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 |
|---|---|
| unopprobriously | un- + opprobriously |
| unopprobriousness | un- + opprobriousness |
| unopted | un- + opted, not chosen |
| unoptimistical | un- + optimistical |
| unoptionally | un- + optionally |
| unopulence | un- + opulence, absence of wealth |
| unopulently | un- + opulently |
| unoral | un- + oral, not spoken |
| unorally | un- + orally |
| unorational | un- + orational, not of an oration |
| unoratorial | un- + oratorial |
| unoratorically | un- + oratorically |
| unorbital | un- + orbital |
| unorbitally | un- + orbitally |
| unordinal | un- + ordinal |
| unordinateness | un- + ordinateness (unordinate, inordinate) |
| unordnanced | un- + ordnanced, not armed with ordnance |
| unorganicalness | un- + organicalness |
| unorientally | un- + orientally |
| unorientalness | un- + orientalness |
| unoriginalness | un- + originalness |
| unoriginatively | un- + originatively |
| unoriginativeness | un- + originativeness |
| unornamentalness | un- + ornamentalness |
| unornamentation | un- + ornamentation, lack of ornament |
| unornately | un- + ornately |
| unornateness | un- + ornateness |
| unosculated | un- + osculated, not kissed |
| unosmotic | un- + osmotic |
| unossifying | un- + ossifying |
| unostensibly | un- + ostensibly |
| unostensive | un- + ostensive |
| unostensively | un- + ostensively |
| unoverclouded | un- + overclouded |
| unoverdone | un- + overdone |
| unoverdrawn | un- + overdrawn |
| unoverleaped | un- + overleaped |
| unoverpaid | un- + overpaid |
| unovervalued | un- + overvalued |
| unowing | un- + owing, not owed |
| unown | un- + own, to disown or disclaim |
| unoxidative | un- + oxidative |
| unoxidisable | un- + oxidisable |
| unpacifiedly | un- + pacifiedly |
| unpacifiedness | un- + pacifiedness |
| unpacifistic | un- + pacifistic |
| unpaginal | un- + paginal, not of pages |
| unpaintedly | un- + paintedly |
| unpalatal | un- + palatal |
| unpalatally | un- + palatally |
| unpalisadoed | un- + palisadoed, not fenced with palisades |
| unpalliative | un- + palliative |
| unpanegyrised | un- + panegyrised |
| unpanel | un- + panel, to strike off a jury panel |
| unpantheistical | un- + pantheistical |
| unpantheistically | un- + pantheistically |
| unpapaverous | un- + papaverous, not poppy-like |
| unparadoxal | un- + paradoxal |
| unparasitically | un- + parasitically |
| unpardon | un- + pardon, to revoke a pardon |
| unpardonedness | un- + pardonedness |
| unparentally | un- + parentally |
| unparenthesised | un- + parenthesised |
| unparenthetic | un- + parenthetic |
| unparenthetical | un- + parenthetical |
| unparenthetically | un- + parenthetically |
| unparliamented | un- + parliamented, having no parliament |
| unparochialism | un- + parochialism |
| unparochially | un- + parochially |
| unparolable | un- + parolable |
| unparrying | un- + parrying |
| unpartableness | un- + partableness (partable, divisible) |
| unpartably | un- + partably, indivisibly |
| unpartialness | un- + partialness |
| unparticularising | un- + particularising |
| unparticularness | un- + particularness |
| unpartitive | un- + partitive |
| unpartook | un- + partook |
| unpassively | un- + passively |
| unpastor | un- + pastor, to deprive of a pastorate |
| unpathological | un- + pathological |
| unpathologically | un- + pathologically |
| unpatriarchally | un- + patriarchally |
| unpatristical | un- + patristical |
| unpatristically | un- + patristically |
| unpatronisable | un- + patronisable |
| unpatternized | un- + patternized, without a pattern |
| unpayment | un- + payment, failure to pay |
| unpeculating | un- + peculating, not embezzling |
| unpeculiar | un- + peculiar |
| unpeculiarly | un- + peculiarly |
| unpecuniarily | un- + pecuniarily |
| unpedantical | un- + pedantical |
| unpeelableness | un- + peelableness |
| unpeevishly | un- + peevishly |
| unpeevishness | un- + peevishness |
| unpejoratively | un- + pejoratively |
| unpelagic | un- + pelagic, not of the open sea |
| unpenally | un- + penally |
| unpendant | un- + pendant, not hanging |
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