Chapter Impassible to Impression of I by Soule's Synonymes

Importunate, a. Urgent, pertinacious, pressing, teasing, busy, earnestly solicitous.

Importune, v. a. Press (by entreaty), urge (by repeated requests), beset, entreat, dun, solicit earnestly.

Importunity, n. Entreaty, urgency, insistence, pressing solicitation, persistent entreaty.

Impose, v. a.

1. Put, lay, set, place.

2. Prescribe, enjoin, appoint.

3. Obtrude, palm, pass off.

Impose on. Impose upon. Deceive, cheat, chouse, trick, be-fool, hoax, dupe, delude, circumvent, victimize, play upon, put upon.

Imposing, a. Grand, stately, august, majestic, impressive, noble, commanding.

Imposition, n.

1. Imposing, putting, placing, laying.

2. Constraint, oppression, burden, charge, injunction, levy, tax.

3. Deception, fraud, trickery, artifice, cheating. See imposture.

Impossibility, n.

1. Impracticability, inconceivability, inability to be or occur or be done.

2. What cannot be, thing impossible.

Impossible, a.

1. Impracticable, unfeasible, unattainable, unachievable, out of the question.

2. Inconceivable, unthinkable, that cannot be, incapable of occurring or of being so, absurd, self-contradictory.

Impost, n. Tax, duty, custom, excise, toll, tribute, rate.

Imposthume, n. Abscess, gathering, ulcer, fester, sore, pustule.

Impostor, n. Deceiver, pretender, cheat, rogue, trickster, tricker, knave, hypocrite, Pharisee, quack, charlatan, mountebank, double-dealer.