All i synonyms
I, i
I i verb i
- caricature — A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
- boast — If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.
- color — the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths
- distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- brag — If you brag, you say in a very proud way that you have something or have done something.
- heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
- hike — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- inflate — deflate
- fudge — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
- falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- exaggerate — Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
- colour — The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours.
- embroider — Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.
- emphasise — (British) alternative spelling of emphasize.
- emphasize — Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
- enlarge — Make or become bigger or more extensive.
- exalt — Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
- expand — explain
- build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- cook up — If someone cooks up a dishonest scheme, they plan it.
pronoun i
- myself — There is no disagreement over the use of myself and other -self forms when they are used intensively (I myself cannot agree) or reflexively (He introduced himself proudly). Questions are raised, however, when the -self forms are used instead of the personal pronouns (I, me, etc.) as subjects, objects, or complements. Myself occurs only rarely as a single subject in place of I: Myself was the one who called. The recorded instances of such use are mainly poetic or literary. It is also uncommon as a simple object in place of me: Since the letter was addressed to myself, I opened it. As part of a compound subject, object, or complement, myself and to a lesser extent the other -self forms are common in informal speech and personal writing, somewhat less common in more formal speech and writing: The manager and myself completed the arrangements. Many came to welcome my husband and myself back to Washington. Myself and other -self forms are also used, alone or with other nouns or pronouns, in constructions after as, than, or but in all varieties of speech and writing: The captain has far more experience than myself in such matters. Orders have arrived for everyone but the orderlies and yourself. There is ample precedent, going as far back as Chaucer and running through the whole range of British and American literature and other serious formal writing, for all these uses. Many usage guides, however, state that to use myself in any construction in which I or me could be used instead (as My daughter and myself play the flute instead of My daughter and I, or a gift for my husband and myself instead of for my husband and me) is characteristic only of informal speech and that such use ought not to occur in writing. See also me.
- yours truly — a conventional phrase used at the end of a letter.
- me — of or involving an obsessive interest in one's own satisfaction: the me decade.