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 |
|---|---|
| unneglectfully | un- + neglectfully |
| unnegotiableness | un- + negotiableness |
| unnegro | un- + Negro |
| unneighborlike | un- + neighborlike |
| unnephritic | un- + nephritic |
| unnervously | un- + nervously |
| unnervousness | un- + nervousness |
| unnet | un- + net, not netted |
| unneural | un- + neural |
| unneuralgic | un- + neuralgic |
| unneurotically | un- + neurotically |
| unneutralise | un- + neutralise (British spelling) |
| unneutralising | un- + neutralising (British spelling) |
| unneutralize | un- + neutralize |
| unneutralizing | un- + neutralizing |
| unnewly | un- + newly |
| unnewsed | un- + newsed, not reported as news |
| unnitrogenised | un- + nitrogenised (British spelling) |
| unnitrogenous | un- + nitrogenous |
| unnobilitated | un- + nobilitated, not ennobled |
| unnobility | un- + nobility |
| unnocturnal | un- + nocturnal |
| unnocturnally | un- + nocturnally |
| unnoddingly | un- + noddingly |
| unnoisily | un- + noisily |
| unnomadically | un- + nomadically |
| unnominal | un- + nominal |
| unnominalistic | un- + nominalistic |
| unnominally | un- + nominally |
| unnominative | un- + nominative |
| unnooked | un- + nooked, without nooks |
| unnormalising | un- + normalising (British spelling) |
| unnormalness | un- + normalness |
| unnormative | un- + normative |
| unnose | un- + nose, to deprive of a nose |
| unnotational | un- + notational |
| unnotional | un- + notional |
| unnotionally | un- + notionally |
| unnotioned | un- + notioned |
| unnovel | un- + novel |
| unnovercal | un- + novercal (stepmotherly) |
| unnumber | un- + number |
| unnumberableness | un- + numberableness |
| unnumberedness | un- + numberedness |
| unnumerated | un- + numerated |
| unnumerously | un- + numerously |
| unnumerousness | un- + numerousness |
| unnutritiously | un- + nutritiously |
| unnuzzled | un- + nuzzled |
| unnymphal | un- + nymphal |
| unnymphean | un- + nymphean |
| unobdurately | un- + obdurately |
| unobdurateness | un- + obdurateness |
| unobesely | un- + obesely |
| unobeseness | un- + obeseness |
| unobjectivized | un- + objectivized |
| unobligating | un- + obligating |
| unobligative | un- + obligative |
| unobliviously | un- + obliviously |
| unobliviousness | un- + obliviousness |
| unobnoxiously | un- + obnoxiously |
| unobnoxiousness | un- + obnoxiousness |
| unobscenely | un- + obscenely |
| unobsceneness | un- + obsceneness |
| unobscurely | un- + obscurely |
| unobscureness | un- + obscureness |
| unobstinately | un- + obstinately |
| unobstruently | un- + obstruently (obstruent, obstructing) |
| unobumbrated | un- + obumbrated, not overshadowed |
| unobverted | un- + obverted |
| unobviable | un- + obviable |
| unoccasionally | un- + occasionally |
| unoccidentally | un- + occidentally |
| unoccupiedly | un- + occupiedly |
| unodiously | un- + odiously |
| unodiousness | un- + odiousness |
| unodored | un- + odored, without odour |
| unodoriferously | un- + odoriferously |
| unodoriferousness | un- + odoriferousness |
| unodorously | un- + odorously |
| unodorousness | un- + odorousness |
| unoecumenic | un- + oecumenic (older spelling of ecumenic) |
| unoffender | un- + offender |
| unold | un- + old |
| unominously | un- + ominously |
| unominousness | un- + ominousness |
| unomnipotently | un- + omnipotently |
| unomnisciently | un- + omnisciently |
| unonerously | un- + onerously |
| unonerousness | un- + onerousness |
| unoperably | un- + operably |
| unoperatable | un- + operatable |
| unoperatically | un- + operatically |
| unopiated | un- + opiated |
| unopiatic | un- + opiatic |
| unopinioned | un- + opinioned |
| unoppignorated | un- + oppignorated, not pawned or pledged |
| unopposedness | un- + opposedness |
| unopposite | un- + opposite |
| unoppositional | un- + oppositional |
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