Importunate, a. Urgent, pertinacious, pressing, teasing, busy, earnestly solicitous.
Importune, v. a. Press (by entreaty), urge (by repeated requests), beset, entreat, dun, solicit earnestly.
Importunity, n. Entreaty, urgency, insistence, pressing solicitation, persistent entreaty.
Impose, v. a.
- 1. Put, lay, set, place.
- 2. Prescribe, enjoin, appoint.
- 3. Obtrude, palm, pass off.
Impose on. Impose upon. Deceive, cheat, chouse, trick, be-fool, hoax, dupe, delude, circumvent, victimize, play upon, put upon.
Imposing, a. Grand, stately, august, majestic, impressive, noble, commanding.
Imposition, n.
- 1. Imposing, putting, placing, laying.
- 2. Constraint, oppression, burden, charge, injunction, levy, tax.
- 3. Deception, fraud, trickery, artifice, cheating. See imposture.
Impossibility, n.
- 1. Impracticability, inconceivability, inability to be or occur or be done.
- 2. What cannot be, thing impossible.
Impossible, a.
- 1. Impracticable, unfeasible, unattainable, unachievable, out of the question.
- 2. Inconceivable, unthinkable, that cannot be, incapable of occurring or of being so, absurd, self-contradictory.
Impost, n. Tax, duty, custom, excise, toll, tribute, rate.
Imposthume, n. Abscess, gathering, ulcer, fester, sore, pustule.
Impostor, n. Deceiver, pretender, cheat, rogue, trickster, tricker, knave, hypocrite, Pharisee, quack, charlatan, mountebank, double-dealer.