Webster's Dictionary 1828

1675

INELEGANCE

INEL'EGANCEINEL'EGANCY, noun [See Inelegant.] Want of elegance; want of beauty or polish in language, composition or manners; want of symmetry or ornament in building; want of d...

1676

INELEGANCY

INEL'EGANCY, n. [See Inelegant.] Want of elegance; want of beauty or polish in language, composition or manners; want of symmetry or ornament in building; want of delicacy in co...

1677

INELEGANT

INEL'EGANT, adjective [Latin inelegans; in and elegans, from the root of eligo, to choose.] Not elegant; wanting beauty or polish, as language, or refinement, as manners; wantin...

1678

INELEGANTLY

INEL'EGANTLY, adverb In an inelegant or unbecoming manner; coarsely; roughly.

1679

INELIGIBILITY

INELIGIBIL'ITY, noun [from ineligible.] Incapacity of being elected to an office.1. State or quality of not being worthy of choice.

1680

INELIGIBLE

INEL'IGIBLE, adjective [in and eligible.] Not capable of being elected to an office.1. Not worthy to be chosen or preferred; not expedient.

1681

INELOQUENT

INEL'OQUENT, adjective [in and eloquent.] Not eloquent; not speaking with fluency, propriety, grace and pathos; not persuasive; used of persons.1. Not fluent, graceful or pathet...

1682

INELOQUENTLY

INEL'OQUENTLY, adverb Without eloquence.

1683

INELUCTABLE

INELUCT'ABLE, adjective [Latin ineluctabilis.] Not to be resisted by struggling; not to be overcome. [Not used.]

1684

INELUDIBLE

INELU'DIBLE, adjective [in and eludible.] That cannot be eluded or defeated.

1685

INENARRABLE

INENAR'RABLE, adjective [Latin inenarrabilis.]That cannot be narrated or told.

1686

INEPT

INEPT', adjective [Latin ineptus; in and aptus, fit, apt.]1. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable.2. Improper; unbecoming; foolish.

1687

INEPTITUDE

INEPT'ITUDE, noun Unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness; as an ineptitude to motion.

1688

INEPTLY

INEPT'LY, adverb Unfitly; unsuitably; foolishly.

1689

INEPTNESS

INEPT'NESS, noun Unfitness.

1690

INEQUAL

INE'QUAL, adjective [in and equal.] Unequal; uneven; various.

1691

INEQUALITY

INEQUAL'ITY, noun [Latin inoequalitas; in and oequalis, equal.]1. Difference or want of equality in degree, quantity, length, or quality of any kind; the state of not having equ...

1692

INEQUIDISTANT

INEQUIDIS'TANT, adjective Not being equally distant.

1693

INEQUILATERAL

INEQUILAT'ERAL, adjective Having unequal sides.

1694

INEQUITABLE

INEQ'UITABLE, adjective [in and equitable.] Not equitable; not just.

1695

INEQUIVALVE

INE'QUIVALVEINEQUIVAL'VULAR, adjective Having unequal valves.

1696

INEQUIVALVULAR

INEQUIVAL'VULAR, a. Having unequal valves.

1697

INERM

INERM'INERM'OUS, adjective [Latin inermis; in and arma, arms.]Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf; a botanical word.

1698

INERMOUS

INERM'OUS, a. [L. inermis; in and arma, arms.]Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf; a botanical word.

1699

INERRABILITY

INERRABIL'ITY, noun [from inerrable.] Exemption from error or from the possibility of erring; infallibility.

1700

INERRABLE

INER'RABLE, adjective [in and err.] That cannot err; exempt from error or mistake; infallible.

1701

INERRABLENESS

INER'RABLENESS, noun Exemption from error; inerrability.