Lack of preparation.

A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.

The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company.

The quality of being imprescriptible.

Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription; -- of rights.

In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.

A device. See Impresa.

The act of impressing or making.

having the conscious mind deeply or markedly affected or influenced; -- usually used with by or with.

The quality of being impressible; susceptibility.

Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

The quality of being impressionable.

Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible; as, a bad influence on impressionable youths.

The quality of being impressionable.

The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.

One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism in art; especially, a painter who paints in the impressionistic style; as, the skyrocketing prices of paintings by the French impressionists.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible.

Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.

The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.

One who, or that which, impresses.

Dent; impression.

A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.

A sum of money to be used as petty cash.

Lack of prevalence.

The state or quality of being impreventable; inevitability.

Not preventable; inevitable.

A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

A print; impression. A printing establishment. The art of printing.

A beginning.

In the first place; first in order.

Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet.

The learning of a behavioral pattern that occurs soon after birth or hatching in certain animals, in which a long-lasting response to an individual (such as a parent) or an object is rapidly acquired; it is particularly noted in the response of certain birds to the animal they first see after hatching, usually the parent, as in ducks who will follow the adult duck they first see.

To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint.

One who imprisons.

The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.

Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event.

To disapprove of; to disallow.

The act of disapproving; disapprobation.

Implying, or tending to, improbation.

Lack of probity; lack of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty.

Lack of proficiency.

Unprofitable.

Not progressive.

Not prolific.

To impregnate.

Not ready.

Something made or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark.

To appropriate; to limit.

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.

A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual.

In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

Impropriety.

Unpropitious; unfavorable.

Not proportionable.

Not proportionate.

Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.

The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated.

A female impropriator.

The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.

Lack of prosperity.

Not prosperous.

The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.

Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.

To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.

advanced to a more desirable or valuable or excellent state. Opposite of unimproved.

The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.

One who, or that which, improves.

Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared.

The quality of being improvident; lack of foresight or thrift.

Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.

Improvidently.

In a improvident manner.

Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better.

To improvise; to extemporize.

The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

Same as Improvisate.

An improviser, or improvvisatore.

See Improvvisatore.

Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition.

See Improvvisatrice.

To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand.

One who improvises.

Improvidence.

Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous.

One who composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously.

A female improvvisatore.

The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.

Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.

Not having arrived at puberty; immature.

The condition of not having reached puberty, or the age of ability to reproduce one's species; lack of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into.

The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; lack of modesty.

Impudence.

Behaving boldly, with contempt or disregard for propriety in behavior toward others; unblushingly forward; impertinent; saucy.

In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.

Immodesty.

To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose; as, to impugn a person's integrity.

Capable of being impugned; that may be gainsaid.

Act of impugning; opposition; attack.

One who impugns.

The act of impugning, or the state of being impugned.

Lack of power; inability.

Weak; impotent; feeble.

To impel; to incite.

to buy on impulse without proper reflection.

That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.

In an impulsive manner.

The quality of being impulsive.

One who, or that which, impels; an inciter.

Not punctate or dotted.

Not punctual.

Neglect of, or failure in, punctuality.

Unpunished.

Without punishment; with impunity.

Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.

Defilement; obscuration.

To defile; to pollute.

In an impure manner.