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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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9,815 words match “IND”

the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial. The indeciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo. Sir T. Browne.

Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes. Cowell.

INDECIPHERABLE a.

Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.

Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation. The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it. Shenstone. Indecision . . . is the natural accomplice of violence.…

INDECISIVE a. 2 definitions

Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer. The campaign had everywhere been indecisive. Macaulay.

INDECISIVELY adv.

Without decision.

INDECISIVENESS n.

The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.

INDECLINABLE a. 2 definitions

t declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun. -- n.

INDECLINABLY adv. 2 definitions

Without variation.

INDECOMPOSABLE a.

Not decomposable; incapable or difficult of decomposition; not resolvable into its constituents or elements.

INDECOMPOSABLENESS n.

Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.

manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke.

INDECOROUSLY adv.

In an indecorous manner.

INDECOROUSNESS n.

The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.

INDECORUM n. 2 definitions

havior or manners which violates the established rules of civility, custom, or etiquette; indecorousness.

INDEED adv. 2 definitions

; in fact; verily; truly; -- used in a variety of sense. Esp.: (a) Denoting emphasis; as, indeed it is so.

INDEFATIGABILITY n.

The state of being indefatigable.

INDEFATIGABLE a.

usted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with indefatigable wings. Milton.

INDEFATIGABLENESS n.

Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency. Parnell.

INDEFATIGABLY adv.

Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.