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Capable of being infected.

Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter was so genuine as to be infectious. W. Black.

Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises. [Written also inferrible.] H. Spencer. A sufficient argument . . . is inferable from these premises. Burke.

Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled; combustible; as, inflammable oils or spirits.

Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective. Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid.

Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air. Derham.

The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Ch…

Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

Capable of being broken.[R.]

Not capable of being broken or separated into parts; as, infrangible atoms. [He] link'd their fetlocks with a golden band Infrangible. Pope.

Capable of being infused. Doctrines being infusible into all. Hammond.

Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone.

Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence. "Inimitable force." Dryden. Performing such inimitable feats. Cowper. -- In*im"i*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*im"i*ta*bly, adv.…

Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number. Innumerable as the stars of night. Milton. -- In*nu"mer*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*nu"mer*a*bly, adv.

Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation.

Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest. Bacon.

Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.

Not capable of being saturated or satisfied.