Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: infidel – inflate
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infidel, adj. [Fr. < L. infidelis, unfaithful, unbelieving.] (webplay: faith).
Unfaithful; faithless; disloyal; inconstant; [fig.] shameful; disgraceful; dishonorable.
infidel, n. [see infidel, adj.]
Unbeliever; person devoid of faith; person who is in denial.
infinite (-r), adj. [OFr < L. infīnītus, unbounded.] (webplay: boundless, condescension, end, existence, extent, God, great, large, man, size, space, time).
- Perpetual; lasting; constant; timeless.
- All-encompassing; [fig.] of greatest importance; of deepest significance.
- Totally satisfying; completely fulfilling; physically and spiritually healing.
- Extensive; boundless; having no limit.
- Weighty; heavy; engulfing; engrossing; all-absorbing.
- Inestimable; priceless; immeasurably valuable.
- Endless; immense; omnipresent; long-lasting.
- Immortal; eternal; omnipotent.
- Beyond circumference; [fig.] sublime; unspeakably beautiful; surpassingly brilliant.
- True; real; actual; divine; heavenly.
- Deathless; amaranthine; remembered forever after death.
- Exceedingly great; high in calculation; undeterminable in scope.
- Deep; intense; profound; immeasurable; incalculable.
- Completed; absolute; total.
infinite (-r), adv. [see infinite, adj.]
- Totally; completely; beyond reach.
- Deeply; soundly; profoundly.
- Eternally; everlastingly; forever; more than mortal.
- Repeatedly; time after time; over and over again.
- Immeasurably; much better; in a superior way.
- Boundlessly; timelessly; without constraints; beyond mortal realms.
infinite ('s), n. [see infinite, adj.]
- God; eternal being; boundless individual; omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Deity.
- Continuity; endlessness; never-ending state.
- Eternal immensity; [fig.] immortality.
- Entirety; totality; boundless nature; unlimited existence.
- Truth; aspects of heaven; ornaments of divinity.
- Afterlife; hereafter; eternal life; [fig.] result of death.
infiniteness, n. [see infinite, adj.] (webplay: time).
Exceedingly great; immense quantity.
infinitude, n. [see infinite, adj.]
Omnipotence; Omniscience; [fig.] God; Deity; Supreme Being; Heavenly Father.
infinity, n. [Fr. infinité < L. infīnītās, endlessness, boundlessness, infinity.] (webplay: beauties, extent, God, power, space).
- Extent; endlessness; unlimited time; [fig.] Deity; immortality; eternal nature.
- Immensity of existence.
- Boundlessness; limitlessness; agelessness; timeless nature; endless expanse of time, space, and domain.
- Complete fulfillment; total consummation.
- Eternity; paradise; nirvana; Elysium; eternal life.
- Incomprehensible identity; [fig.] total holiness; sacred anonymity; divine namelessness.
- Truth; everything; endless light, love, and joy; all good things that are, have been, and will be.
- Phrase. “Finite infinity”: life; compound of mortal and immortal existence.
infirm, adj. [Fr. < L. infirmus, weak or feeble.]
Weak; unstable; unsteady; fallible; frail; fragile; shaky; wavering; delicate; [fig.] mortal; finite.
inflate (-s), v. [L. inflāre, blow.]
- Swell; exaggerate; overstate.
- Amplify; expand; become magnified; [fig.] increase in radiance.