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.