Words Starting With "I"

1. Ignominy (N) – infamy; scandal; disgrace
2. Ignominy [N] – shame or humiliation; disgrace; the ignominy of defeat
3. Illation (N) – illation is the act of drawing of drawing conclusion; inference; my habile habit of illation has made me devoid of desultory conclusion
4. Imbecility (N) – weakness of mind; stupidity; imbecile is an adult with abnormally low intelligence; “I am amazed at the imbecility of the readers of these trashy magazine”
5. Imbecility [N] – stupidity; weakness of mind; imbecile means with low intelligence
6. Imbibe – receive into the mind and receive; drink in
7. Imbroglio [N] – complicated situation; entanglement
8. Imminent [N] – approaching; near at hand; impending; looming
9. Immunity (N) - The state of not being susceptible
10. Immure (V) – imprison; shut up in confinement; intern; incarcerate; detain; “He immured himself in a small room to work unperturbed”.
11. Impale (V) – pierce; transfix; stab; “He was impaled by the spear hurled by his adversary”
12. Impeccable (A) – faultless; free from mistakes; lawless; unblemished; indigent; irreproachable; imperfect (opposite)
13. Impecunious [A] – without money; poor; impoverished; indigent; destitute; insolvent
14. Impel [V] – force somebody to do something; impose; insist; compel; coerce; oblige; induce
15. Impenitent (A) – not sorry for or ashamed of one’s misdoing; not penitent or repentant; un-contrite; remorseless; unabashed
16. Imperative (A) – absolutely necessary
17. Imperial (A) – like an emperor; connected with an empire
18. Imperil (V) – jeopardize
19. Imperious (A) – domineering; haughty; proud and arrogant; expecting obedience
20. Impervious (A) – incapable of being injured, influenced or affected – pervious means permeable, receptive; impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
21. Impinge (V) – have an effect on something; influence; infringe; touch; collide with; “How could they be married without impinging on one another’s freedom?”
22. Impolitic (A) – not politic; unwise; imprudent; injudicious; reckless; foolhardy; “I think it is impolitic to raise this issue now because the public is too angry”
23. Imponderable (A) – weightless; of which the effect or importance can’t be measured or estimated; “I can’t evaluate the data in this study, the imponderable items are not so easily analyzed”
24. Import (N) – important goods, services; significance
25. Importunate (A) - asking for things many times in a way that is annoying; troublesome; allow me to be importunate but I must get raise; urging; demanding; ask persistently in annoying manner; “He tried to hide from his importunate creditors until his allowance arrived”
26. Importune [V] – pester; to ask for things many times in a way that is annoying; beleaguer; badger
27. Imprecation (N) – baleful; curse; malediction; anathema; an offensive word that is used to express extreme anger
28. Improvise [V] – to make or do something using whatever is available, usually because you do not have what you really need; a vocalist improvises songs when involved in idyllic reciprocation and a leader deliver improvised claptrap to jostle with his rivals
29. Imprudent [A] – not wise or sensible
30. Impudent – bold and sassy, marked by disregard for others; rude; impertinent; brazen; insolent; presumptuous; cheeky
31. Impugn [V] – to express doubt about whether something is right, honest, etc.; challenge
32. Impuissance [N] – powerlessness; feebleness
33. Impute – to attribute something bad to someone
34. Inadvertently [Adverb] – unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly
35. Inane [A] – silly; senseless; with no meaning; an inane remark; absurd; frivolous; crass; idiotic; stupid
36. Incandescent [A] – strikingly bright; shining with intense heat; giving on light when heated; glowing; radiant; luminous; luminescent; florescent; beaming; flaring; full of strong emotion
37. Incantation [N] – singing or chanting of magic spells; magical formula; invocation; spell; summons
38. Incarcerate [V] – imprison; intern; detain
39. Incendiary [A] – inflammatory; designed to cause fire; causing strong feeling or violence; combustible; flammable; arsonist (N); provocative; rabble-rousing
40. Incense [N] – a substance that produces pleasant smell when you burn it, used in religious ceremonies; V – to make somebody very angry; the decision incensed the work force; incensed (A)
41. Incessant [A] – not stopping; constant
42. Incipient [A] – beginning; in an early stage; “I will go to sleep early for I want to break an incipient cold”; embryonic; budding; inchoate
43. Incisive [A] – showing clear thought and good understanding of what is important and the ability to express this; “an incisive comments; and incisive performance; keen; perceptive; dull (opposite)
44. Inclement [A] – not pleasant weather; cold and wet weather; clement (opposite); intemperate; squally
45. Incognito – without being known; in disguise; without cognition; with your identity concealed
46. Incontinent [A] – not showing control over urination; the control of feelings, especially desires to have sex; celibate; the noun form is incontinence that means involuntary urination or defecation; our little daughters are still incontinent so my consort has no time to rest
47. Incontrovertible [A] – indisputable; that is true and cannot be disagreed with or denied; indubitable; unassailable
48. Incriminate [V] – suggest that someone is criminal; implicate; impeach; convict; exonerate (opposite); criminate; reprimand; censure
49. Incubus [N] – a male demon having belied intercourse with sleeping woman; nightmare – a situation resembling a terrifying dream; someone who depresses or worries others; succubus is the female spirit having intercourse with sleeping male
50. Incur [V] -
51. Indictment (N) – a formal document written for the prosecuting attorney charging a person with offense; an accusation of wrong doing
52. Indignant (A) - feeling or showing anger and surprise because you think that you have been treated unfairly; umbrageous
53. Ineffable (A) - too great or beautiful to describe in words
54. Ineluctable (A) – unable to avoid or evade
55. Inerrancy (N) – exemption from error; infallibility
56. Inert – very slow to act, sluggish, dull, inactive
57. Infidels (N) – persons who do not acknowledge your god; gentiles; heathens; pagans
58. Inflammatory (A) – intended to cause very strong feeling or anger; inflammatory remarks; incendiary; instigative; rabble-rousing; seditious; provocative; passion
59. Ingratiation (N) – bootlicking; truckling; cringing; fawning; toadyism
60. Inimical (A) – unfriendly; hostile; not chummy; inimical countries; inimical actions; hostile; opposed; adverse; acting against
61. Innocuous (A) – not intended to harm; harmless
62. Insinuate – imply in a subtle way
63. Insolent (A) – extremely rude and showing a lack of respect; an insolent child
64. Insouciance (N) – nonchalance; the state of not being worried about something
65. Intrepid – fearless, courageous, audacious, dauntless,
66. Inveigle – to persuade by flattery, entice, cajole, wheedle
67. Inveterate (A) – deeply seated; firmly established; inveterate liar; obsessive; ineradicable; entrenched; incorrigible