inhumanity, n. cruelty, cruelness, brutality, brutishness; barbarity, barbarousness, ferocity, fierceness, savagery, savageness, truculence; atrocity, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, cold-bloodedness; viciousness, malice, maliciousness, malevolence, ill will, unkindness, spite, malignity, venom; acrimony, bitterness, sharpness, harshness, severity, severeness, grimness; ruthlessness, hard-heartedness, pitilessness, mercilessness, heartlessness; relentlessness, remorselessness, implacability, inexorability; sadism, masochism; fiendishness, deviltry, diablery.
inhume, v. bury, inter, Archaic, inearth, inurn, entomb, ensepulcher, sepulcher; lay away, Inf. lay to rest, SI. put six feet under, consign to the grave, Dial. funeralize.
inimical, adj. 1. harmful, dangerous, detrimental, deleterious, pernicious; injurious, hurtful, damaging, baneful; ruinous, destructive, extirpative; noxious, unhealthy, unwholesome, poisonous, venomous, septic, toxic, virulent.
2. hostile, antagonistic, opposed, adverse, averse, contrary; unfriendly, unkind, unsympathetic, inhospitable, cold, unsociable; malicious, mean, ugly, malevolent; aggressive, belligerent, bellicose.
inimitable, adj. faultless, perfect, consummate, ideal; superlative, preeminent, crack, prime, very best; incomparable, model, unexampled, unmatched, admirable, recherchd, Archaic, eximious. See - incomparable.
iniquitous, adj. 1. wicked, sinful, evil, Archaic, fa-cinorous, Obs. scelerate, Obs. scelerous; nefarious, villainous, flagitious, heinous, infamous, notorious, Rare, nefast; black-hearted, sinister, perverse, arrant, ignoble; bad, base, vile, foul, low, mean, odious, obnoxious; abominable, execrable, horrible, atrocious, grievous; damnable, damnatory, accursed, cursed; malevolent, maleficent, malefic, ill-intentioned, evil-minded; unholy, unrighteous, unblest.
2. criminal, wrong, reprehensible, felonious, lawless; unfair, unjust, inequitable; unscrupulous, unprincipled, crooked, dishonorable; blackguardly, knavish, scoundrelly, thievish; unregenerate, unrepentant, impenitent, obdurate, incorrigible; degenerate, corrupt, turpitudinous; depraved; immoral, dissolute, profligate, reprobate, abandoned, dissipated; opprobrious, disgraceful, shameful; scandalous, shocking, flagrant, outrageous.
iniquity, n. 1. wickedness, evil, vice, improbity, sin, sinfulness, deviltry, ungodliness, godlessness; nefariousness, flagitiousness, heinousness; vileness, viciousness, badness, baseness, foulness, meanness; atrocity, outrage, abomination, crime, malefaction, wrongdoing, feloniousness, lawlessness; perfidy, treachery, foul play; villainy, knavery, rascality, delinquency.
2. inequity, unfairness, unjustness, partiality, bias, prejudice, closed-mindedness, narrow-mindedness, intolerance, bigotry; wrongfulness, unlawfulness, illegality.
3. crime, offense, transgression, violation, injury, Law. malfeasance, malefaction; atrocity, monstrosity, horror, outrage.
initial, adj. 1. first, prime, primary, original, aboriginal, autochthonous; incipient, inchoate, incunab-ular, beginning, commencing, opening; nascent, natal, infant, infantile; inaugural, introductory, initiating, initiative; elementary, fundamental, rudimentary, foundational; creative, formative, drawing-board.
-v. 2. sign, undersign, put one's mark or cross on, Inf. put one's John Hancock on; letter, inscribe, engrave, mark, Archaic, character.