imaginable
1: possible to conceive or imagine; "that is one possible answer" [syn: {conceivable}, {possible}]
imaginary
1: not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself" [s...
imaginary being
1: a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction [syn: {imaginary creature}]
imaginary creature
1: a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction [syn: {imaginary being}]
imaginary number
1: a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 [syn: {complex number}, {complex quantity}]
imaginary part
1: the part of a complex number that has the square root of -1 as a factor [syn: {imaginary part of a complex number}]
imaginary place
1: a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings [syn: {mythical place}]
imagination
1: 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 cou...
imagination image
1: a mental image produced by the imagination [syn: {thought-image}]
imaginative
1: (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 clergy...
imaginative comparison
1: the kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories
imaginatively
1: with imagination; "the room was decorated very imaginatively" [ant: {unimaginatively}]
imaginativeness
1: 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 cou...
imagine
1: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" [syn: {conceive of}, {ideate}, {envisage}] 2: expect, believe, or suppose; ...
imagined
1: not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself" [s...
imaging
1: the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" [syn: {imagination}, {imagery}, {mental imagery}] 2: (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interio...
imagism
1: 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
1: (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood 2: an adult insect produced after metamorphosis [also: {imagoes} (pl), {imagines} (pl)]
imam
1: (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide [syn: {imaum}]
Imamu Amiri Baraka
1: United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934) [syn: {Baraka}, {LeRoi Jones}]
imaret
1: a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey
imaum
1: (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide [syn: {imam}]
Imavate
1: a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression [syn: {imipramine}, {impramine hydrochloride}, {Tofranil}]
imbalance
1: a state of disequilibrium (as may occur in cases of inner ear disease) [syn: {instability}, {unbalance}] [ant: {balance}] 2: (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: {asymmetry}] [ant: {symmetry}]
imbalanced
1: being or thrown out of equilibrium [syn: {unbalanced}] [ant: {balanced}]
imbauba
1: tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems [syn: {trumpetwood}, {trumpet-wood}, {trumpet tree}, {snake wood}, {Cecropia peltata}]
imbecile
1: having a mental age of three to seven years [syn: {imbecilic}, {idiotic}] n : a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: {idiot}, {cretin}, {moron}, {changeling}, {half-wit}, {retard}]
imbecilic
1: having a mental age of three to seven years [syn: {imbecile}, {idiotic}]
imbecility
1: retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot 2: a stupid mistake [syn: {stupidity}, {betise}, {folly}, {foolishness}]
imbed
1: fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" [syn: {implant}, {engraft}, {embed}, {plant}] [also: {imbedding}, {imbedde...
imbibe
1: take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words" [syn: {absorb}, {suck}, {soak up}, {sop up}, {suck up}, {draw}, {take in}, {take up}] 2:...
imbiber
1: a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) [syn: {drinker}, {toper}, {juicer}] [ant: {abstainer}]
imbibing
1: the act of consuming liquids [syn: {drinking}, {imbibition}]
imbibition
1: (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel 2: the act of consuming liquids [syn: {drinking}, {imbibing}]
imbricate
1: used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles [syn: {imbricated}] v 1: place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles" 2: overlap; "The roof tiles imbricate"
imbricated
1: used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles [syn: {imbricate}]
imbrication
1: covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) [syn: {overlapping}, {lapping}]
imbroglio
1: an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation [syn: {embroilment}] 2: a very embarrassing misunderstanding
imbrue
1: permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood" [syn: {drench}]
imbue
1: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building" [syn: {permeate}, {pervade}, {penetrate}, {interpenetrate}, {diffuse...
IMF
1: a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies [syn: {International Monetary Fund}]
imidazole
1: an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor [syn: {iminazole}, {glyoxaline}]
imide
1: any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-
iminazole
1: an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor [syn: {imidazole}, {glyoxaline}]
imipramine
1: a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression [syn: {impramine hydrochloride}, {Imavate}, {Tofranil}]
imitate
1: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings" [syn: {copy}, {simulate}] 2: appear like, as in behavior or appearan...
imitation
1: not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of ...
imitative
1: marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being" [ant: {nonimitative}] 2: (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitat...
imitative electronic deception
1: the introduction of electromagnetic energy into enemy systems that imitates enemy emissions [syn: {electronic imitative deception}]
imitator
1: someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another [syn: {impersonator}] 2: someone who copies the words or behavior of another [syn: {copycat}, {emulator}, {ape}, {aper}]
immaculate
1: completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn: {speckless}, {spick-and-span}, {spic-an...
Immaculate Conception
1: Roman Catholic holy day first celebrated in 1854 [syn: {December 8}] 2: (Christianity) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin
immaculately
1: in an immaculate manner; "gone was the casually dressed Canadian she had thought a backwoodsman--this man was immaculately tailored"
immaculateness
1: the state of being spotlessly clean [syn: {spotlessness}]
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immanence
1: the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain [syn: {immanency}, {inherence}]
immanency
1: the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain [syn: {immanence}, {inherence}]
immanent
1: of a mental act performed entirely within the mind; "a cognition is an immanent act of mind" [syn: {subjective}] [ant: {transeunt}] 2: of qualities that are spread throughout something; "ambition i...
Immanuel Kant
1: influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804) [syn: {Kant}]
immaterial
1: of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact" [ant: {material}] 2: without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit" [syn: {inco...
immaterialise
1: render immaterial or incorporeal [syn: {immaterialize}, {unsubstantialize}, {unsubstantialise}]
immateriality
1: complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration [ant: {materiality}] 2: the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter [syn: {incorporeality}] [ant: {materiality}, {materiality...
immaterialize
1: render immaterial or incorporeal [syn: {immaterialise}, {unsubstantialize}, {unsubstantialise}]
immature
1: characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior" [ant: {mature}] 2: lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character" [syn: {unformed}] 3: (used of living things especially...
immaturely
1: in an immature manner; "his teenage son still behaves very immaturely" [syn: {jejunely}] [ant: {maturely}]
immatureness
1: not having reached maturity [syn: {immaturity}] [ant: {maturity}]
immaturity
1: not having reached maturity [syn: {immatureness}] [ant: {maturity}]
immeasurable
1: impossible to measure; "unmeasurable reaches of outer space" [syn: {unmeasurable}, {immensurable}] [ant: {measurable}] 2: beyond calculation or measure; "of incalculable value"; "an incomputable am...
immeasurably
1: to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement; "the war left him immeasurably fearful of what man can do to man" [ant: {measurably}] 2: without bounds; "he is infinitely wealthy" [syn: {boundlessly...
immediacy
1: lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage" [syn: {immediateness}] [ant: {mediacy}] 2: immediate intuitive awareness [syn: {immediate apprehension}] 3: the qu...
immediate
1: very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past" [syn: {contiguous}] 2: having no intervening medium; "an immediate...
immediate allergy
1: an allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact [syn: {atopy}, {atopic allergy}, {type I allergic reaction}]
immediate constituent
1: a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate
immediate memory
1: what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it [syn: {short-term memory}, {STM}]
immediate payment
1: prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check [syn: {cash}] [ant: {credit}]
immediately
1: 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
1: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" [syn: {immediacy}, {instantaneousness}, {instancy}] 2: lack of an intervening or med...
immemorial
1: long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; "time immemorial" [syn: {immemorial(ip)}]
immense
1: 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 An...
immensely
1: to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator" [syn: {vastly}]
immenseness
1: unusual largeness in size or extent [syn: {enormousness}, {grandness}, {greatness}, {immensity}, {sizeableness}, {vastness}]
immensity
1: unusual largeness in size or extent [syn: {enormousness}, {grandness}, {greatness}, {immenseness}, {sizeableness}, {vastness}]
immensurable
1: impossible to measure; "unmeasurable reaches of outer space" [syn: {immeasurable}, {unmeasurable}] [ant: {measurable}]
immerse
1: thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in hot water" [syn: {plunge}] 2: engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his studies" [syn: {steep}, {engulf}, {plunge}, {engross}, {absorb}, {soa...
immersion
1: sinking until covered completely with water [syn: {submergence}, {submerging}, {submersion}] 2: (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [syn: {ingress}] [ant: {egress}...
immersion foot
1: resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet [syn: {trench foot}]
immersion heater
1: a heating element that is immersed in the liquid that is to be heated (as in a hot-water tank)
immigrant
1: a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
immigrant class
1: recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds
immigrate
1: migrate to a new environment; "only few plants can immigrate to the island" 2: introduce or send as immigrants; "Britain immigrated many colonists to America" 3: come into a new country and change ...
immigration
1: migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) [syn: {in-migration}] 2: the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interva...
Immigration and Naturalization Service
1: an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States [syn: {INS}]
imminence
1: the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn: {imminency}, {imminentness}, {impendence}, {impendency}, {forthcomingness}]
imminency
1: the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn: {imminence}, {imminentness}, {impendence}, {impendency}, {forthcomingness}]
imminent
1: close in time; about to occur; "retribution is at hand"; "some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand"; "in imminent danger"; "his impending retirement" [syn: {at hand(p)}, {close at h...
imminent abortion
1: the appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception [syn: {threatened abortion}]
imminentness
1: the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn: {imminence}, {imminency}, {impendence}, {impendency}, {forthcomingness}]
immingle
1: combine into one; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much" [syn: {blend}, {intermix}, {intermingle}]
immiscible
1: (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing [syn: {unmixable}] [ant: {miscible}]
immix
1: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: {blend}, {flux}, {mix}, {conflate}, {commingle}, {fuse}, {coalesce}, {meld}, {combine}, {merge}]
immobile
1: not capable of movement or of being moved [ant: {mobile}] 2: securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car" [syn: {fast}, {firm}]
immobilisation
1: fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; "immobilization of the injured knee was necessary" [syn: {immobilization}] 2: the act of limiting movement or maki...
immobilise
1: hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital [syn: {immobilize}] 2: to hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" [syn: {trap}, {pin}, {immobilize}] ...
immobility
1: remaining in place [syn: {stationariness}, {fixedness}] 2: the quality of not moving [ant: {mobility}]
immobilization
1: fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; "immobilization of the injured knee was necessary" [syn: {immobilisation}] 2: the act of limiting movement or maki...
immobilize
1: hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital [syn: {immobilise}] 2: to hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" [syn: {trap}, {pin}, {immobilise}] ...
immobilizing
1: the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement; "the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team" [syn: {immobilization}, {immobilisation}]
immoderate
1: not within reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending" [ant: {moderate}]
immoderately
1: in an immoderate manner; "he eats immoderately" [syn: {without moderation}] [ant: {moderately}] 2: to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation; "his prices are unreasonably high" [s...
immoderateness
1: the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation [syn: {immoderation}] [ant: {moderation}]
immoderation
1: the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation [syn: {immoderateness}] [ant: {moderation}]
immodest
1: having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc; "brash immodest boasting" [ant: {modest}] 2: offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance [ant: {modest}]
immodestly
1: in an immodest manner; "the book was entitled, immodestly, `All about Wisdom'" [syn: {without modesty}] [ant: {modestly}]
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