Real Words Without Definition
We're sure about this one.
A normal word with something added to the front or the back.
You can read these without being told what they mean. lifehood is life plus -hood. citydom is city plus -dom. musicproof is music plus -proof. Around 21,753 words in the list carry a prefix like un-, non-, over- or anti-.
Nothing is wrong with them. No dictionary bothered to list them because the meaning is obvious from the parts.
24,323 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | How it is built |
|---|---|
| unbehoveful | un- + behoveful, not needful |
| unbejuggled | un- + bejuggled |
| unbeliefful | un- + beliefful |
| unbelieffulness | un- + belieffulness |
| unbemourned | un- + bemourned |
| unbender | unbend + -er, one who unbends |
| unbendsome | un- + bendsome, not pliant |
| unbeneficently | un- + beneficently |
| unbeneficially | un- + beneficially |
| unbeneficialness | un- + beneficialness |
| unbenetted | un- + benetted, not caught in a net |
| unbenevolentness | un- + benevolentness |
| unbenight | un- + benight, to free from darkness |
| unbenignness | un- + benignness |
| unbereaven | un- + bereaven, archaic past participle of bereave |
| unberouged | un- + berouged |
| unbeseechingly | un- + beseechingly |
| unbesmutted | un- + besmutted |
| unbesot | un- + besot |
| unbeteared | un- + beteared, not tear-stained |
| unbetide | un- + betide, to fail to happen |
| unbetoken | un- + betoken |
| unbewilderedly | un- + bewilderedly |
| unbewilderingly | un- + bewilderingly |
| unbewilled | un- + bewilled |
| unbewitchingly | un- + bewitchingly |
| unbewrayed | un- + bewrayed, not disclosed |
| unbiassable | un- + biassable |
| unbibulously | un- + bibulously |
| unbibulousness | un- + bibulousness |
| unbickered | un- + bickered |
| unbigamous | un- + bigamous |
| unbigamously | un- + bigamously |
| unbigotedness | un- + bigotedness |
| unbiliously | un- + biliously |
| unbiliousness | un- + biliousness |
| unbiographically | un- + biographically |
| unbirdlimed | un- + birdlimed |
| unblamability | un- + blamability |
| unblameworthiness | un- + blameworthiness |
| unblightedly | un- + blightedly |
| unblightedness | un- + blightedness |
| unblithely | un- + blithely |
| unbloodiness | un- + bloodiness |
| unblottedness | un- + blottedness |
| unbluestockingish | un- + bluestockingish |
| unbluffing | un- + bluffing |
| unblunder | un- + blunder, to undo a blunder |
| unblusterous | un- + blusterous |
| unblusterously | un- + blusterously |
| unboat | un- + boat, to put out of a boat |
| unbodkined | un- + bodkined, without a bodkin |
| unbohemianize | un- + bohemianize |
| unboisterously | un- + boisterously |
| unboisterousness | un- + boisterousness |
| unbolden | un- + bolden, to make less bold |
| unboldness | un- + boldness |
| unbombastically | un- + bombastically |
| unbondableness | un- + bondableness |
| unbooklearned | un- + book-learned |
| unborough | un- + borough, not of a borough |
| unboundableness | un- + boundableness |
| unbounteously | un- + bounteously |
| unbounteousness | un- + bounteousness |
| unbountifulness | un- + bountifulness |
| unbowingness | un- + bowingness |
| unboyishness | un- + boyishness |
| unbracedness | un- + bracedness |
| unbracelet | un- + bracelet, to strip of bracelets |
| unbragged | un- + bragged |
| unbraveness | un- + braveness |
| unbrawling | un- + brawling |
| unbrawny | un- + brawny |
| unbrazenly | un- + brazenly |
| unbrazenness | un- + brazenness |
| unbreachableness | un- + breachableness |
| unbreachably | un- + breachably |
| unbreath | un- + breath, want of breath |
| unbreathableness | un- + breathableness |
| unbriefly | un- + briefly |
| unbriefness | un- + briefness |
| unbrightly | un- + brightly |
| unbrightness | un- + brightness |
| unbrilliantness | un- + brilliantness |
| unbrittleness | un- + brittleness |
| unbroad | un- + broad |
| unbrooch | un- + brooch, to unfasten a brooch |
| unbrowsing | un- + browsing |
| unbrutalise | un- + brutalise |
| unbrutalising | un- + brutalising |
| unbrutelike | un- + brutelike |
| unbrutise | un- + brutise, British spelling of unbrutize |
| unbrutised | un- + brutised |
| unbrutising | un- + brutising |
| unbrutize | un- + brutize, to raise above the brutish |
| unbrutized | un- + brutized |
| unbrutizing | un- + brutizing |
| unbud | un- + bud, to strip of buds |
| unbudding | un- + budding |
| unbulled | un- + bulled |
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