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 |
|---|---|
| undubiously | un- + dubiously |
| undubiousness | un- + dubiousness |
| undubitative | un- + dubitative |
| undubitatively | un- + dubitatively |
| unduchess | un- + duchess, to unmake a duchess |
| unductile | un- + ductile |
| unduelling | un- + duelling |
| undulatance | undulate + -ance, wavelike quality |
| undumbfounded | un- + dumbfounded |
| unduncelike | un- + duncelike |
| undupability | un- + dupability |
| unduplicative | un- + duplicative |
| unduplicity | un- + duplicity |
| undurably | un- + durably |
| undure | un- + dure (obsolete dure, to last) |
| undusty | un- + dusty |
| undyable | un- + dyable |
| undynamically | un- + dynamically |
| uneagled | un- + eagled, stripped of eagles |
| unearly | un- + early |
| unearnestly | un- + earnestly |
| unearnestness | un- + earnestness |
| uneasefulness | un- + easefulness |
| uneastern | un- + eastern |
| uneaved | un- + eaved, without eaves |
| unebullient | un- + ebullient |
| unecclesiastic | un- + ecclesiastic |
| unecclesiastically | un- + ecclesiastically |
| unechoic | un- + echoic |
| uneclectically | un- + eclectically |
| uneclipsing | un- + eclipsing |
| unecliptic | un- + ecliptic |
| unecliptical | un- + ecliptical |
| unecliptically | un- + ecliptically |
| unedacious | un- + edacious (not voracious) |
| unedaciously | un- + edaciously |
| uneddied | un- + eddied |
| uneddying | un- + eddying |
| unedibleness | un- + edibleness |
| unedibly | un- + edibly |
| unedificial | un- + edificial |
| uneducableness | un- + educableness |
| uneffable | un- + effable (not utterable) |
| uneffectible | un- + effectible |
| uneffectively | un- + effectively |
| uneffectiveness | un- + effectiveness |
| uneffectless | un- + effectless |
| uneffeminately | un- + effeminately |
| uneffervescently | un- + effervescently |
| uneffeteness | un- + effeteness |
| unefficaciously | un- + efficaciously |
| uneffulgent | un- + effulgent |
| uneffulgently | un- + effulgently |
| uneffusing | un- + effusing |
| uneffusively | un- + effusively |
| uneffusiveness | un- + effusiveness |
| unegal | un- + egal (archaic egal, equal) |
| unegally | un- + egally |
| unegalness | un- + egalness |
| unegoist | un- + egoist |
| unegotistically | un- + egotistically |
| unegregiously | un- + egregiously |
| unegregiousness | un- + egregiousness |
| unejective | un- + ejective |
| unelastically | un- + elastically |
| unelectrically | un- + electrically |
| unelegantness | un- + elegantness |
| unelementally | un- + elementally |
| uneligibility | un- + eligibility |
| uneligibly | un- + eligibly |
| uneloped | un- + eloped |
| uneloping | un- + eloping |
| unelucidative | un- + elucidative |
| uneludable | un- + eludable |
| uneluded | un- + eluded |
| unelusively | un- + elusively |
| unelusiveness | un- + elusiveness |
| unelusory | un- + elusory |
| unemanative | un- + emanative |
| unemancipative | un- + emancipative |
| unemasculative | un- + emasculative |
| unemasculatory | un- + emasculatory |
| unembased | un- + embased (obsolete embase, to degrade) |
| unembellishedness | un- + embellishedness |
| unembellishment | un- + embellishment |
| unemboweled | un- + emboweled |
| unembowelled | un- + embowelled |
| unembryonal | un- + embryonal |
| unemergent | un- + emergent |
| unemigrant | un- + emigrant |
| unemissive | un- + emissive |
| unemitting | un- + emitting |
| unemolumented | un- + emolumented, unpaid |
| unemotiveness | un- + emotiveness |
| unempaneled | un- + empaneled |
| unempanelled | un- + empanelled |
| unemphasizing | un- + emphasizing |
| unempt | un- + empt (obsolete empt, to empty) |
| unenchafed | un- + enchafed (not heated or fretted) |
| unendamaged | un- + endamaged |
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