Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 28
Incorrect (a.) 不正確的；錯誤的；不真實的；不適當的；不合適的 Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation.
Incorrect (a.) Not accordant with duty or morality; not duly regulated or subordinated; unbecoming; improper; as, incorrect conduct.
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. -- Shak.
The wit of the last age was yet more incorrect than their language. -- Dryden.
Syn: Inaccurate; erroneous; wrong; faulty.
Incorrect (a.) Not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions" [syn: {incorrect}, {wrong}] [ant: {correct}, {right}].
Incorrect (a.) Not in accord with established usage or procedure; "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"; "it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts" [syn: {wrong}, {incorrect}].
Incorrect (a.) (Of a word or expression) Not agreeing with grammatical principles.
Incorrect (a.) Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road" [syn: {faulty}, {incorrect}, {wrong}].
Incorrection (n.) （語言行為等）失禮，不當 Lack of correction, restraint, or discipline. [Obs.] -- Arnway.
Incorrectly (adv.) 錯誤地 Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.
Incorrectly (adv.) In an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely" [syn: falsely, incorrectly].
Incorrectly (adv.) In an inaccurate manner; "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong" [syn: incorrectly, wrongly, wrong] [ant: aright, correctly, right].
Incorrectness (n.) 錯誤 The quality of being incorrect; lack of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as, incorrectness may consist in defect or in redundance. Incorrespondence
Incorrectness (n.) Lack of conformity to social expectations [ant: correctness].
Incorrectness (n.) The quality of not conforming to fact or truth [syn: incorrectness, wrongness] [ant: correctness, rightness].
Incorrespondence (n.) Alt. of Incorrespondency.
Incorrespondency (n.) Lack of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. [R.]
Incorresponding (a.) Not corresponding; disagreeing. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Incorrigibility (n.) 無法矯正 The state or quality of being incorrigible.
The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. -- Barrow.
Incorrigible (a.) 無藥可救的，積習難改的，固執的 Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." -- Dryden.
Incorrigible (n.) 無法矯正的人；不可救藥的人 One who is incorrigible; a person whose persistent bad behavior cannot be changed; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles; incorrigible and disruptive children need to be placed in a separate classroom.
Incorrigible (a.) Impervious to correction by punishment [ant: {corrigible}].
Incorrigible (a.) (Mainly humorous) 無可救藥的 An incorrigible person or incorrigible behaviour is bad and impossible to change or improve.
// An incorrigible liar/ rogue.
Incorrigibleness (n.) Incorrigibility. -- Dr. H. More.
Incorrigibly (adv.) 不能矯正地；根深蒂固地 In an incorrigible manner.
Incorrodible (a.) 抗腐蝕 Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away.
Incorrupt (a.) 不腐敗的；不被收買的；廉正的 Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.
Incorrupt (a.) Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest. -- Milton.
Your Christian principles . . . which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals. -- Bp. Hurd.
Incorrupt (a.) Free of corruption or immorality; "a policeman who was incorrupt and incorruptible" [ant: corrupt].
Incorrupt (a.) Free of corruption or immorality.
Incorrupted (a.) 未腐敗的；未墮落的；未被收買的；未腐爛的 Uncorrupted. [Obs.]
Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. -- Sir J. Davies.
Incorruptibility (n.) 廉潔；不腐朽性 The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. -- Holland.
Incorruptibility (n.) The incapability of being corrupted [ant: corruptibility].
Incorruptible (a.) 不腐敗的；不能收買的；清廉的 Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible.
Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. -- Wake.
Incorruptible (a.) Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.
Incorruptible (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was Incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.
Incorruptible (a.) Incapable of being morally corrupted; "incorruptible judges are the backbone of the society".
Incorruptibly (adv.) 不能收買地；廉潔地 In an incorruptible manner.
Incorruption (n.) 不腐敗；清廉潔白 The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption.
It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. -- 1 Cor. xv. 42.
The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. -- Sir T. Browne.
Incorruption (n.) Characterized by integrity or probity [syn: incorruptness, incorruption] [ant: corruption, corruptness].
Incorruptive (a.) 不腐敗的；不能收買的；清廉的 Incorruptible; not liable to decay. -- Akenside.
Incorruptly (adv.) Without corruption.
To demean themselves incorruptly. -- Milton.
Incorruptness (n.) 正直；清廉；【古】不腐敗 Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.
Incorruptness (n.) Probity; integrity; honesty. -- Woodward.
Incorruptness (n.) Characterized by integrity or probity [syn: incorruptness, incorruption] [ant: corruption, corruptness].
Incrassated (imp. & p. p.) of Incrassate.
Incrassating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incrassate.
Incrassate (v. t.) 【藥】濃縮；【廢】使濃厚 To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts.
Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. -- Sir I. Newton.
Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. -- Sir T. Browne.
Incrassate (v. i.) 【廢】變厚 To become thick or thicker. Incrassate
Incrassate (a.) Alt. of Incrassated
Incrassated (a.) Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.
Incrassated (a.) (Bot.) Thickened; becoming thicker. -- Martyn.
Incrassated (a.) (Zool.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennae of certain insects.
Incrassation (n.) [生] 增厚；肥厚 The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.
Incrassation (n.) The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. -- Sir T. Browne.
Incrassative (a.) Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken. -- Harvey.
Incrassative (n.) A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors. -- Harvey.
Increasable (a.) 可增加的 Capable of being increased. --Sherwood. -- In*creas"a*ble*ness, n.
An indefinite increasableness of some of our ideas. -- Bp. Law.
Increased (imp. & p. p.) of Increase.
Increasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Increase.
Increase (v. i.) 增大；增加；增強；增殖 To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.
The waters increased and bare up the ark. -- Gen. vii. 17.
He must increase, but I must decrease. -- John iii. 30.
The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase, Even as our days do grow! -- Shak.
Increase (v. i.) To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn. -- Sir M. Hale.
Increase (v. i.) (Astron.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
Increasing function (Math.), a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished; also called a monotonically increasing function.
Syn: To enlarge; extend; multiply; expand; develop; heighten; amplify; raise; enhance; spread; aggravate; magnify; augment; advance.
Usage: To Increase, Enlarge, Extend. Enlarge implies to make larger or broader in size. Extend marks the progress of enlargement so as to have wider boundaries. Increase denotes enlargement by growth and internal vitality, as in the case of plants. A kingdom is enlarged by the addition of new territories; the mind is enlarged by knowledge. A kingdom is extended when its boundaries are carried to a greater distance from the center. A man's riches, honors, knowledge, etc., are increased by accessions which are made from time to time.
Increase (v. t.) 增大；增加；增強 To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
I will increase the famine. -- Ezek. v. 16.
Make denials Increase your services. -- Shak.
Increase (n.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on. -- Shak.
For things of tender kind for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. -- Dryden.
Increase (n.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
Take thou no usury of him, or increase. -- Lev. xxv. 36.
Let them not live to taste this land's increase. -- Shak.
Increase (n.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. -- 1 Sam. ii. 33.
Increase (n.) Generation. [Obs.] "Organs of increase." -- Shak.
Increase (n.) (Astron.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. -- Bacon.
Increase twist, The twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.
Syn: Enlargement; extension; growth; development; increment; addition; accession; production.
Increase (n.) A quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks" [syn: addition, increase, gain].
Increase (n.) A change resulting in an increase; "the increase is scheduled for next month" [ant: decrease, drop-off, lessening].
Increase (n.) A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" [syn: increase, increment, growth] [ant: decrease, decrement].
Increase (n.) The amount by which something increases; "they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare" [syn: increase, increment] [ant: decrease, decrement].
Increase (n.) The act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary" [syn: increase, step-up] [ant: decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down].
Increase (v.) Become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" [ant: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen].
Increase (v.) Make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" [ant: decrease, lessen, minify].
Increaseful (a.) Full of increase; abundant in produce.
Increasement (n.) Increase.
Increaser (n.) One who, or that, increases.
Increasingly (adv.) More and more.
Increated (imp. & p. p.) of Increate.
Increating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Increate.
Increate (v. t.) To create within. [R.] Increate
Increate (a.) Alt. of Increated.
Increated (a.) （指神靈等）非創造出來的；原存地的 Uncreated; self-existent. [R.]
Bright effluence of bright essence increate. -- Milton.
Incredibility (n.) 不可信；不可信的事物 The quality or state of being incredible; incredibleness. -- Dryden.
Incredibility (n.) That which is incredible. -- Johnson.
Incredibility (n.) The quality of being incredible [syn: incredibility, incredibleness] [ant: believability, credibility, credibleness].
Incredible (a.) 不能相信的，不可信的 [Z]；【口】難以置信的；驚人的；極妙的 Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? -- Acts xxvi. 8.
Incredible (a.) Beyond belief or understanding; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible" [syn: incredible, unbelievable] [ant: believable, credible].
Incredible (a.) (Difficult to believe) (B2) 難以置信的 Impossible, or very difficult, to believe.
// An incredible story.
// The latest missiles can be fired with incredible accuracy.
// It seems incredible that no one foresaw the crisis.
Incredible (a.) (Extreme) (B1) (Informal) 極好的 Extremely good.
// Yeah, it was an incredible performance.
// What an incredible motorbike!
Incredibleness (n.) 不可信；不可信的事物 Incredibility.
Incredibly (adv.) 難以置信地；很，極為In an incredible manner.
Incredibly (adv.) Not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains" [syn: incredibly, improbably, implausibly, unbelievably] [ant: believably, credibly, plausibly, probably].
Incredibly (adv.) Exceedingly; extremely; "she plays fabulously well" [syn: fabulously, fantastically, incredibly].
Incredibly (adv.) (Difficult to believe) (C1) 難以置信地 Used for saying that something is very difficult to believe.
// Incredibly, no one was hurt in the accident.
Incredibly (adv.) (Extremely) (B2) 極其 Extremely.
// He was incredibly rich/ angry/ quick.
// An incredibly loud bang followed the flash.
Incredited (a.) Uncredited.
Incredulity (n.) 不輕信；不相信；懷疑 [U] The state or quality of being incredulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.
Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational. -- Buckminster.
Incredulity (n.) Doubt about the truth of something [syn: incredulity, disbelief, skepticism, mental rejection].
Incredulous (a.) 不輕信的；不相信的；懷疑的 [（+of/ about）]；表示不相信的，表示懷疑的 Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. -- Bacon.
A fantastical incredulous fool. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Incredulous (a.) Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. "An incredulous smile." -- Longfellow.
Incredulous (a.) Incredible; not easy to be believed. [R.] -- Shak.
Incredulous (a.) Not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving [ant: credulous].
Incredulously (adv.) 不相信地；懷疑地 In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.
Incredulously (adv.) In an incredulous manner; "the woman looked up at her incredulously" [syn: incredulously, unbelievingly, disbelievingly] [ant: believingly, credulously].
Incredulousness (n.) Incredulity.
Incredulousness (n.) (Uncountable) (Rare) Incredulity; the state of being skeptical or in disbelief.
Compare: Incredulity
Incredulity (n.) [Mass noun] 不輕信；不相信；懷疑 [U] The state of being unwilling or unable to believe something.
‘He stared down the street in incredulity.’
Compare: Skeptical
Skeptical (a.) 懷疑論的，不可知論的；懷疑宗教教條的 Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations.
‘The public were deeply sceptical about some of the proposals.’
Skeptical (a.) [Philosophy] Relating to the theory that certain knowledge is impossible.
Incremable (a.) Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe.
Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.
Incremation (n.) Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.
Increment (n.) 增加；增加量；增額 The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.
The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. -- Woodward.
A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. -- Coleridge.
Increment (n.) Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. "Large increment." -- J. Philips.
Increment (n.) (Math.) The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.
Increment (n.) (Rhet.) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage:
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. -- Phil. iv. 8.
Infinitesimal increment (Math.), An infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus.
Method of increments (Math.), A calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences.
Increment (n.) A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" [syn: increase, increment, growth] [ant: decrease, decrement].
Increment (n.) The amount by which something increases; "they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare" [syn: increase, increment] [ant: decrease, decrement].
Incremental (a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.
Increpate (v. t.) To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [Obs.] -- Hammond.
Increpation (n.) A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [Obs.] -- Hammond.
Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.
Between the incresent and decrescent moon. -- Tennyson.
Increscent (a.) (Her.) Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side.
Increst (v. t.) To adorn with a crest. [R.] -- Drummond.
Incriminated (imp. & p. p.) of Incriminate.
Incriminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incriminate.
Incriminate (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
Incriminate (v.) Suggest that someone is guilty [syn: incriminate, imply, inculpate].
Incriminate (v.) Bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse" [syn: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate].
Incrimination (n.) The act of incriminating; crimination.
Incrimination (n.) An accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed; "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on the driver" [syn: incrimination, inculpation, blame].
Incriminatory (a.) Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory.
Incriminatory (a.) Charging or suggestive of guilt or blame; "incriminatory testimony" [syn: criminative, criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory].
Incruental (a.) Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice. [Obs.] -- Brevint.
Incrusted (imp. & p. p.) of Incrust.
Incrusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incrust.
Incrust (v. t.) To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar.
And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard. -- Thomson.
Incrust (v. t.) (Fine Arts) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
Incrust (v.) Decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) [syn: encrust, incrust, beset].
Incrust (v.) Cover or coat with a crust [syn: encrust, incrust].
Incrust (v.) Form a crust or a hard layer [syn: encrust, incrust].
Incrustate (a.) Incrusted. -- Bacon.
Incrustate (v. t.) To incrust. [R.] -- Cheyne.
Incrustation (n.) The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
Incrustation (n.) A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.