- 2. Leaning, reclining, bearing down, pressing down, resting, weighing down, prone.
Incumbent, n. Holder, occupant (of a benefice or office).
Incumbrance, n. [Written also Encumbrance.]
- 1. Load, burden, clog, impediment, incubus, hindrance, dead weight, drag weight.
- 2. Debt, claim, liability.
Incur, v. a.
- 1. Contract, become liable to or for, become subject to.
- 2. Bring on.
Incurable, a.
- 1. Immedicable, irremedicable, cureless, remediless, hopeless, irrecoverable, past cure, beyond recovery,
beyond medical skill, beyond the help of medicine, beyond the reach of the physician’s art.
- 2. Irremediable, irretrievable, remediless, irreparable, hopeless, helpless, past mending, not to be got rid
of, that cannot be avoided, incorrigible.
Incurious, a. Uninquisitive, inattentive, unobservant, careless, heedless, indifferent, uninterested, destitute of curiosity.
Incursion, n. Inroad, irruption, foray, raid, descent, partial invasion.
Incursive, a. Hostile, aggressive, raiding, predatory.
Incurvate, v. a. Bend, bow, crook, curve, make crooked.
Incurvate, a. (Bot.) Hooked, curved, bowed, crooked, aduncous, arcuate.
Indebted, a.
- 1. Owing, in debt.
- 2. Obliged, beholden, under obligation.
Indecency, n.
- 1. Indecorum, impropriety, unseemliness, offensiveness, outrageousness.
- 2. Indelicacy, coarseness, grossness, immodesty, impurity, obscenity, foulness, filthiness, vileness.