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 |
|---|---|
| unmodestness | un- + modestness |
| unmodificative | un- + modificative |
| unmodifiedness | un- + modifiedness |
| unmodishly | un- + modishly |
| unmodulative | un- + modulative |
| unmoisten | un- + moisten |
| unmoldableness | un- + moldableness |
| unmolest | un- + molest |
| unmomentousness | un- + momentousness |
| unmonarchically | un- + monarchically |
| unmonopolised | un- + monopolised (British spelling) |
| unmonopolising | un- + monopolising (British spelling) |
| unmonotonously | un- + monotonously |
| unmoody | un- + moody |
| unmoralist | un- + moralist |
| unmorally | un- + morally |
| unmorbidly | un- + morbidly |
| unmorbidness | un- + morbidness |
| unmordant | un- + mordant |
| unmordantly | un- + mordantly |
| unmoribundly | un- + moribundly |
| unmorosely | un- + morosely |
| unmoroseness | un- + moroseness |
| unmorphologically | un- + morphologically |
| unmorrised | un- + morrised (danced as a morris) |
| unmortalize | un- + mortalize |
| unmortifiedly | un- + mortifiedly |
| unmortise | un- + mortise, to loosen from a mortise |
| unmortising | un- + mortising |
| unmossy | un- + mossy |
| unmotile | un- + motile |
| unmotionable | un- + motionable |
| unmotioned | un- + motioned |
| unmotioning | un- + motioning |
| unmotored | un- + motored, without a motor |
| unmournfully | un- + mournfully |
| unmouthpieced | un- + mouthpieced, without a mouthpiece |
| unmucilaged | un- + mucilaged |
| unmultiplicable | un- + multiplicable |
| unmultiplicative | un- + multiplicative |
| unmultipliedly | un- + multipliedly |
| unmumbled | un- + mumbled |
| unmumbling | un- + mumbling |
| unmundanely | un- + mundanely |
| unmundified | un- + mundified, not cleansed |
| unmunicipalised | un- + municipalised (British spelling) |
| unmunificently | un- + munificently |
| unmurmurously | un- + murmurously |
| unmuscularly | un- + muscularly |
| unmusing | un- + musing |
| unmusked | un- + musked, not scented with musk |
| unmusted | un- + musted, not gone musty |
| unmutant | un- + mutant |
| unmutation | un- + mutation |
| unmutational | un- + mutational |
| unmutative | un- + mutative |
| unmutilative | un- + mutilative |
| unmutinously | un- + mutinously |
| unmutinousness | un- + mutinousness |
| unmuttering | un- + muttering |
| unmutteringly | un- + mutteringly |
| unmutualised | un- + mutualised (British spelling) |
| unmutually | un- + mutually |
| unmysticalness | un- + mysticalness |
| unmysticise | un- + mysticise (British spelling) |
| unmysticised | un- + mysticised (British spelling) |
| unmysticising | un- + mysticising (British spelling) |
| unmysticize | un- + mysticize |
| unmysticized | un- + mysticized |
| unmysticizing | un- + mysticizing |
| unmythically | un- + mythically |
| unmythologically | un- + mythologically |
| unnacreous | un- + nacreous |
| unnaggingly | un- + naggingly |
| unnaive | un- + naive |
| unnaively | un- + naively |
| unnapt | un- + napt (napped, of cloth) |
| unnarcissistic | un- + narcissistic |
| unnarcotic | un- + narcotic |
| unnarrative | un- + narrative |
| unnarrowly | un- + narrowly |
| unnasal | un- + nasal |
| unnasally | un- + nasally |
| unnascent | un- + nascent |
| unnation | un- + nation, to strip of nationhood |
| unnationalistically | un- + nationalistically |
| unnationally | un- + nationally |
| unnaturalist | un- + naturalist |
| unnealed | un- + nealed (obsolete neal, to anneal) |
| unneaped | un- + neaped (left aground by a neap tide) |
| unnearly | un- + nearly |
| unnearness | un- + nearness |
| unnecessitous | un- + necessitous |
| unnecessitously | un- + necessitously |
| unnecessitousness | un- + necessitousness |
| unnectareous | un- + nectareous |
| unnectarial | un- + nectarial |
| unnefariously | un- + nefariously |
| unnefariousness | un- + nefariousness |
| unneglectful | un- + neglectful |
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