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 |
|---|---|
| unprotrusively | un- + protrusively |
| unprotuberant | un- + protuberant |
| unprotuberantly | un- + protuberantly |
| unproverbially | un- + proverbially |
| unprovincialism | un- + provincialism |
| unprovincially | un- + provincially |
| unprovisional | un- + provisional |
| unprovocatively | un- + provocatively |
| unprowling | un- + prowling |
| unproximity | un- + proximity, want of nearness |
| unprudentially | un- + prudentially |
| unprunable | un- + prunable |
| unpsychically | un- + psychically |
| unpsychologically | un- + psychologically |
| unpublicly | un- + publicly |
| unpublishableness | un- + publishableness |
| unpugnaciously | un- + pugnaciously |
| unpugnaciousness | un- + pugnaciousness |
| unpulleyed | un- + pulleyed, not fitted with a pulley |
| unpulsating | un- + pulsating |
| unpulsative | un- + pulsative |
| unpulverable | un- + pulverable (reducible to powder) |
| unpulverised | un- + pulverised |
| unpulverize | un- + pulverize |
| unpulvinate | un- + pulvinate (botany, cushion-shaped) |
| unpulvinated | un- + pulvinated |
| unpumicated | un- + pumicated, not rubbed with pumice |
| unpunctiliously | un- + punctiliously |
| unpunctiliousness | un- + punctiliousness |
| unpunishedness | un- + punishedness |
| unpured | un- + pured, not purified (pure as a verb) |
| unpurgative | un- + purgative |
| unpurgatively | un- + purgatively |
| unpuristic | un- + puristic |
| unpuritanic | un- + puritanic |
| unpurported | un- + purported |
| unpursuant | un- + pursuant |
| unputative | un- + putative |
| unputatively | un- + putatively |
| unputridity | un- + putridity |
| unputridly | un- + putridly |
| unputridness | un- + putridness |
| unquadded | un- + quadded (printing, spaced out with quads) |
| unquaking | un- + quaking |
| unquerulously | un- + querulously |
| unquerulousness | un- + querulousness |
| unquested | un- + quested, not sought after |
| unquickness | un- + quickness |
| unquiescently | un- + quiescently |
| unquietous | unquiet + -ous, restless, causing unquiet |
| unquixotical | un- + quixotical |
| unquixotically | un- + quixotically |
| unquizzable | un- + quizzable |
| unquizzical | un- + quizzical |
| unrabbinic | un- + rabbinic |
| unradiative | un- + radiative |
| unradically | un- + radically |
| unraffled | un- + raffled, not disposed of by raffle |
| unraiseable | un- + raiseable |
| unrallying | un- + rallying |
| unrancored | un- + rancored |
| unrancoured | un- + rancoured (British spelling) |
| unrancourous | un- + rancourous (British rancorous) |
| unranging | un- + ranging |
| unrank | un- + rank, not rank or overgrown |
| unrankled | un- + rankled |
| unranting | un- + ranting |
| unrapaciously | un- + rapaciously |
| unrapaciousness | un- + rapaciousness |
| unrapturously | un- + rapturously |
| unrapturousness | un- + rapturousness |
| unrashly | un- + rashly |
| unrashness | un- + rashness |
| unrasping | un- + rasping |
| unraspy | un- + raspy |
| unrationable | un- + rationable (obsolete, rational) |
| unrationalising | un- + rationalising |
| unrationalizing | un- + rationalizing |
| unrationally | un- + rationally |
| unraving | un- + raving |
| unreactionary | un- + reactionary |
| unrebel | un- + rebel, not rebellious |
| unrebukeable | un- + rebukeable |
| unrebuttableness | un- + rebuttableness |
| unrecalcitrant | un- + recalcitrant |
| unrecalling | un- + recalling |
| unrecanting | un- + recanting |
| unreceptant | un- + receptant (receptive) |
| unrecessive | un- + recessive |
| unrecessively | un- + recessively |
| unrecipient | un- + recipient |
| unreciprocally | un- + reciprocally |
| unrecitative | un- + recitative |
| unreckingness | unrecking + -ness, heedlessness |
| unreckless | un- + reckless |
| unreckon | un- + reckon, to undo a reckoning |
| unrecluse | un- + recluse |
| unrecoded | un- + recoded |
| unrecognitory | un- + recognitory |
| unrecoined | un- + recoined |
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