| IMPACTIVE | • impactive adj. Of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact. • IMPACTIVE adj. relating to impact. |
| IMPASSIVE | • impassive adj. Having, or revealing, no emotion. • impassive adj. Still or motionless. • IMPASSIVE adj. not showing feeling or emotion. |
| IMPAVIDLY | • impavidly adv. Fearlessly. • IMPAVID adv. fearless; undaunted. |
| IMPLOSIVE | • implosive adj. Formed by implosion. • implosive n. (Phonetics) An implosive sound; an implodent. • IMPLOSIVE adj. of or relating to implosion. |
| IMPLUVIUM | • impluvium n. (Architecture) A low basin in the center of a household atrium, into which rainwater flowed down from… • IMPLUVIUM n. (Latin) a rain water receptacle in Roman houses. |
| IMPROVING | • improving adj. That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person). • improving v. Present participle of improve. • IMPROVE v. to make better. |
| IMPROVISE | • improvise v. To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition… • IMPROVISE v. to compose and recite, or perform, without preparation. |
| IMPULSIVE | • impulsive adj. Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent. • impulsive adj. Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings; inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration. • impulsive adj. (Mechanics) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous – said of forces. |
| PASSIVISM | • passivism n. The quality or principle of being passive. • PASSIVISM n. the doctrine of being passive. |
| PRIMITIVE | • primitive n. (Linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative. • primitive n. A member of a primitive society. • primitive n. A simple-minded person. |
| PRIVATISM | • privatism n. Concern only with issues inasmuch as they affect one as an individual; self-interest. • PRIVATISM n. a tendency to be concerned with ideas, matters, etc. only as affecting one as an individual. |
| VAMPIRING | • vampiring v. Present participle of vampire. • VAMPIRE v. to prey upon. |
| VAMPIRISE | • vampirise v. Alternative form of vampirize. • VAMPIRISE v. to play the vampire, also VAMPIRIZE. |
| VAMPIRISH | • vampirish adj. Pertaining to a vampire, characteristic of a vampire; photophobic, parasitic etc. • VAMPIRISH adj. like a vampire. |
| VAMPIRISM | • vampirism n. (Pathology) Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease). • vampirism n. (Mythology) the state of being a vampire. • vampirism n. Practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim’s life-force. |
| VAMPIRIZE | • vampirize v. (Transitive) To make into a vampire. • vampirize v. (Transitive) To drain the resources or life force of. • VAMPIRIZE v. to play the vampire, also VAMPIRISE. |
| VULPINISM | • vulpinism n. The quality of being cunning like the fox; artfulness. • VULPINISM n. foxlike cunning. |