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Imperspicuous

Not perspicuous; not clear; obscure; vague; ambiguous.

Impersuadable

Not to be persuaded; obstinate; unyielding; impersuasible.

Impersuasible

Not persuasible; not to be moved by persuasion; inflexible; impersuadable.

Impertinence

The condition or quality of being impertinent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.

Imperturbable

Incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted; as, imperturbable gravity.

Impervious

Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air.

Impest

To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague.

Impetigo

A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation.

Impetrable

Capable of being obtained or moved by petition.

Impetration

The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.

Impetrative

Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty.

Impetuosity

The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.

Impetuous

Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.

Impetus

A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

Imphee

The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane.

Impi

A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men.

Impiety

The quality of being impious; lack of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

Impignoration

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.

Imping

The act or process of grafting or mending.

Impinge

To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to clash with; -- with on or upon.

Impinguation

The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened.

Impious

Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.

impish

Having the qualities, or showing the characteristics, of an imp; naughtily or annoyingly playful; as, teasing and worrying with impish laughter.

Implacable

Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.

Implacental

Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes; nonplacental. A mammal having no placenta; a nonplacental mammal.

Implacentalia

A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

Implant

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.

Implate

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

Implausible

Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.

Impleadable

Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous.

Implemental

Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.

Impletion

The act of filling, or the state of being full.

Implex

Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.

Implexion

Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.

Impliable

Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.

Implicate

To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

implicated

culpably involved; connected; -- of persons with respect to responsibility for events.

implicating

a charge that implicates someone (usually of wrongdoing).

Implication

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

Implicit

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.

Implicitly

In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.

Implied

Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply.

implode

To burst inward; contrasting with explode.

Imploring

That implores; beseeching; entreating.

Implosion

A bursting inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

Implosive

Formed by implosion. An implosive sound, an implodent.

Implumed

Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless.

Impluvium

In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.

Imply

To infold or involve; to wrap up.

Impoison

To poison; to imbitter; to impair.

Impolicy

The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud.

Impolite

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.

Impolitic

Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.

Imponderability

The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.

Imponderable

An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.

Impone

To stake; to wager; to pledge.

Imporosity

The state or quality of being imporous; lack of porosity; compactness.

Imporous

Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid.

Import

Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.

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