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 |
|---|---|
| ungestural | un- + gestural |
| ungetable | un- + getable (obtainable) |
| ungiant | un- + giant |
| ungibbet | un- + gibbet |
| ungift | un- + gift |
| ungill | un- + gill |
| ungingled | un- + gingled (jingled) |
| ungirlishness | un- + girlishness |
| ungivingness | un- + givingness |
| unglacial | un- + glacial |
| unglacially | un- + glacially |
| unglaring | un- + glaring |
| unglassy | un- + glassy |
| unglee | un- + glee |
| ungleefully | un- + gleefully |
| unglib | un- + glib |
| unglibly | un- + glibly |
| ungliding | un- + gliding |
| unglittery | un- + glittery |
| unglobe | un- + globe |
| unglobularly | un- + globularly |
| ungloom | un- + gloom |
| ungloomily | un- + gloomily |
| unglory | un- + glory |
| unglosed | un- + glosed (glossed) |
| unglowering | un- + glowering |
| ungloweringly | un- + gloweringly |
| unglutinate | un- + glutinate |
| unglutinosity | un- + glutinosity |
| unglutinously | un- + glutinously |
| unglutinousness | un- + glutinousness |
| ungnarred | un- + gnarred (snarled) |
| ungnaw | un- + gnaw |
| ungoddess | un- + goddess |
| ungodmothered | un- + godmothered |
| ungoitered | un- + goitered |
| ungospel | un- + gospel |
| ungovernmental | un- + governmental |
| ungovernmentally | un- + governmentally |
| ungradating | un- + gradating |
| ungraduating | un- + graduating |
| ungraft | un- + graft |
| ungrain | un- + grain |
| ungrainable | un- + grainable |
| ungranular | un- + granular |
| ungraphical | un- + graphical |
| ungrappler | un- + grappler |
| ungratification | un- + gratification |
| ungratitude | un- + gratitude, ingratitude |
| ungratuitously | un- + gratuitously |
| ungratuitousness | un- + gratuitousness |
| ungravitating | un- + gravitating |
| ungravitational | un- + gravitational |
| ungravitative | un- + gravitative |
| ungreatly | un- + greatly |
| ungreatness | un- + greatness |
| ungreeable | un- + greeable (aphetic agreeable) |
| ungregariously | un- + gregariously |
| ungregariousness | un- + gregariousness |
| ungrid | un- + grid |
| ungrinned | un- + grinned |
| ungropeable | un- + gropeable |
| ungroundably | un- + groundably |
| ungroveling | un- + groveling |
| ungrovelling | un- + grovelling |
| ungrowling | un- + growling |
| ungrumblingly | un- + grumblingly |
| unguentarian | unguent + -arian, a dealer in unguents |
| unguessing | un- + guessing |
| unguidableness | un- + guidableness |
| unguilefulness | un- + guilefulness |
| unguiltless | un- + guiltless |
| ungull | un- + gull, to undeceive |
| ungullibility | un- + gullibility |
| ungullible | un- + gullible |
| ungulp | un- + gulp |
| ungustatory | un- + gustatory |
| ungutturally | un- + gutturally |
| ungutturalness | un- + gutturalness |
| ungyrating | un- + gyrating |
| unhabitability | un- + habitability |
| unhabitably | un- + habitably |
| unhabituatedness | un- + habituatedness |
| unhaft | un- + haft, to strip of its handle |
| unhaggled | un- + haggled |
| unhairily | un- + hairily |
| unhallooed | un- + hallooed |
| unhallucinated | un- + hallucinated |
| unhallucinating | un- + hallucinating |
| unhallucinatory | un- + hallucinatory |
| unhaltingly | un- + haltingly |
| unhanked | un- + hanked (coiled in hanks) |
| unhardily | un- + hardily |
| unhardness | un- + hardness |
| unharmonically | un- + harmonically |
| unharping | un- + harping |
| unharshly | un- + harshly |
| unharshness | un- + harshness |
| unhave | un- + have, to be without |
| unhazardously | un- + hazardously |
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