Real Words Without Definition
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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 |
|---|---|
| unlook | un- + look, to look away or undo a look |
| unloosably | un- + loosably |
| unloquaciously | un- + loquaciously |
| unlosableness | un- + losableness |
| unloudly | un- + loudly |
| unlounging | un- + lounging |
| unlovesome | un- + lovesome, not lovable |
| unlubricant | un- + lubricant |
| unlubricating | un- + lubricating |
| unlubricative | un- + lubricative |
| unlucidly | un- + lucidly |
| unlucidness | un- + lucidness |
| unluckful | un- + luckful (lucky) |
| unludicrously | un- + ludicrously |
| unludicrousness | un- + ludicrousness |
| unluffed | un- + luffed (nautical, to luff a sail) |
| unlugubriously | un- + lugubriously |
| unlugubriousness | un- + lugubriousness |
| unlumbering | un- + lumbering, not moving heavily |
| unluminescent | un- + luminescent |
| unluminiferous | un- + luminiferous |
| unluminously | un- + luminously |
| unluminousness | un- + luminousness |
| unlumpy | un- + lumpy |
| unlunate | un- + lunate, not crescent shaped |
| unlunated | un- + lunated |
| unlured | un- + lured |
| unlurking | un- + lurking |
| unlush | un- + lush |
| unlustered | un- + lustered |
| unlustie | un- + lustie (old spelling of lusty) |
| unlustier | un- + lustier |
| unlustiest | un- + lustiest |
| unlustily | un- + lustily |
| unlusting | un- + lusting |
| unlustred | un- + lustred (British lustered) |
| unlustrously | un- + lustrously |
| unluxated | un- + luxated, not dislocated |
| unluxuriantly | un- + luxuriantly |
| unluxuriating | un- + luxuriating |
| unlycanthropize | un- + lycanthropize |
| unlyric | un- + lyric |
| unlyricalness | un- + lyricalness |
| unmachinated | un- + machinated, not plotted |
| unmachinating | un- + machinating |
| unmachineable | un- + machineable |
| unmackly | un- + mackly (dialect, shapely, even) |
| unmadded | un- + madded, not driven mad |
| unmagistratelike | un- + magistratelike |
| unmagnanimousness | un- + magnanimousness |
| unmaid | un- + maid, to deprive of maidenhood |
| unmailableness | un- + mailableness |
| unmaimable | un- + maimable |
| unmalarial | un- + malarial |
| unmaledictive | un- + maledictive |
| unmaledictory | un- + maledictory |
| unmalevolently | un- + malevolently |
| unmalignantly | un- + malignantly |
| unmalleableness | un- + malleableness |
| unmammonized | un- + mammonized |
| unmancipated | un- + mancipated (Roman law, conveyed) |
| unmandatory | un- + mandatory |
| unmanducated | un- + manducated, not chewed |
| unmaneged | un- + maneged (manege, schooled as a horse) |
| unmaniable | un- + maniable (obsolete, manageable) |
| unmaniac | un- + maniac |
| unmaniacally | un- + maniacally |
| unmanifestative | un- + manifestative |
| unmanipulative | un- + manipulative |
| unmanipulatory | un- + manipulatory |
| unmannish | un- + mannish |
| unmannishly | un- + mannishly |
| unmannishness | un- + mannishness |
| unmanored | un- + manored, without a manor |
| unmanual | un- + manual |
| unmanually | un- + manually |
| unmanumissible | un- + manumissible, not able to be freed |
| unmarbelize | un- + marbelize (variant of marbleize) |
| unmarbelized | un- + marbelized |
| unmarbelizing | un- + marbelizing |
| unmarbleize | un- + marbleize |
| unmarbleized | un- + marbleized |
| unmarbleizing | un- + marbleizing |
| unmarch | un- + march, to march back |
| unmarching | un- + marching |
| unmarginally | un- + marginally |
| unmarring | un- + marring |
| unmartyr | un- + martyr, to unmake a martyr |
| unmarvellously | un- + marvellously (British spelling) |
| unmarvellousness | un- + marvellousness (British spelling) |
| unmarvelously | un- + marvelously |
| unmarvelousness | un- + marvelousness |
| unmasquerade | un- + masquerade |
| unmasticatory | un- + masticatory |
| unmaterially | un- + materially |
| unmateriate | un- + materiate (obsolete, material) |
| unmatrimonially | un- + matrimonially |
| unmaturative | un- + maturative |
| unmatureness | un- + matureness |
| unmaudlinly | un- + maudlinly |
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