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 |
|---|---|
| unmaze | un- + maze, to free from bewilderment |
| unmeanderingly | un- + meanderingly |
| unmeaningfulness | un- + meaningfulness |
| unmeasurely | un- + measurely |
| unmeddlingly | un- + meddlingly |
| unmeddlingness | un- + meddlingness |
| unmediating | un- + mediating |
| unmediative | un- + mediative |
| unmedicative | un- + medicative |
| unmedicinally | un- + medicinally |
| unmeditating | un- + meditating |
| unmeditatively | un- + meditatively |
| unmeedful | un- + meedful (meed, a reward) |
| unmeedy | un- + meedy (meed, a reward) |
| unmelancholically | un- + melancholically |
| unmellifluent | un- + mellifluent |
| unmellifluently | un- + mellifluently |
| unmellifluously | un- + mellifluously |
| unmelodised | un- + melodised (British spelling) |
| unmeltedness | un- + meltedness |
| unmemoired | un- + memoired, without a memoir |
| unmemorialised | un- + memorialised (British spelling) |
| unmendaciously | un- + mendaciously |
| unmenially | un- + menially |
| unmentally | un- + mentally |
| unmentholated | un- + mentholated |
| unmercenarily | un- + mercenarily |
| unmerchandised | un- + merchandised |
| unmerchantly | un- + merchantly |
| unmerciable | un- + merciable (obsolete, merciful) |
| unmerciably | un- + merciably |
| unmercurially | un- + mercurially |
| unmercurialness | un- + mercurialness |
| unmeretriciously | un- + meretriciously |
| unmeretriciousness | un- + meretriciousness |
| unmeridional | un- + meridional |
| unmeridionally | un- + meridionally |
| unmeringued | un- + meringued |
| unmeritability | un- + meritability |
| unmerrily | un- + merrily |
| unmesmerically | un- + mesmerically |
| unmetalised | un- + metalised (British spelling) |
| unmetallically | un- + metallically |
| unmetallurgic | un- + metallurgic |
| unmetallurgically | un- + metallurgically |
| unmetaphysically | un- + metaphysically |
| unmeteorologic | un- + meteorologic |
| unmeteorologically | un- + meteorologically |
| unmethodic | un- + methodic |
| unmethodised | un- + methodised (British spelling) |
| unmethodising | un- + methodising (British spelling) |
| unmethodizing | un- + methodizing |
| unmetred | un- + metred (British metered) |
| unmetricalness | un- + metricalness |
| unmetrified | un- + metrified, not put into metre |
| unmettle | un- + mettle, to take the spirit out of |
| unmiasmal | un- + miasmal |
| unmiasmatic | un- + miasmatic |
| unmiasmatical | un- + miasmatical |
| unmiasmic | un- + miasmic |
| unmicrobial | un- + microbial |
| unmicrobic | un- + microbic |
| unmicroscopically | un- + microscopically |
| unmidwifed | un- + midwifed |
| unmigrant | un- + migrant |
| unmigrative | un- + migrative |
| unmigratory | un- + migratory |
| unmild | un- + mild |
| unmildness | un- + mildness |
| unmilitantly | un- + militantly |
| unmilitarised | un- + militarised (British spelling) |
| unmilitaristically | un- + militaristically |
| unmillinered | un- + millinered, without millinery |
| unmimeographed | un- + mimeographed |
| unmimetic | un- + mimetic |
| unmimetically | un- + mimetically |
| unmingleable | un- + mingleable |
| unminimised | un- + minimised (British spelling) |
| unminimising | un- + minimising (British spelling) |
| unministrant | un- + ministrant |
| unministrative | un- + ministrative |
| unmirthfulness | un- + mirthfulness |
| unmisanthropical | un- + misanthropical |
| unmisanthropically | un- + misanthropically |
| unmiscarrying | un- + miscarrying |
| unmischievously | un- + mischievously |
| unmisconceivable | un- + misconceivable |
| unmisguidedly | un- + misguidedly |
| unmistressed | un- + mistressed, without a mistress |
| unmistrustfully | un- + mistrustfully |
| unmisunderstanding | un- + misunderstanding |
| unmisunderstood | un- + misunderstood |
| unmitigability | un- + mitigability |
| unmoaning | un- + moaning |
| unmobile | un- + mobile |
| unmobilised | un- + mobilised (British spelling) |
| unmoble | un- + moble (obsolete, to muffle up) |
| unmodel | un- + model |
| unmoderateness | un- + moderateness |
| unmodestly | un- + modestly |
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