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.

The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.

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

The quality of being imputable; imputableness.

Quality of being imputable.

By imputation.

Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed.

One who imputes.

Not putrescible.

A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland.

To inclose; to take in; to harvest.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

migration into a place.

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

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

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

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

See Enable.

See Enablement.

Lack of abstinence; indulgence.

Not abstracted.

Without abuse.

The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.

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

Not accordant; discordant.

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

In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.

Lack of acquaintance.

Not acquiescent or acquiescing.

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

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

The act or process of inactivating.

In an inactive manner.

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

To put in action.

Operation.

Lack of adaptation; unsuitableness.

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

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

Lack of exact correspondence.

Not adhering.

Lack of adhesion.

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

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

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

Not advisable.

Lack of affability or sociability; reticence.

Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.

Freedom from affectation; naturalness.

Unaffected.

Incapable of being assisted; helpless.

The quality or state of being inalienable.

Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.

The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.

In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.

Affording no aliment or nourishment.

The quality of being unalterable or unchangeable; permanence.

Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable.

Unamiable.

Incapable of being lost.

A woman in love; a mistress.