English words: I

831 words under I; 401–500 on this page.

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• inferiority noun
  The inferiority of something is the state of being lower in rank, quality or skill than others, or feeling less good than them.
• infest verb (infests, infested, infesting)
  To infest a place is to fill it with many pests or harmful creatures, so that they are a problem.
• infestation noun (an infestation, infestations)
  A large number of insects, animals or pests living in a place where they are not wanted and causing harm.
• infinite adjective (infinite); noun (the infinite — formal)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Infinite means without any end or limit; so big it can never be measured or counted.
• infinitely adverb
  Infinitely means without any limit or end, or by a very great amount.
• infinitive noun (an infinitive, infinitives); adjective (infinitive)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The basic form of a verb, often with to in front: to run, to be, to eat; the bare infinitive has no to: run, be, eat.
• infinitude nounJewish tradition
  The state of having no end or limit, or something endless.
• infinity noun (infinity, infinities)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Infinity is the idea of something that has no end and goes on for ever, bigger than any number.
• infirm adjective
  Infirm means weak in body, often because of old age or illness.
• infirmity noun (an infirmity, infirmities; infirmity — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An infirmity is a physical or mental weakness or illness, especially one that comes with old age.
• inflame verb (inflame, inflames, inflamed, inflaming)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To inflame feelings means to make people angrier or more excited.
• inflamed adjective (inflamed, more inflamed); verb, past form of…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Red, swollen, hot and sore, usually because of an injury or infection.
• inflammation noun (inflammation; inflammations)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Inflammation is when part of the body becomes red, swollen, hot and painful, usually because it is hurt or fighting an infection.
• inflatable adjective (inflatable); noun (an inflatable, inflatables)
  Able to be filled with air or gas to make it bigger: «an inflatable boat».
• inflated verb, past form of inflate…
  Filled with air or gas, so that it gets bigger: an inflated balloon.
• inflation noun (inflation — uncountable)
  A rise in prices over time, so the same money buys less.
• inflected adjective (inflected); verb, past form of «inflect»…
  Changed in form to show grammar, such as tense, number or person: «walked» is an inflected form of «walk».
• inflection noun (an inflection, inflections; UK also inflexion)
  A change in the form of a word, usually its ending, to show tense, number, person and so on: «-s», «-ed», «-ing», «-er», «-est».
• inflectional adjective (inflectional)
  To do with inflection: changing the form of words to show grammar.
• inflexible adjective
  Inexible things cannot bend: an inflexible rod is stiff.
• inflict verb (inflict, inflicts, inflicted, inflicting)
  To inflict something bad, like pain, harm, damage or punishment, is to make someone or something suffer it.
• infliction noun (infliction, an infliction)
  The act of causing pain, harm or a punishment to someone.
• inflow noun (an inflow, inflows; also uncountable)
  The movement of water, air or other things flowing into a place: the inflow of a river into a lake.
• inflowing adjective (inflowing); also the -ing form of the rare verb…
  Flowing in; coming into a place: inflowing water, inflowing air.
• influence noun (influence, influences; an influence); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Influence is the power to change how someone thinks or acts, or how something happens.
• influencer noun (an influencer, influencers)
  An influencer is a person who is paid by companies or popular on social media to make people want to buy or do things.
• influential adjective (influential, more influential, most influential)
  Having a lot of influence: able to change what other people think or do, or how things happen.
• influenza noun (influenza, uncountable); short form flu
  An illness caused by a virus, with a high temperature, aches, a sore throat, a cough and great tiredness; it spreads easily.
• influx nounJewish tradition
  A flowing in, especially of a great amount.
• info noun…
  Information: facts or details about something.
• inform verb (inform, informs, informed, informing)
  To tell someone facts or news, especially officially.
• informal adjective
  Informal means relaxed and friendly, not following strict rules: «an informal party».
• informally adverb (informally)
  In a relaxed, friendly, everyday way, not following strict rules or formal manners.
• informant noun (an informant, informants)
  A person who gives information to someone else, for example to a researcher or reporter.
• information noun (information — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Information is facts or details about something.
• informative adjective (informative)
  Informative means giving useful facts and knowledge.
• informed verb…
  Told someone facts or news, often in a formal way.
• informing verb form…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Informing is the -ing form of «inform», which means to tell someone facts or news, especially officially.
• infrared adjective (infrared); noun (infrared, uncountable)
  Infrared is a kind of light that our eyes cannot see, just beyond red light; we feel it as heat.
• infrequent adjective (infrequent, more infrequent); adverb…
  Not happening often; rare.
• infringement noun (plural infringements)Jewish tradition
  An infringement is breaking a rule, law or promise.
• infuriated adjective
  Infuriated means made very angry, so angry that you cannot keep calm.
• infusion noun (an infusion, infusions; also uncountable)
  A drink made by soaking leaves, flowers or fruit in hot water, like herbal tea.
• ingathering nounJewish tradition
  The ingathering is the gathering in of the crops at harvest time.
• ingenious adjective (ingenious, more ingenious, most ingenious)…
  Very clever and inventive, especially at finding new ways to solve problems.
• ingeniously adverb (from ingenious)Jewish tradition
  In a clever way, using a smart idea that few others would think of.
• ingenuity noun (ingenuity, uncountable); adjective ingenious
  Ingenuity is being clever and inventive, so you find new and smart ways to solve problems.
• ingest verb (ingest, ingests, ingested, ingesting); noun…
  To ingest is to take food, drink, medicine or another substance into your body by swallowing it.
• ingestion noun (ingestion, uncountable)
  Taking food, drink or another substance into the body through the mouth.
• ingratitude noun (no plural)
  Not being thankful for what someone has done for you.
• ingredient noun (an ingredient, ingredients)
  An ingredient is one of the foods or things that are mixed together to make a dish, like flour and eggs in a cake.
• ingress noun (ingress — uncountable; an ingress) — formal
  The act of going in, or the right to go in: a way in.
• ingrown adjective (ingrown; also ingrowing, UK)
  Grown into the skin instead of out of it, which can hurt and become infected.
• inhabit verb (inhabit, inhabits, inhabited, inhabiting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To inhabit a place means to live in it: «polar bears inhabit the Arctic».
• inhabitant noun (an inhabitant, inhabitants)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An inhabitant is a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or country.
• inhabited adjective (inhabited); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Having people or animals living in it.
• inhalation noun (inhalation, an inhalation)
  Breathing air, smoke or medicine into your lungs.
• inhale verb (inhale, inhales, inhaled, inhaling)
  To breathe air or another gas into your lungs.
• inhaler noun (an inhaler, inhalers)
  A small device you put in your mouth and press to breathe a medicine into your lungs, used mostly for asthma.
• inherent adjective (inherent; inherently adv.)
  Being a natural, basic part of something, so it cannot be taken away: an inherent danger, an inherent quality.
• inherently adverb (inherently)
  As a basic, natural part of something that cannot be removed; by its very nature.
• inherit verb (inherit, inherits, inherited, inheriting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To inherit money, a house or things is to receive them from someone after they die.
• inheritance noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  An inheritance is money, property or things you receive from someone who has died.
• inherited verb form…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Inherited means passed down from parents to children through the body, like eye colour or freckles.
• inheriting verb form (inherit, inherits, inherited, inheriting)
  Inheriting money, a house or things means receiving them from someone after that person has died.
• inheritor nounJewish tradition
  A person who receives property or a gift from someone before them.
• inhibit verb (inhibit, inhibits, inhibited, inhibiting)
  To slow down, block or stop something from happening or growing: salt inhibits bacteria.
• inhospitable adjective (inhospitable, more inhospitable)
  Not friendly or welcoming to visitors; a place with no food, shelter or kindness for strangers.
• inhuman adjective (inhuman, more inhuman)
  Very cruel or unkind, in a way that a kind person would never be.
• iniquitous adjectiveJewish tradition
  Very unjust or wicked.
• iniquitously adverbJewish tradition
  In a wicked or unjust way.
• iniquity nounJewish tradition
  Great wrong or sin.
• initial adjective (initial); noun (an initial, initials); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Happening at the beginning; first.
• initially adverb (initially)
  Initially means at the beginning, at first, before anything changed.
• initiate verb (initiate, initiates, initiated, initiating); noun…
  To initiate something is to start it or make it begin: initiate a conversation.
• initiation noun (initiation, initiations); from the verb initiate
  The act of starting something, such as a plan or a process.
• inject verb (inject, injects, injected, injecting)
  To put a medicine or liquid into the body with a needle (a syringe).
• injection noun (an injection, injections)
  An injection is when a doctor or nurse uses a needle to put medicine into your body through the skin.
• injector noun (an injector, injectors)
  A device that pushes a liquid or gas into something, for example fuel into a car engine.
• injunction noun (an injunction, injunctions)
  An injunction is an order from a court telling someone that they must or must not do something.
• injure verb (injure, injures, injured, injuring)
  To injure means to hurt a person or an animal so that part of the body is damaged, for example in an accident or a fall.
• injurious adjective (injurious)
  Causing harm or damage, as in «injurious to health».
• injury noun (an injury, injuries); verb injure; adjective injured
  An injury is harm done to a person's or animal's body, such as a cut, a bruise, a broken bone or a burn.
• injustice noun (injustice, injustices)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Injustice is unfairness: a situation where people are not treated equally or are not given what they deserve.
• ink noun (ink, inks); verb (ink, inks, inked, inking)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Ink is the coloured liquid used for writing, drawing and printing, found in pens and printers.
• inkstand noun (an inkstand, inkstands)
  A stand or tray on a desk that holds pots of ink, pens and sometimes sand or a pen-wiper, used in the days of dip pens.
• inky adjective (inky, inkier, inkiest)
  Inky means stained or covered with ink.
• inlaid adjective (inlaid); past form of the verb inlay…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Decorated by setting pieces of another material into the surface, so that they show, such as gold or pearl set into wood or ivory.
• inland adjective (inland); adverb (inland)
  In or towards the middle of a country, away from the coast or the sea: an inland town, travel inland.
• inlet noun (an inlet, inlets)
  An inlet is a narrow area of sea or lake water that goes into the land, like a small bay.
• inmate noun (an inmate, inmates)
  A person who is kept in a prison.
• inmost adjective (inmost, no comparative)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The deepest or most private; at the very centre of a place or of your feelings.
• inn noun (an inn, inns)
  An inn is a small hotel or pub, often in the countryside or an old building, where travellers can eat, drink and stay the night.
• innards nounJewish tradition
  The inside parts of the body, such as the stomach and bowels.
• innate adjective (innate)
  Innate means something you are born with, not something you learned, like an innate talent or instinct.
• inner adjectiveeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Inner means inside, or nearer the middle of something.
• innermost adjective (innermost, no comparative)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The same as inmost: the deepest, or nearest to the centre of a place or of your feelings.
• innings noun (an innings, innings; inning, innings in baseball)
  In cricket, an innings is a team's turn to bat, or one player's turn at batting.
• innkeeper noun (an innkeeper, innkeepers)
  A person who owns or runs an inn, a small hotel or pub where travellers can eat, drink and sleep.
• innocence noun (innocence, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Innocence is the state of not being guilty of a crime or wrongdoing.

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