English Wordbook/I
From The Anglish Moot
Staff I of the English Wordbook.
| -ic | sfx | -ish |
| icicle | n | icicle, icle |
| icthyology | n | fishlore |
| idea | n | wit, thought, ink, thoughty, brainwave, brainchild |
| identical | adj | selfsame(nb. att'd) |
| idiosyncrasy | n | quirk |
| idol | n | afgod, false god, devilgold |
| i.e. | abbrev. | th.i., "that is" |
| igloo | n | icehouse |
| ignite | vb | fang afire, kindle, light, spark, fire |
| ignorance | n | unskill, dullness, unknowingness, witlessness, unwitness |
| ignorant | adj | dumb, dull, unknowing, witless, loreless, unwittened, backward, benighted, untaught, bookless, nyten |
| ignore | vb | snub, overlook, unheed |
| ignus fatuus | n | will-o-the-wisp |
| ill-conceived | adj | misbegotten, ill-thought-up |
| ill-looking | adj | sallow, sickly, yellowish |
| illegal | adj | unlawful, unrightful, wrong |
| illegalise | vb | ban, outlaw, make unlawful |
| illegimate | adj | misbegotten, ill-gotten, unrightful |
| illuminate | vb | belighten |
| illumination | n | belightening |
| illusion | n | dream, bedevilment, |
| imitate | vb | ape |
| imitation | n | aping, fake, pinchbeck, ersatz |
| impale | vb | gride, skewer, spit, thrill through, forthrill, run through |
| image | n | picture, onlyness |
| imagination | n | mind('s) eye, mindsight, head |
| imaginative | adj | witty, clever, thoughtful |
| imagine | vb | see in (one's) mind('s) eye, mindsee, think of |
| immanent | adj | indwelling, inborn |
| immature | adj | childish, young, youthful, green, unripe, underripe, babyish, untimely |
| immediately | adv | swithsoon, right now/away, forthwith, ayenow, alnow |
| immigrant | n | incomer, inwanderer, comeling, drifter |
| immigrate | vb | inwander |
| immigration | n | inwandering |
| imminent | adj | at hand, bearing nigh, forthcoming, incoming, looming, near, nigh, oncoming, upcoming, threatening, withbearing |
| immoral | adj | sinful, wrongful, unrighteous |
| immortal | adj | undying, everlasting, deathless, undeadly, unkillable |
| immutable | adj | unbending, unbroken, steadfast, ungiving, unyielding, unwendlike, unchanging, neverwent |
| impact | n | strike, blow, hit, weight, burden, knock-on, aftermath, bearing upon, shock, meaning, |
| impair | vb | blight, harm, hurt, put back, hinder, undermine, eat away |
| impartial | adj | evenhanded, fair-minded, unswayed, dealing with all alike |
| impasse | n | deadlock, dead-end, stand-off, standstill, stop, halt |
| impassive | adj | cool, cold, unmoved, unfeelingly, deadpan, wooden |
| impede | vb | hinder, let, hold back, slow, stunt |
| impenetrable | adj | neverbroken, fast |
| imperialism | n | overlordship, banishness, worldoverlordship, worldrikedom |
| impertinent | adj | bold, shameless, unashamed, brash, brazen, forward, meddlesome, uncalled-for |
| implicit | adj | unsaid, unspoken, unuttered, wordless |
| implicit, be | vb | go without saying |
| implode | vb | inburst, fall in |
| implore | vb | beseech, bid, beg, pray |
| imply | vb | hint, infold |
| impolite | adj | menseless, cheeky, lewd, unseeming, unseemly |
| importance | n | standing, meaning, weightiness, pith, pithiness, heft, weight |
| important | adj | weighty, meaningful, pithy, high-standing, key |
| impose | vb | saddle, foist |
| impossible | adj | undoughtbefall, undowedbefall |
| imprint | n | mark, stamp, inthrick |
| imprison | vb | cage, jail, jug |
| impromptu | adj | offhand |
| improper | adj | unseemly, uncomely, untoward, unbecoming |
| improve | vb | make better, better, booten |
| improvised | adj | makeshift, jury-rigged |
| impudence | n | gall, boldness, shamelessness |
| impurity | n | filthiness, dirtiness, gall |
| inadvertence | n | oversight, unmindfulness, heedlessness, carelessness, wrecklessness |
| inane | adj | mindless |
| inanimate | adj | without life, still, lifeless |
| inappropriate | adj | unfitting, unbecoming, unbeseeming |
| inaudible | adj | unherad, neverheard, unhearable, unhearbear |
| incalculable | adj | untold |
| incarnation | n | like, manishness(human incarnation), befleshness, infleshness, fleshtaking, fleshhood, |
| incarnation | phr | being in the flesh |
| in case | conj | lest, for fear that, the less |
| inception | n | beginning, onset |
| incest | n | bloodshame (calque from continental Germanic langs.), siblair |
| incision | n | cut, slit |
| incisive | adj | cutting |
| incite | vb | goad, egg |
| inclination | n | leaning, bent, mindbent, |
| incline | n | slope, lean |
| inclined | adj | minded |
| include | vb & phr | inclose, put in, let -in, number among, put together, be made up out of |
| incompassionate | adj | ruthless, heartless, cold, hard-hearted, cold-hearted |
| incomplete | n | underdone, less than whole, unwhole, underwhole |
| inconsiderate | adj | thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking, careless, ruthless, reckless |
| incorporated | adj | onelikened |
| incorrect | adj | untrue, wrong, unyearight |
| increase | vb | raise, eke, build up, gather, heighten, deepen, wax, rise, grow, swell, take in (more) |
| increasing | adj | on the make |
| increasingly | adv | more and more, ever more |
| incredible | adj | unbelievable, wonderful, unseen, unheard-of, untrustworthy, unbelieffast |
| incursion | n | raid, inroad |
| incus | n | anvil |
| indebted | adj | beholden, guilted, owing |
| indecent | adj | shameless, unseemly, shameful, unsightful |
| indecisive | adj | wavering, in two minds, swithering, halting, half-hearted, half-minded, unmeting |
| indelicate | adj | heavy handed, stern, gruff |
| independent | adj | free, standalone, unoffhanging, unonhanging, selfstanding |
| independence | n | lonestance, selfhood, lonemood, unoffhangingness, selfstand, selfstanding, selfstandship |
| indicate | vb | show, betoken, bespeak, hint at, bode |
| indication | n | betokening, hint, clue |
| indigent | adj | needy |
| indiscriminately | adv | swoopstake, shilly-shally |
| indisposed | adj | unwell, sickened, not so well, mildly ill, slighty sick, illish, ailing, unfit, untrim |
| individual | n | one, yea-one, self |
| indocrinate | vb | becreed, belare, belore, inlare, inlore |
| indocrinated | adj | creed-bound, creed-trothen |
| indocrination | n | creed-teaching, becreeding |
| indolent | adj | lazy, idle, shiftless, slothful, aswolke, listless |
| induce | vb | bring on, lead to, draw, teach |
| industry | n | bulkbuildship, worksomeness |
| industrial action | n | strike |
| industrious | adj | hard working, worksome, tireless, deedy |
| inebriated | adj | drunk, besotted |
| ineffable | adj | unspeakable |
| ineffective | adj | empty (fig.), idle, lame, mightless, slack (ineffectual), slight (insignificant, trifling), toothless (fig.), weak, winless, worthless |
| inept | adj | clueless, unhandy, clumsy |
| inert | adj | still, unmoving, lifeless, idle |
| inexperienced | adj | unfledged, callow, raw, green |
| infamy | n | badname, badness, lowstanding, ill-name, loathsomeness, shamefulness, wickedness, wrongness, forcouthness |
| infancy | n | bairnhood, childhood, cradlehood, babytime |
| infant | n | newborn, child, baby, toddler, suckling |
| infanticide | n | childslaughter |
| infection | n | smittle |
| infect | vb | smittle |
| infectious | adj | smittle, catchy, smittlesome |
| inferior | n & adj | less, lesser, lower, lowly, mean, netherly, underling, worse, wretched |
| infernal | adj | fiendish, hellish, wicked, underhanded, evil, ill, hateful, all-fired |
| infertile | adj | geld, unteeming |
| infidelity | n | untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, swikedom, lie |
| infinite | adj | boundless, endless, everlasting, never-ending, timeless, unbounded, unmetely, unrim, untold, without end |
| infinity | n | boundlessness, unending, endlessness, forever, eke, timelessness, everlasting, everlastingness, unboundedness |
| infirmed | adj | sickly, unhealthy, wanhale |
| inflammation | n | burning, betindering (Scandinavian 'betændelse'), redness, soreness, swelling, itch |
| influence | vb | sway, shape |
| inflict | vb | wreak, lay on |
| influenza | n | haingles, grippe |
| influx | n | inflow |
| informal | adj | loose |
| informant | n | tout |
| information | n | word |
| infuriating | adj | maddening, angering |
| infuse | v | inset, input, inlay |
| ingenuity | n | braininess, brightness, mindquickness, giftedness, wondrous of mind, mastermindiness; cleverness, cunningness, canniness, nimble-mindedness, nimbled-wittedness, orthank |
| ingest | vb | eat, take in |
| ingestion | n | intake, uptake |
| Inglish/ English | n/adj | the national language of England/ Inglelond |
| inhabit | vb | bewone, dwell, erde, alive, abide, wone in |
| inhabitance | n | abode, dwelling, erding,(erding in sorrow), erdingstow, |
| inhabitant | n | bewoner, dweller, indweller (Scots), erd-folk |
| inhale | vb | breathe in, draw breath, |
| inherent | adj | built-in, inborn, inbred, indwelling |
| inherit | vb | to come from, bequeath, hand down, erve/earve, bee(a)rve |
| inheritance | n | earf, earfdeal, erve, ervedeal, birthright, birthdom, birth-hood |
| inimical | adj | foesome, harmful, unfriendly, |
| initial | adj | first, beginning, early |
| initiate | vb | start, begin, bring on, bring up, fang on, goad, spur |
| injection | n | needleprick, inshot, inshooting, insquirting, shot, shot-giving, shooting-up, upshooting |
| injure | vb | hurt, scathe, wound, mar, mess up (colloq.) screw up (colloq.) |
| innate | adj | inborn, indwelling |
| innocent | adj | guiltless, baneless, clean (fig.) |
| innocuous | adj | baneless, unhurtful |
| innovative | adj | forward-looking, groundbreaking, leading-edge, newfangled, trendy, trendsetting |
| innovator | n | groundbreaker, trendsetter |
| inquire | vb | ask, underseek/ seek under |
| insane | adj | mad, out of one's mind |
| inscribe | vb | write |
| insect | n | bug, golach |
| insensitive | adj | unfeeling |
| inseparable | adj | bound, bound up, hand-in-hand, forever one, thick, unasunderlike |
| insert | vb | inset |
| insincere | adj | hollow, hollow-hearted |
| inspiration | n | inbreath, brainchild, brainwave |
| inspire | vb | besoul (calque of dutch 'bezielen') |
| instance | n | lodestar, loadstar, earnestness |
| instantly | adv | in no time, taking no time |
| instigate | v | fire up, goad, kindle, rouse, stir up, spur |
| institute | vb | set up, |
| institution | n | body |
| instruct | vb | teach, belare, lare, learn, loren, wise, underwise |
| insult | n | slight, slur, lambast |
| insurance | n | foresafety |
| insurgent | n | upriser, rabble-rouser |
| integer | n | whole number |
| intellectual | n | high-mind, thinkster, wit, thinker |
| intellectual | adj | mindwise, high-minded, highbrow, witty, thoughtful |
| intelligent | adj | smart, clever, wise, learned, keen-witted, sharp witted, ready-witted, brainy, bright, quick |
| intelligible | adj | witsome |
| intend | vb | mean, will, wish |
| intense | adj | burning, hardspun, strong-willed, strong-feeling, |
| intention | n | will, wish |
| inter | vb | bury, begrave, bedelve |
| intern | n | inworker |
| intercept | vb | waylay, cut off |
| interdict | vb | forbid |
| interfere | vb | pry, hinder |
| interest | n | right, share, stake, deal, doing, end, gain, gleanings, goodwill; (on money) yield, loanyield, geldyield |
| interesting | n | heedworthy |
| interim/interval | n | midtime, (long) far-between, midwhile |
| interior | n | inside, inner |
| intermediary | n | go-between |
| internal | adj | inland, inner, inner-bodily |
| international | n | lands amongst |
| International English | n/adj | see AngloUS, Anglonic |
| internet | n | innernet, (the world wide) web, twixtnet |
| interogate | vb | ask (about) debrief (from German Brief) |
| interpol | n | worldwatcher |
| interpret | vb | outlay, awend, aread, read into |
| interuption | n | underbreaking |
| intervention | n | tweencoming |
| interview | n | askencespeak |
| intestine | n | innard, tharm, gut |
| intimidate | vb | scare, frighten, overawe |
| intoxicated | adj | drunken |
| intoxicating | adj | heady |
| introduction | n | lead-in(att'd) |
| introduce | vb | make known, lead in |
| inundate | vb | flood, whelm, overwhelm, overythe |
| invade | vb | overrun, inwade, harrying, herefare, go (a) harrying, beset, storm in, swarm over, stream in(to), thring(e) int(to), throng in(to), thrust upon |
| invasion | n | besetting, herefare, overruning, inslaught, inthringing, instreaming, inthrong, inthronging, |
| invaluable | adj | yealief, yeadear, uncheap, forworthy |
| invasion | n | raid, inroads |
| invent | vb | frame, work, think up, make up, first make |
| invention | n | first-making |
| inventor | n | first-maker |
| inventory | n | goodslist |
| invertebrate | vb | unbackboned |
| invest | vb | wend(change money or office), buy a share in, buy a stake in, umclap |
| investigate | v | unwhelm, underseek/ seek under, look into |
| investigation | n | underseeking, |
| investor | n | shareholder, stakeholder |
| inveterate | adj | abiding, deep-rooted, deep-seated, hardened, lifelong, long-lived, settled |
| invisible | adj | unwisely, unseen, unseeable, unsightbear |
| invite | n & vb | welcome, inlath(e), lath(e), lath(e) in |
| involve | vb | intangle, inbind, inwalk, wrap up in |
| ion | n | streamote |
| ionosphere | n | streamlayer |
| iota | n | shred, whit, aught |
| ipseity | n | ass, selfhood |
| irascible | adj | prickly, feisty, edgy, churlish, bearish, outburstish, highly-strung, anger-easy, wrathy, wrongheaded, crankisome |
| ire | n | anger, wrath |
| irigate | n | beflow, bewater, water |
| iris | n | eyebow |
| irrelevant | n | without bearing, bearingless |
| irrelevant, be | vb | have no bearing |
| irresponsible | adj | reckless, heedless, careless, thoughtless, unmindful, unthinking |
| irritate | vb | irk, gall, make sore |
| irritating | adj | irksome, swinksome, tiresome, angering, |
| ischium | n | sea-bone |
| island | n | aitland, iland, ait, eyot, ealand, holm |
| isobar | n | evenheavy |
| isolation | n | loneliness, alonehood, asideness |
| islet | n | ait, eyot, ilanding |
| -ism | sfx | -ishness, -dom, -ish belief, -troth |
| Italian | adj | Italish |
| ivory | n | tusk, elephantbone |
