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Impropriate

Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.

Impropriation

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

Impropriator

One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.

Impropriety

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

Improvability

The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.

Improvable

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

Improve

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

improved

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

Improvement

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.

Improver

One who, or that which, improves.

Improvided

Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared.

Improvidence

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

Improvident

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

Improving

Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better.

Improvisation

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

Improvise

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

Improviso

Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous.

Improvvisatore

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

Imprudence

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.

Imprudent

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

Impuberal

Not having arrived at puberty; immature.

Impuberty

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.

Impudence

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

Impudent

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

Impudently

In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.

Impugn

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.

Impugnable

Capable of being impugned; that may be gainsaid.

Impugnment

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

impulse-buy

to buy on impulse without proper reflection.

Impulsive

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

Impulsor

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

Impunity

Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.

Impureness

The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.

Impurple

To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood.

Imputative

Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed.

Imrigh

A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland.

In

To inclose; to take in; to harvest.

In and in

Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.

in group in-group

an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose, interests, or attitudes, especially one that produces feelings of camaraderie, exclusivity, community, and solidarity.

In situ

In its natural or original position or place; in position; -- said specif., in geology, of a rock, soil, or fossil, when in the situation in which it was originally formed or deposited.

In-

A prefix from Eng. prep. in, also from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force.

In-and-in

An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.

in-basket

a wood or metal receptacle placed on a desk to hold incoming material requiring attention, especially documents.

in-between

being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series or time sequence; as, adolescence is an awkward in-between age.

in-bounds

within the demarcated playing area. Opposite of out of bounds.

in-box

a wood or metal receptacle placed on a desk to hold incoming material requiring attention, especially documents.

in-chief

a suffix signifying the head of a staff; as, editor-in-chief.

In-going

Going; entering, as upon an office or a possession; as, an in-going tenant.

in-law

A person who is related by marriage, as distinguished from a blood relative; esp. mother-in-law (the mother of one's spouse), father-in-law (the father of one's spouse), brother-in-law (the brother of one's spouse, or husband of one's spouse's sister), sister-in-law (the sister of one's spouse, or wife of one's spouse's brother).

in-person

undertaken by an individual in person; as, an in-person appearance.

in-situ

being in the original position; not having been moved or transferred to another location; as, an in-situ investigator.

in-tray

a wood or metal receptacle placed on a desk to hold incoming material requiring attention, especially documents.

Inability

The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; lack of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.

Inaccessibility

The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.

Inaccessible

Not accessible; not to be reached, obtained, or approached; as, an inaccessible rock, fortress, document, prince, etc.

Inaccurate

Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; not quite correct; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc.

Inaccurately

In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.

Inaction

Lack of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

inactivate

to make inactive; as, boiling will inactivate most enzymes; acetylation of the antibiotic inactivated it.

Inactose

A variety of sugar, found in certain plants. It is optically inactive.

Inadequacy

The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

Inadequate

Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.

Inadmissibility

The state or quality of being inadmissible, or not to be received.

Inadmissible

Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed, or received; as, inadmissible testimony; an inadmissible proposition, or explanation.

Inadvertent

Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.

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