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I — Impressive to Incendiary (Part 6 of 10)

Inadvertent, a. Inattentive, thoughtless, careless, heedless, inconsiderate, unobservant, negligent.

Inadvertently, ad.

    1. Thoughtlessly, inconsiderately, carelessly, heedlessly, negligently, in an unguarded moment.
    2. By inattention, without thinking, without intention, unintentionally, by accident, by a slip.

Inalienable, a. Not to be alienated, not transferable.

Inane, a.

    1. Empty, void.
    2. Vain, frivolous, trifling, puerile, worthless, empty.

Inane, n. [With The prefixed.] Void, vacuity, vacuum, empty space.

Inanimate, a.

    1. Destitute of life, inorganic, mineral.
    2. Deprived of life, dead, breathless, extinct.
    3. Lifeless, dead, inert, soulless, spiritless.

Inanition, n.

    1. Emptiness, vacuity, inanity.
    2. Exhaustion from hunger, innutrition.

Inanity, n.

    1. Emptiness, vacuity, inanition.
    2. Vanity, frivolousness, puerility, folly, worthlessness.

In an under tone. Softly, with bated breath, in a low voice, in a low tone, sotto voce.

In a nut-shell. In a small compass, in nuce.

Inapplicability, n. Unfitness, unsuitableness, inaptness, inaptitude.

Inapplicable, a. Unfit, unsuitable, irrelevant, inapt. See inapposite.