flame; sweetheart, darling, angel; fiancee, betrothed, girl friend; paramour, mistress, concubine; intimate, Fr. intime, friend.
inamorato, n. lover, swain, amorist, gallant; suitor, wooer, pursuer, admirer, adorer; beau, sweetheart, spark, Inf. flame, love, beloved, Romeo; fianc£, betrothed, young man, boy friend; paramour, intimate, Fr. intime, friend, It. cicisbeo.
inane, adj. 1. silly, absurd, pointless, fatuous, foolish; ridiculous, ludicrous, laughable; senseless, nonsensical, Scot. and North Eng. glaikit, cockeyed; unreasonable, irrational, illogical; preposterous, extravagant, excessive; amphigoric, poppycockish, SI. cocka-mamie, Inf. piffling; childish, puerile, immature; asinine, idiotic, Inf. moronic, imbecilic; crazy, crazed, SI. kooky, Scot. doiled, mad; daft, Inf. daffy, crackbrained, Inf. nutty; All Slang, balmy, dippy, batty, cuckoo, buggy, screwy, wacky, goofy, loony.
2. dull, inexpressive, expressionless, stupid, witless, Inf dopey, empty-headed; unthinking, unreasoning, incogitant, thoughtless; unintelligent, unintellectual; vapid, insipid, banal, bland.
inanimate, adj. 1. lifeless, exanimate, inert, dead; inorganic, vegetable, mineral.
2. spiritless, soulless, vapid, apathetic; sluggish, phlegmatic; listless, torpid, torpescent; dull, flat, heavy, leaden, slow; inactive, not moving, dormant, stagnant, quiescent, abeyant; still, at rest, resting, un-moving, immobile, unstirring, stationary, statuelike, dead still, perfectly still, like stone.
inanition, n. 1. starvation, extreme hunger, extreme malnutrition; fasting, Psychiatry, anorexia, Psychiatry. anorexia nervosa.
2. lack of vigor, lethargy, listlessness, languor, languidness, torpor, torpitude; emptiness, vacuity, vacuousness.
inanity, n. 1. silliness, absurdity, absurdness, pointlessness, fatuousness, foolishness, Archaic, insip-ience, folly; tomfoolery, foolery, fooling, clownery; senselessness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensical-ity, meaninglessness; poppycock, amphigory, bosh, drivel, gibberish, balderdash; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; inappropriateness, ineptness, ineptitude, improperness, impropriety, incongruousness, incongruity, inconsistence, inconsistency; preposterousness, extravagance, excessiveness.
2. ridiculous, ridiculosity, laughableness, ludicrousness; comicality, comicalness, funniness, humor, humorousness, drollness; asininity, idiocy, idioticalness, Inf. moronism, Inf moronity, imbecility; craziness, SI. kookiness, madness, daftness, Inf. nuttiness; All Slang, balminess, bugginess, screwiness, goofiness, wackiness, looniness.
3. dullness, inexpressiveness, stupidity, witlessness, fatuity, Inf. dopiness, empty-headedness; unintelligence, unintellectualness, thoughtlessness; emptiness, voidness, vacancy, vacuousness, blankness; vapidity, insipidness, banality, blandness.
4. triviality, triflingness, pettiness; unimportance, inconsequentially, immateriality, inconsiderableness, insignificance; superficiality, shallowness, frothiness, frivolousness; paltriness, meagerness.
inappeasable, adj. implacable, not to be pacified, unpacifiable, unmollifiable, unreconcilable; unforgiving, grudge-holding, vengeful, revengeful; rigid, firm, adamant, unbending, hard, inexorable, relentless; merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, unpitying; uncompas-sionate, uncompassioned, unsympathizing, unsympathetic, hard-hearted, heartless.
inapplicable, adj. 1. unsuitable, unsuited, unfitting, unfit; unapt, inapt, inappropriate.
2. irrelevant, ungermane, nongermane, inapposite, unpertinent, impertinent, beside the point or question, off the mark, Inf. off base; nonrelated, nonrelational, unrelated, irrelative, nonrelative, unconnected; inconsequent, inconsistent, nothing to do with the case or matter at hand, off the subject, out of keeping; alien, foreign, extraneous, superfluous.