English words: I

831 words under I; 601–700 on this page.

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• intelligible adjective (intelligible; intelligibly adv.)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Clear enough to be understood: an intelligible answer, intelligible speech.
• intend verb (intend, intends, intended, intending)
  To plan or mean to do something.
• intended verb, past form of intend…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Intended means planned or meant: «I intended to call you».
• intense adjective (intense, more intense, most intense)
  Very strong or extreme, as in intense heat, intense pain or intense colour.
• intensely adverb (intensely)
  Intensely means very strongly, deeply or extremely.
• intensified verb form of intensify…
  Intensified means became stronger, bigger or more extreme: «The storm intensified overnight».
• intensify verb (intensify, intensifies, intensified, intensifying)
  To intensify means to become stronger, greater or more extreme.
• intensifying verb, -ing form of «intensify»…
  Becoming stronger, greater or more extreme: an intensifying storm.
• intensity noun (intensity, intensities)
  How strong or extreme something is.
• intensive adjective (intensive); adverb intensively
  Intensive means using a lot of effort or work in a short time: «an intensive course».
• intent noun (intent, uncountable); adjective (intent on)everyday · Jewish tradition
  What someone means or plans to do; purpose, as in «with intent to steal».
• intention noun (an intention, intentions)
  What you plan or mean to do: your aim or purpose.
• intentional adjective (intentional)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Intentional means done on purpose, deliberately, not by accident.
• intentionally adverb (intentionally)
  On purpose; meaning to do it, not by accident.
• intently adverb (intently; from the adjective intent)everyday · Jewish tradition
  With close attention, with the mind fixed on one thing.
• inter verb (inter, inters, interred, interring; formal); prefix…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To bury a dead person in a grave or tomb.
• interact verb (interact, interacts, interacted, interacting); noun…
  To interact means to talk, play or work with other people and respond to them.
• interaction noun (an interaction, interactions)
  When two or more people or things act on each other, talk or work together.
• interbred verb, past form of «interbreed»…
  Bred together: when two different kinds of animals or plants mate and have young.
• interbreed verb (interbreed, interbreeds, interbred, interbreeding)
  To interbreed means for animals or plants of different kinds, breeds or groups to mate and have young together.
• intercede verb (intercedes, interceded, interceding)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To speak up for someone, asking a person in power to forgive them or to help them.
• intercept verb (intercept, intercepts, intercepted, intercepting)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To stop someone or something on the way and catch or block it before it gets where it was going: intercept a pass.
• interception noun (interception, interceptions); from the verb intercept
  The act of stopping or catching something on its way from one place to another.
• intercession noun (plural intercessions)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The act of speaking up for someone to save them from harm or punishment.
• intercessor nounJewish tradition
  A person who pleads with another for someone else's sake.
• interchangeable adjective (interchangeable)
  Able to be swapped or exchanged for each other without making any difference.
• interchangeably adverb (interchangeably)
  In a way where two or more things can be swapped for each other without changing the result or meaning.
• intercourse noun (old use)
  Friendly dealings and contact between people, families or peoples, meeting and talking together.
• interdependency nounJewish tradition
  A condition in which things depend on one another.
• interdict nounJewish tradition
  An official order that forbids something.
• interest noun (interest, interests); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Interest is the feeling of wanting to know more about something.
• interfaith adjective (interfaith)
  Interfaith means between or among people of different religions, like Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists.
• interfere verb (interfere, interferes, interfered, interfering)
  To interfere is to get involved in other people's business when you are not wanted.
• interference noun (interference — uncountable)
  Getting involved in someone else's business when you are not wanted: interference in their affairs.
• interim adjective (interim); noun (in the interim)
  Interim means for the time being, until something permanent is arranged; temporary.
• interior noun (the interior, interiors); adjective (interior)
  The interior is the inside of something, like a building, car or box.
• interjection noun (an interjection, interjections)
  A word or short phrase that shows a sudden feeling, such as «Wow!», «Ouch!», «Oops!» or «Hey!».
• interleave verb (interleave, interleaves, interleaved, interleaving)
  To interleave things is to put them between each other in turn, like mixing two piles of cards one by one.
• interlock verb (interlock, interlocks, interlocked, interlocking)…
  To fit or lock firmly together, with parts of one thing going into gaps in another.
• interlocutor noun (an interlocutor, interlocutors)
  A person you are talking with in a conversation.
• intermediary noun (an intermediary, intermediaries); adjective (formal)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An intermediary is a person or group who goes between two sides to help them talk, agree or make a deal.
• intermediate adjective; noun (an intermediate, intermediates)
  In the middle; between two levels, stages or places.
• interment noun (interment, interments); uncountable for the act…
  Interment is the burying of a dead person's body in a grave or tomb.
• interminable adjective
  Going on for so long that it seems it will never end; endless and tiresome.
• intermingle verb…
  To intermingle is to mix together, so that the different parts are spread among each other.
• intermission nounJewish tradition
  A pause or break in something that is going on.
• intermittent adjective (intermittent)
  Stopping and starting again and again; not continuous.
• intern noun (an intern, interns); verb…
  An intern is a student or young person who works somewhere for a short time to learn the job, sometimes without pay.
• internal adjective (internal)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Inside something, especially inside the body, a building or a country.
• internally adverb (internally)
  Internally means inside something, such as inside the body, a building or a machine.
• international adjective (international); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  International means between or involving two or more countries.
• internationally adverb (internationally)
  Internationally means between or among different countries.
• internet noun (the internet — uncountable; also the Internet)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The internet is the huge worldwide network that links millions of computers, phones and other devices so they can share information, send…
• internment noun (internment — usually uncountable)
  Keeping people locked up or held in a place, often during a war, without a normal trial.
• interplanetary adjective (interplanetary)
  Between planets, or travelling from one planet to another.
• interpolate verb (interpolates, interpolated, interpolating) (formal)Jewish tradition
  To put extra words, lines or a new piece into a story or text, often between parts that were already there.
• interpolation noun (plural interpolations) (formal)Jewish tradition
  Something extra added into a text or story that was not there at first.
• interpose verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To interpose something is to place it between two things or people.
• interposition noun (interposition, interpositions — formal)
  Putting something between two other things, or coming between them.
• interpret verb (interpret, interprets, interpreted, interpreting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To interpret something is to explain or decide what it means: interpret a poem, interpret a graph.
• interpretation noun (an interpretation, interpretations)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An explanation of what something means.
• interpreter noun (an interpreter, interpreters)everyday · Jewish tradition
  An interpreter is a person whose job is to change what someone says from one language into another, out loud, as they speak.
• interred verb form…
  Interred means buried; a person who is interred has been placed in a grave or tomb after death.
• interrogation noun (an interrogation, interrogations; also uncountable)
  An interrogation is long, close questioning of someone, especially by police or soldiers, to get information.
• interrogative adjective (interrogative); noun…
  Interrogative means used to ask a question: an interrogative sentence ends with a question mark.
• interrupt verb (interrupt, interrupts, interrupted, interrupting)
  To stop someone while they are speaking or doing something by saying or doing something yourself.
• interruption noun…
  An interruption is when someone or something stops a person talking or an activity for a short time.
• intersection noun (an intersection, intersections)
  A place where two or more roads meet or cross; a crossroads or junction.
• intersperse verb (intersperses, interspersed, interspersing)
  To scatter or place things here and there among other things.
• interstice noun (an interstice, interstices — formal)
  A very small gap or space between things that are close together.
• intertidal adjective (intertidal)
  Intertidal describes the strip of seashore that is under water at high tide and out in the air at low tide.
• intertwine verb (intertwines, intertwined, intertwining)
  To twist or wind together so that the parts become mixed up and linked.
• interval noun (an interval, intervals)
  An interval is a period of time between two events.
• intervene verb (intervene, intervenes, intervened, intervening)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To get involved in a situation to stop it or change it, especially to help.
• intervening adjective (intervening); also a form of the verb intervene…
  Coming or lying between two things, places or times (the intervening weeks, the intervening hills).
• intervention noun…
  An intervention is when someone steps in to change what is happening, especially to stop a problem or help.
• intervertebral adjective (intervertebral)
  Between the bones of the spine (vertebrae).
• interview noun (an interview, interviews); verb…
  An interview is a meeting where someone asks a person questions, for a job, a school place or a news story.
• interviewee noun (an interviewee, interviewees)
  The person who is asked questions in an interview, for example for a job, a school place, a newspaper or a TV programme.
• interviewer noun (an interviewer, interviewers)
  The person who asks the questions in an interview, for example on TV, radio, in a newspaper or for a job.
• intestine noun (an intestine, intestines; the intestines)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The intestines are the long tubes in your belly that food passes through after the stomach.
• intimate adjective (more intimate, most intimate)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Very close and friendly, sharing secrets.
• intimately adverb (intimately)everyday · Jewish tradition
  In a very close, detailed way; very well, from long experience.
• intimidate verb (intimidate, intimidates, intimidated, intimidating)…
  To frighten or threaten someone, especially to make them do what you want.
• intimidation noun (intimidation, uncountable)
  Intimidation is frightening someone, often with threats, so that they do what you want or are too scared to act.
• into prepositioneveryday · Jewish tradition
  Into means to the inside of something: jump into the pool.
• intolerable adjective (intolerable); adverb intolerably
  Intolerable means too bad, painful or annoying to put up with.
• intolerance noun (intolerance; an intolerance, intolerances)
  Not being willing to accept people whose ideas, beliefs, habits or ways of life are different from yours.
• intolerant adjective (intolerant); noun intolerance
  Intolerant means not willing to accept people whose ideas, beliefs or ways are different from yours.
• intonation noun (intonation, intonations)
  The rise and fall of your voice when you speak, which can change the meaning: a question often goes up at the end.
• intone verb (intone, intones, intoned, intoning)
  To say something slowly in a steady, flat voice, almost like singing on one note.
• intoxicated adjective (intoxicated); verb, past form of intoxicate…
  Drunk, or affected by drugs, so that you cannot think or act normally.
• intoxicating adjective
  So exciting or delightful that it makes you feel dizzy with joy.
• intoxication noun (intoxication); uncountable
  Intoxication is being drunk, or affected by alcohol or drugs so that you cannot think or move properly.
• intransitive adjectiveJewish tradition
  An intransitive verb is one that does not take an object, such as "lie down" or "sleep".
• intravenous adjective (intravenous); short form IV
  Intravenous means going into a vein, the tube that carries blood back to the heart.
• intravenously adverb (intravenously)
  Intravenously means by putting something straight into a vein, usually with a needle or drip.
• intrepidity noun (formal, rare)
  Fearless bravery; the quality of not being afraid of danger.
• intrinsic adjective (intrinsic) — formal
  Belonging to the real nature of something itself, not coming from outside: intrinsic value.
• intrinsically adverb (intrinsically)
  Intrinsically means by its own nature, in itself, not because of anything added from outside.

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