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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

ill-proportioned
adjective lacking pleasing proportions

ill-sorted
incompatible adjective not easy to combine harmoniously

ill-timed
unseasonable adjective badly timed; `an ill-timed intervention`; `you think my intrusion unseasonable`; `an untimely remark`; `it was the wrong moment for a joke`

ill-treated
maltreated adjective subjected to cruel treatment; `an abused wife`

ill-used
put-upon adjective of persons; taken advantage of; `after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used`

illative
adjective expressing or preceding an inference; ``therefore` is an illative word`

illegal
adjective prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; `an illegal chess move`

illegal possession
noun possession of controlled substances

illegality
noun unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute

illegally
illicitly 1 lawlessly adverb in an illegal manner; `they dumped the waste illegally`

illegibility
noun writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered

illegible
adjective (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible; `illegible handwriting`

illegibly
undecipherably adverb in an illegible manner; `this student writes illegibly`

illegitimacy
noun unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law

illegitimate
illicit adjective contrary to or forbidden by law; `an illegitimate seizure of power`; `illicit trade`; `an outlaw strike`; `unlawful measures`

illegitimately
out of wedlock adverb of biological parents not married to each other; `this child was born illegitimately`

illegitimately
adverb in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom; `He acted illegitimately when he increased the rent fourfold`

illiberal
intolerant adjective narrow-minded about cherished opinions

illiberality
noun a disposition not to be liberal (generous) with money

illicit
adjective contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention; `an illicit association with his secretary`

illicitly
adverb in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom; `He acted illegitimately when he increased the rent fourfold`

illicitness
noun the quality of not conforming strictly to law

Illicium anisatum
noun small shrubby tree of Japan and Taiwan; flowers are not fragrant

illimitable
limitless adjective without limits in extent or size or quantity; `immeasurable vastness of our solar system`

Illinois
noun the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami

illiteracy
analphabetism noun an inability to read

illiterate
adjective not able to read or write

illiterate
adjective uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; `she is ignorant of quantum mechanics`; `he is musically illiterate`

illogical
adjective lacking in correct logical relation

illogicality
illogicalness noun invalid or incorrect reasoning

illogically
adverb in an illogical manner; `she acted illogically under the pressure`

illuminance
illumination noun the luminous flux incident on a unit area

illuminate
verb add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)

illuminated
lighted adjective provided with artificial light; `illuminated advertising`; `looked up at the lighted windows`; `a brightly lit room`; `a well-lighted stairwell`

illuminating
adjective providing light; `the sun`s illuminating rays`

illumination
noun painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)

illusion
noun something many people believe that is false; `they have the illusion that I am very wealthy`

illusion
noun an erroneous mental representation

illusional
illusionary adjective marked by or producing illusion; `illusionary stage effects`

illusive
illusory adjective based on or having the nature of an illusion; `illusive hopes of finding a better job`; `Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy`

illustrate
verb depict with an illustration

illustration
noun a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

illustrious
adjective having or conferring glory; `an illustrious achievement`

illustriously
adverb in an illustrious manner; `Einstein, the illustriously famous physicist of the 20th century`

Illyria
noun an uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived

Illyrian
noun a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast

image
mental image noun an iconic mental representation; `her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate`

image breaker
noun a destroyer of images used in religious worship

image compression
noun the compression of graphics for storage or transmission

imaginary place
mythical place noun a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings

imagination
imagery noun the ability to form mental images of things or events; `he could still hear her in his imagination`

imagination image
thought-image noun a mental image produced by the imagination

imaginative
ingenious adjective (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; `an imaginative use of material`; `the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman`- Lewis Mumford; `an ingenious device`; `had an inventive turn of mind`; `inventive ceramics`

imaginatively
adverb with imagination; `the room was decorated very imaginatively`

imaginativeness
noun the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; `popular imagination created a world of demons`; `imagination reveals what the world could be`

imagine
conceive of 1 ideate 1 envisage verb form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; `Can you conceive of him as the president?`

imaging
tomography noun (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

imaging
imagery noun the ability to form mental images of things or events; `he could still hear her in his imagination`

imagism
noun a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery

imago
noun an adult insect produced after metamorphosis

imaret
noun a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey

imbecile
imbecilic adjective having a mental age of three to seven years

imbecility
noun retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot

imbibe
verb receive into the mind and retain; `Imbibe ethical principles`

imbricate
imbricated adjective used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles

imbrication
overlapping noun covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)

imbroglio
noun a very embarrassing misunderstanding

imbrue
verb permeate or impregnate; `The war drenched the country in blood`

imbue
hue verb suffuse with color

imipramine
impramine hydrochloride noun a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression

imitate
copy verb reproduce someone`s behavior or looks; `The mime imitated the passers-by`; `Children often copy their parents or older siblings`

imitation
counterfeit noun a copy that is represented as the original

imitative
adjective marked by or given to imitation; `acting is an imitative art`; `man is an imitative being`

imitative electronic deception
electronic imitative deception noun the introduction of electromagnetic energy into enemy systems that imitates enemy emissions

immaculate
speckless adjective completely neat and clean; `the apartment was immaculate`; `in her immaculate white uniform`; `a spick-and-span kitchen`; `their spic red-visored caps`

Immaculate Conception
Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary noun (Christianity) the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the moment she was conceived

immaculately
adverb in an immaculate manner; `gone was the casually dressed Canadian she had thought a backwoodsman--this man was immaculately tailored`

immanent
adjective of qualities that are spread throughout something; `ambition is immanent in human nature`; `we think of God as immanent in nature`

immaterial
indifferent adjective (often followed by `to`) lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; `whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)`; `what others think is altogether indifferent to him`

immaterial
adjective not consisting of matter; `immaterial apparitions`; `ghosts and other immaterial entities`

immateriality
incorporeality noun the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter

immaterialize
immaterialise verb render immaterial or incorporeal

immature
unformed adjective lacking in development; `immature plans`; `an unformed character`

immaturely
jejunely adverb in an immature manner; `his teenage son still behaves very immaturely`

immeasurable
unmeasurable adjective impossible to measure; `unmeasurable reaches of outer space`

immeasurably
adverb to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement; `the war left him immeasurably fearful of what man can do to man`

immediacy
immediate apprehension noun immediate intuitive awareness

immediacy
noun the quickness of action or occurrence; `the immediacy of their response`; `the instancy of modern communication`

immediate
prompt adjective performed with little or no delay; `an immediate reply to my letter`; `prompt obedience`; `was quick to respond`; `a straightaway denial`

immediate constituent
noun a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate

immediate payment
noun prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check

immediately
instantly adverb without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; `he answered immediately`; `found an answer straightaway`; `an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith`; `Come here now!`

immediateness
noun the quickness of action or occurrence; `the immediacy of their response`; `the instancy of modern communication`

immemorial(ip)
adjective long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; `time immemorial`

immense
Brobdingnagian adjective unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; `huge government spending`; `huge country estates`; `huge popular demand for higher education`; `a huge wave`; `the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains`; `immense numbers of birds`; `at vast (or immense) expense`; `the vast reaches of outer space`; `the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization`- W.R.Inge

immerse
verb thrust or throw into; `Immerse yourself in hot water`

immerse
swallow up verb enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; `The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter`

immersion
noun a form of baptism in which part or all of a person`s body is submerged

immersion heater
noun a heating element that is immersed in the liquid that is to be heated (as in a hot-water tank)

immigrant class
noun recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds