogginess, formlessness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, fuzziness, generality, haziness, hesitancy, hesitation, human frailty, ill-definedness, imprecision, inaccuracy, incalculability, incertitude, inchoateness, incoherence, inconstancy, indecision, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination, indeterminism, indistinctness, inexactness, infirmity of purpose, infirmity of will, inherent vice, instability, irresolution, laxity, lightness, looseness, luck, mercuriality, messiness, mistiness, moral weakness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, obscuration, obscurity, orderlessness, randomness, second thoughts, shapelessness, shilly-shally, sleaziness, slightness, suspense, suspensefulness, sweepingness, tergiversation, to-and-fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unclearness, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unsubstantiality, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, vagueness, velleity, wavering, whimsicality, wispiness, womanishness

• indecorous, Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, cacophonous, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, criminal, crude, delinquent, deviant, discourteous, disgraceful, doggerel, dysphemistic, evil, graceless, gross, hardly the thing, harsh, ignominious, ill-mannered, illegal, immodest, impolite, improper, impure, in bad taste, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, infamous, infelicitous, irregular, loose, low, malodorous, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, offensive, out-of-line, outlandish, ridiculous, rough, rude, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, tasteless, terrible, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncivil, uncourtly, uncouth, undecorous, undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfit, unfitting, ungenteel, ungodly, ungraceful, unlawful, unpolished, unrefined, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, untasteful, untoward, vulgar, wicked, wrong, wrongful

• indecorum, Babbittry, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, bad taste, blooper, boner, boo-boo, bourgeois taste, break, camp, campiness, criminality, delinquency, deviance, deviancy, faux pas, gaffe, high camp, illegality, improperness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, infraction, kitsch, low camp, philistinism, poor taste, pop, pop culture, sinfulness, solecism, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, unfitness, unfittingness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unrighteousness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, violation, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wickedness, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness

• indeed, OK, Roger, a fortiori, above all, absolutely, actually, all joking aside, all right, all the more, alright, alrighty, amen, and no mistake, as you say, assuredly, at all events, at any rate, aye, by all means, certainly, chiefly, clearly, da, decidedly, decisively, definitely, demonstrably, distinctly, dominantly, doubtlessly, easily, especially, even, ever so, exactly, factually, fine, first of all, for a certainty, for a fact, for certain, for real, for sure, forsooth, good, good enough, hear, historically, in all conscience, in chief, in fact, in reality, in the main, in truth, in very sooth, indeedy, indubitably, ja, just so, mainly, mais oui, manifestly, more than ever, most assuredly, most certainly, mostly, naturally, naturellement, nay, never so, no end, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of a truth, of course, okay, oui, particularly, patently, peculiarly, positively, precisely, predominantly, primarily, principally, quite, rather, really, really-truly, right, righto, sensibly, seriously, still, still more, sure, sure thing, surely, to a certainty, to be sure, truly, truthfully, unambiguously, undeniably, undoubtedly, unequivocally, unmistakably, verily, veritably, very well, visibly, well and good, why yes, with truth, without doubt, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

• indefatigable, abiding, ardent, assiduous, constant, continuing, continuous, determined, diligent, dogged, enduring, energetic, faithful, fervent, hard, hardworking, immutable, inalterable, indomitable, industrious, inexhaustible, insistent, invincible, laborious, lasting, loyal, never idle, never-tiring, obstinate, painstaking, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, remaining, resolute, sedulous, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, strenuous, stubborn, sustained, tenacious, tireless, unabating, unceasing, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, undying, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vehement, vigorous, weariless, zealous

• indefeasible, certain, changeless, constant, fated, fateful, immutable, inalienable, incommunicable, incommutable, inconvertible, ineluctable, inert, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, irresistible, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lasting, necessary, noble, noncommunicable, noncontagious, noninfectious, nonreturnable, nonreversible, permanent, relentless, resistless, reverseless, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unavoidable, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncontrollable, undeflectable, undeviating, unimpartable, unmodifiable, unpreventable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unstoppable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying, unyielding

• indefensible, exceptionable, impossible, inadmissible, inexcusable, inexpiable, intolerable, irremissible, objectionable, unacceptable, unallowable, unconscionable, undesirable, unforgivable, unjustifiable, unpardonable, unreasonable, unsuitable, untenable, unwarrantable

• indefinable, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, confused, disordered, enwrapped in mystery, foggy, fuzzy, general, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, incommunicable, indecisive, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, ineffable, inenarrable, inexact, inexplicable, inexpressible, inextricable, innominable, insoluble, insolvable, lax, loose, mysterious, mystic, noncommunicable, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, random, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stochastic, sweeping, unaccountable, unclear, undefinable, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unexplainable, uninterpretable, unmentionable, unnameable, unplain, unsolvable, unspeakable, unspecified, untellable, unutterable, unwhisperable, vague, veiled

• indefinite, abstract, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baffling, baggy, bewildering, bland, blear, bleared, bleary, blobby, blurred, blurry, boundless, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, collective, confused, confusing, cryptic, dark, dim, disordered, disorderly, endless, enduring, equivocal, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, foggy, formless, fuzzy, general, generalized, generic, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, hesitant, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immeasurable, imprecise, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, inconstant, indecisive, indefinable, indelible, indestructible, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexact, inexplicit, infinite, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, limitless, loose, low-profile, lumpen, measureless, merely glimpsed, misty, mystifying, nebulous, neutral, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, out of focus, pale, permanent, puzzling, random, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, shilly-shallying, stochastic, sub judice, sweeping, unbounded, uncertain, uncharacterized, unclear, uncountable, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undestined, undestroyable, undetermined, undifferentiated, unerasable, unfixed, unknown, unlimited, unmeasured, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unrecognizable, unsettled, unspecific, unspecified, unsure, vacillating, vague, veiled, wavering, weak, wide, wishy-washy

• indefinitely, a outrance, absolutely, all out, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, broadly, completely, dead, downright, essentially, extremely, flat out, fundamentally, generally, immeasurably, in the extreme, incalculably, indecisively, indefinably, indeterminably, indistinctly, infinitely, most, obscurely, perfectly, purely, radically, totally, unconditionally, unequivocally, utterly, vaguely, with a vengeance

• indeliberate, automatic, casual, gut, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, inadvertent, involuntary, reflex, reflexive, snap, spontaneous, unadvised, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, unintended, unintentional, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unstudied, unwilled

• indelible, absorbing, acute, colorfast, constant, deathless, deep, deep-dyed, deep-felt, deepgoing, double-dyed, dyed-in-the-wool, enduring, fadeless, fast, fixed, haunting, heartfelt, homefelt, immortal, imperishable, impregnable, incorruptible, indestructible, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, ingrain, ingrained, invincible, invulnerable, keen, lasting, nagging, nonperishable, obsessive, penetrating, permanent, persistent, pervading, piercing, poignant, profound, quenchless, recurrent, sharp, undampable, undestroyable, undying, unerasable, unfading, unforgettable, unquenchable

• indelicacy, Babbittry, bad taste, boorishness, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, churlishness, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, high camp, immodesty, impoliteness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incivility, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, kitsch, low camp, offensiveness, philistinism, poor taste, pop, pop culture, roughness, rudeness, shamelessness, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, uncourtliness, unfittingness, unmannerliness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness

• indelicate, callow, chintzy, crude, improper, in bad taste, inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, indiscreet, inelegant, lewd, malodorous, offensive, rough, rude, tasteless, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncouth, undecorous, undignified, unfitting, ungenteel, ungodly, unseemly, unsuitable, untasteful, untoward, vulgar, wanton

• indemnification, amends, atonement, balancing, blood money, commutation, compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation, expiatory offering, guerdon, honorarium, indemnity, lex talionis, making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed, offsetting, paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price, propitiation, quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption, redress, refund, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, repayment, reprisal, requital, requitement, restitution, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, salvage, satisfaction, smart money, solatium, squaring, substitution, wergild

• indemnify, atone, compensate, cover, do penance, expiate, fee, fill up, get satisfaction, give and take, give satisfaction, guerdon, make amends, make compensation, make good, make reparation, make requital, make restitution, make retribution, make up for, pay, pay back, pay by installments, pay damages, pay off, pay on, prepay, quit, recompense, rectify, redress, refund, reimburse, remit, remunerate, render, repay, requite, retaliate, reward, salary, satisfy, set right, square, tender

• indemnity, absolution, amends, amnesty, assurance, atonement, award, balancing, blood money, bond, certification, commutation, compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, disbursement, endorsement, exculpation, excuse, exemption, exoneration, expiation, expiatory offering, grace, guarantee, guaranty, guerdon, honorarium, immunity, impunity, indemnification, insurance, lex talionis, making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed, nolle prosequi, non prosequitur, nonprosecution, offsetting, pardon, payment, peace offering, piaculum, price, privilege, propitiation, protection, quid pro quo, quittance, reckoning, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption, redress, reimbursement, remission, remission of sin, remuneration, reparation, repayment, reprieve, reprisal, requital, requitement, restitution, restoration, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, safety, salvage, satisfaction, security, shrift, smart money, solatium, sparing, squaring, stay, stocks and bonds, substitution, surety, tie, warrant, warranty, wergild

• indemonstrable, agnostic, ambiguous, capricious, chancy, changeable, dicey, doubting, equivocal, erratic, fickle, hesitant, hesitating, incalculable, indecisive, irresolute, polysemous, skeptical, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, unverifiable, variable, wavering, whimsical

• indent, Vandyke, address, adopt, adoption, alveolation, alveolus, application, apply for, appropriate, appropriation, arrangement, arrogate, arrogation, ask, ask for, asking, assume, assumption, bear down, beck, beck and call, beg leave, bespeak, bid come, bidding, blackmail, blaze, bond, boss, bring low, bump, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up, calling, calling forth, challenge, chop, cite, claim, clamor for, colonization, colonize, colophon, concavity, conjure, conjure up, conquer, conquest, contract by deed, contract of record, contract quasi, contribution, convene, convexity, convocation, convoke, couch, covenant of indemnity, crave, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cry for, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, debase, debenture, debenture bond, deed, deed of trust, deed poll, demand, demand for, dent, depress, desire, detrude, dimple, dint, downbear, draft, drain, duty, embossment, engrave, enslave, enslavement, evocation, evoke, exact, exaction, excrescence, expressed desire, extort, extortion, extortionate demand, file for, fingerprint, footmark, footprint, footstep, formal contract, fossil footprint, furrow, gash, gouge, group policy, haul down, heavy demand, hog, honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, impetration, implied contract, impose, imposition, impost, impress, impression, imprint, incise, indentation, indention, indenture, insistent demand, insurance policy, invocation, invoke, issue an ultimatum, jag, jump a claim, knurl, let down, levy, lower, lump, machicolate, make a demand, make a request, make a requisition, make application, make free with, make use of, mill, monopolize, mortgage deed, muster, muster up, nick, nod, nonnegotiable demand, notch, notice, occupation, occupy, order, order up, overrun, pad, page, parol contract, paw print, pawmark, petition, picot, pimple, pink, pit, place an order, pock, pockmark, policy, preconization, preconize, preempt, preemption, preoccupation, preoccupy, prepossess, prepossession, press down, press in, print, promissory note, pug, pugmark, pull down, punch, punch in, push down, put in for, put in requisition, recall, recess, recognizance, reduce, request, require, requirement, requisition, rush, rush order, scallop, scarify, score, scotch, screw, seal, send after, send for, serrate, serve, set back, set in, sigil, signet, sink, sit on, slash, special contract, specialty, specialty contract, squat on, stamp, step, stud, subjugate, subjugation, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, sunken part, take all of, take down, take it all, take over, take possession of, take up, takeover, taking over, tamp, tax, taxing, thrust down, thumbmark, thumbprint, title deed, tooth, tribute, ultimatum, usurp, usurpation, vestige, warn, warning, whistle for, wish

• indentation, alveolation, alveolus, blaze, boss, bump, cleft, colophon, concavity, convexity, crena, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, depression, digging, dimple, dint, embossment, engraving, excavation, excrescence, feel, fingerprint, finish, footmark, footprint, footstep, fossil footprint, furrow, gash, gouge, grain, granular texture, hack, hollow, honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, incision, indent, indention, indenture, jag, jog, joggle, kerf, knub, lump, mark, mining, nap, nick, nock, notch, nub, pad, paw print, pawmark, pile, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, print, protuberance, pug, pugmark, score, scotch, seal, shag, sigil, signet, stamp, step, structure, stud, sunken part, surface, surface texture, texture, thumbmark, thumbprint, vestige, wale, weave, woof

• indented, alveolar, alveolate, battlemented, chopped, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, dentate, dentated, dented, depressed, dimpled, embrasured, engraved, erose, faveolate, gashed, honeycombed, incised, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, nicked, notched, pitted, pocked, pockmarked, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, toothed

• indenture, Fannie Mae, Federal Agency bond, Ginnie Mae, Series E bond, Series H bond, adjustment bond, alveolation, alveolus, annuity bond, appreciation bond, apprentice, apprenticeship, arrangement, article, assented bond, assumed bond, baby bond, bearer bond, bearer certificate, bind, bind over, binding over, bond, bond anticipation note, callable bond, collateral trust bond, consolidated annuities, consolidated stock, consols, contract by deed, contract of record, contract quasi, convertible bond, convertible debenture, corporate bond, corporation stock, coupon bond, coupon rate, covenant of indemnity, current income bond, current yield, debenture, debenture bond, deed, deed of trust, deed poll, deep-discount bond, defense bond, deferred bond, definitive bond, dent, dimple, dint, discount bond, equipment bond, equipment note, equipment trust, equipment trust bond, equipment trust certificate, extended bond, first mortgage bond, firsts, formal contract, furrow, general mortgage bond, general obligation bond, gouge, government bond, group policy, guaranteed bond, high-grade bond, honeycomb, implied contract, impress, impression, imprint, income bond, indent, indentation, indention, insurance policy, interchangeable bond, interim bond, joint bond, mortgage bond, mortgage deed, municipal bond, negotiable bond, nick, nominal rate, nonnegotiable bond, notch, optional bond, par bond, parol contract, participating bond, pock, pockmark, policy, premium bond, print, promissory note, purchase money bond, recognizance, refunding bond, registered bond, registered certificate, revenue bond, savings bond, second mortgage bond, seconds, secured bond, small bond, special contract, specialty, specialty contract, state bond, sunken part, tax anticipation note, tax-free bond, title deed, treasury bond, trust indenture, trustee mortgage bond, unsecured bond, voting bond, war bond, yield to maturity

• independence, Communist threat, Declaration of Independence, Western imperialism, abstention, affluence, anythingarianism, aplomb, arrogance, assets, atrocity story, autarchy, autarky, autonomousness, autonomy, banner, battle hymn, bloody shirt, boastfulness, bottomless purse, bulging purse, colors, composure, conceit, confidence, constraint, control, cop-out, crostarie, disassociation, discipline, disconnection, discreteness, disjunction, disjuncture, dissociation, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, evasion, expansionism, face, fence-sitting, fiery cross, fortune, free will, freedom, gold, gonfalon, gratuitousness, handsome fortune, haughtiness, high income, high tax bracket, home rule, immateriality, impartiality, imperialist threat, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, inconnection, inconsequence, individualism, inner-direction, internationalism, internationality, irrelation, irrelevance, liberty, lucre, luxuriousness, mammon, manifest destiny, martial music, material wealth, money, money to burn, moneybags, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, national anthem, nationalism, nationality, nationhood, neutralism, neutrality, nonalignment, noncommitment, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, opulence, opulency, pardonable pride, pelf, peoplehood, possession, possessions, pride, pridefulness, property, prosperity, prosperousness, proudness, purse-pride, restraint, riches, richness, rugged individualism, self-action, self-activity, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-conquest, self-consequence, self-containment, self-control, self-denial, self-determination, self-direction, self-discipline, self-esteem, self-government, self-help, self-helpfulness, self-improvement, self-mastery, self-possession, self-reliance, self-respect, self-restraint, self-sufficiency, self-sustainment, separateness, six-figure income, sovereign nationhood, sovereignty, spontaneity, spontaneousness, statehood, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, strict neutrality, substance, treasure, unconnectedness, unforcedness, unrelatedness, upper bracket, vanity, voluntariness, voluntarism, voluntaryism, volunteer, volunteering, war song, wealth, wealthiness, yellow peril

• independent, Laodicean, abounding in riches, affluent, alien, anythingarian, apart, apart from, apathetic, arbitrary, aside from, autarchic, autarkic, autonomous, barring, besides, beyond, big-rich, bold, centrist, comfortable, competent, controlled, detached, disconnected, discrete, discretional, discretionary, disgustingly rich, disinterested, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distinct, elective, erect, even, except for, excluding, exclusive of, exotic, external, extraneous, fat, fence-sitter, fifty-fifty, firm-minded, flush, foreign, forward, free, free lance, free spirit, free trader, free will, free-spirited, freethinker, freewheeling, frightfully rich, gratuitous, half-and-half, house-proud, ignoring, impartial, importunate, in funds, in the money, incommensurable, incomparable, independently rich, independently wealthy, indifferent, individual, individualist, individualistic, inner-directed, insular, irrelative, irrespective of, isolated, isolationist, latitudinarian, liberal, libertarian, libertine, loaded, loner, luxurious, made of money, maverick, midway, moderate, moneyed, mugwump, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonconformist, nonmandatory, nonpartisan, nothingarian, notwithstanding, offered, on the fence, oofy, optional, opulent, other, outlandish, outside, passive, prideful, proffered, prosperous, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, provided for, purse-proud, pushy, removed, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling in money, rugged individualist, segregate, self-acting, self-active, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-assured, self-centered, self-confident, self-contained, self-controlled, self-dependent, self-determined, self-determining, self-directing, self-esteeming, self-expressive, self-governed, self-governing, self-helpful, self-helping, self-improving, self-possessed, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-restrained, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-sustained, self-sustaining, separate, separated, sovereign, spontaneous, stiff-necked, strange, strong-minded, strong-willed, swing vote, third force, third world, third-force, third-world, unaffiliated, unallied, unasked, unassociated, unbesought, unbiased, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncommitted, uncommitted voter, uncompelled, unconnected, uncontrolled, undecided, unearned, unfettered, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, uninvolved, unlimited, unprejudiced, unpressured, unprompted, unrelatable, unrelated, unrequested, unrequired, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsolicited, unsought, voluntary, volunteer, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, willful

• independently, alone, by choice, electively, en grand seigneur, erectly, freely, gratuitously, individually, like a lord, optionally, pridefully, proudly, self-confidently, self-reliantly, self-respectingly, spontaneously, voluntarily, willfully, with head erect, with pride, without coercion

• indescribable, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, incommunicable, indefinable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, innominable, legendary, marvelous, mythical, noncommunicable, noteworthy, phenomenal, portentous, prodigious, remarkable, stupefying, stupendous, undefinable, unexampled, unmentionable, unnameable, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable, unwhisperable, wonderful

• indestructible, ageless, ceaseless, changeless, coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, dateless, deathless, durable, endless, enduring, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, fixed, immemorial, immortal, immutable, imperishable, impregnable, incessant, incorruptible, indelible, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, infinite, interminable, invincible, invulnerable, irrefragable, lasting, long-lasting, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonperishable, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, quenchless, sempiternal, steady, timeless, unalterable, unbreakable, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanging, undampable, undestroyable, undying, unending, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unquenchable, unremitting, without end

• indeterminate, abstract, accidental, adventitious, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, bland, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, collective, confused, contingent, dark, destinal, dicey, dim, disordered, disorderly, fatal, fatidic, featureless, fluky, foggy, formless, fortuitous, fuzzy, general, generalized, generic, hazy, hit-or-miss, iffy, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incidental, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indistinct, inexact, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, misty, muddy, murky, nebulous, neutral, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, opaque, orderless, random, risky, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stochastic, sweeping, transcendent, uncaused, uncharacterized, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undifferentiated, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unpredictable, unspecified, vague, veiled, wide

• index, Art Index, Baedeker, Bibliography Index, Books in Print, Cumulative Book Index, Education Index, Eighteenth Amendment, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, National Union Catalog, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, Yellow Pages, acknowledgments, aeronautical chart, alphabetize, analyze, annotated bibliography, annual bibliography, annulary, aroma, arrange, arrow, assort, astronomical chart, atlas, attribute, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, back, back matter, backlist, badge, ban, banner, bastard title, bibliography, bibliography of bibliographies, blaze, book, brand, break down, broad hint, business directory, cachet, calendar, card index, cartographer, cartography, carve, casebook, cast, catalog, catalogue, catalogue raisonne, catch line, catchword, categorize, celestial chart, celestial globe, census, chalk, chalk up, character, characteristic, chart, check in, checklist, chorographer, chorography, chronicle, city directory, class, classified catalog, classified directory, classify, climatic chart, clue, code, codify, colophon, compass needle, composition, concordance, configuration, conic projection, constituents, content, contents, contents page, contour line, contour map, contraband, copyright page, critical bibliography, cue, cut, cyclopedia, cylindrical projection, dactylion, dedication, denial, device, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, differentia, differential, digest, digit, direction, direction post, directory, disallowance, distinctive feature, divide, divisions, docket, earmark, elements, embargo, encyclopedia, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, errata, evidence, exclusion, factor, feature, figure, figures, file, fill out, finding list, finger, finger post, fist, flavor, flyleaf, folio, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, fore edge, forefinger, foreword, formula, front matter, gazetteer, general reference map, gentle hint, gesture, glimmer, glimmering, globe, gnomonic projection, grade, graphic scale, grave, grid line, group, guide, guideboard, guidebook, guidepost, gust, guts, hachure, half-title page, hallmark, hand, handbook, handlist, harmony, head, heliographic chart, hint, hour hand, hydrographic chart, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, image, impanel, implication, impress, impression, imprint, incise, index expurgatorius, index finger, index librorum prohibitorum, indexes, indicant, indication, indicator, indices, individualism, ingredients, inhibition, injunction, inkling, innards, innuendo, inscribe, inscription, insert, insides, insignia, insinuation, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, intimation, introduction, inventory, isoline, itemize, items, itinerary, jot down, keep score, key, keynote, kick, latitude, law, layer tint, lead, leaf, legend, lineaments, list, listing, little finger, log, longitude, look, lubber line, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, makeup, mannerism, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, mark, mark down, marker, marking, matriculate, measure, medius, meridian, middle finger, milepost, minimus, minute, minute hand, mold, nature, needle, no-no, nod, note, note down, nudge, odor, order, page, parallel, part, particularity, parts, peculiarity, periodical index, phone book, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, picture, pigeonhole, pinkie, place, place upon record, pointer, political map, poll, pollex, polyconic projection, polyglot, post, post up, preclusion, preface, preliminaries, prevention, program, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, projection, prompt, property, proscription, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quality, quirk, range, rank, rate, ratio, record, record book, recto, reduce to writing, reference book, refusal, register, rejection, relief map, representation, representative, representative fraction, repression, restrictive covenants, reverso, ring finger, road map, roadbook, ruling out, running title, savor, scale, scent, schedule, score, seal, set down, shape, sigil, sign, signal, signature, signboard, significant, signpost, singularity, sinusoidal projection, smack, sort, source book, special map, specialty, spoor, stamp, statistics, statute, studbook, subdivide, subtitle, suggestion, sumptuary laws, suppression, sure sign, suspicion, symptom, table, table of contents, table of organization, taboo, tabulate, tail, taint, take down, tally, tang, tape, tape-record, taste, telephone book, telephone directory, telltale, telltale sign, terrain map, terrestrial globe, text, thematic map, thesaurus, thumb, thumb index, title, title page, token, topographer, topographic chart, topography, track, trait, transportation map, trick, trim size, type, type page, verso, videotape, vital statistics, weather chart, weather map, whisper, whole, wink, work of reference, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, zoning, zoning laws

• indexed, assorted, booked, cadastral, cataloged, classified, documented, down, enrolled, entered, enumerated, filed, graded, grouped, hierarchic, inscribed, inventorial, itemized, legal, listed, logged, minuted, of record, official, on file, on record, on the books, pigeonholed, placed, posted, programmed, pyramidal, ranked, rated, recorded, registered, scheduled, sorted, stratified, tabular, tabulated, tallied, written down

• Indian file, array, articulation, bank, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, course, cycle, descent, drone, endless belt, endless round, file, filiation, gamut, gradation, hum, line, lineage, monotone, nexus, pendulum, periodicity, plenum, powder train, progression, queue, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, string, succession, swath, thread, tier, train, windrow

• Indian reservation, archives, bank, bird sanctuary, forest preserve, game reserve, library, museum, national forest, national park, paradise, park, preserve, reservation, reserve, sanctuary, state forest, store, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve

• Indian, American Indian, Amerind, Antarctic, Arctic, Atlantic, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Pacific, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man

• indicate, adumbrate, affect, allude to, approve, argue, assign, attest, augur, be construed as, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, call attention to, call for, characterize, connote, dangle, demand, demonstrate, denominate, denote, designate, determine, develop, differentiate, direct attention to, disclose, display, divine, divulge, dramatize, drop a hint, embody, enact, entail, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose to view, express, fix, flaunt, flourish, foretoken, furnish evidence, give a hint, give evidence, give indication of, give sign, give the cue, give token, glance at, go to show, highlight, hint, hint at, identify, illuminate, illustrate, imply, import, incarnate, indicate, insinuate, intimate, involve, make clear, make known, make plain, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, mention, name, need, note, parade, perform, pick out, pin down, point out, point to, prefigure, preindicate, present, presign, presignal, presignify, pretypify, produce, prompt, recommend, refer to, register, represent, require, reveal, roll out, say, select, set, set forth, show, show forth, show signs of, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, specialize, specify, spell, spotlight, stand for, state, stipulate, suggest, symbolize, symptomatize, symptomize, tell, tend to show, testify, token, trot out, typify, unfold, wave

• indicated, assumed, augured, called for, essential, foreshadowed, foreshown, foretokened, hinted, implicated, implied, indispensable, inferred, intimated, involved, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, meant, necessary, needed, needful, predicted, prefigured, preindicated, prerequisite, presaged, presignified, presumed, presupposed, pretypified, prognosticated, promised, required, requisite, signified, suggested, supposed, threatened, unforgoable, vital, wanted

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

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