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 |
|---|---|
| unrecollective | un- + recollective |
| unrecreating | un- + recreating |
| unrecreational | un- + recreational |
| unrectangularly | un- + rectangularly |
| unrecumbently | un- + recumbently |
| unrecuperative | un- + recuperative |
| unrecuperativeness | un- + recuperativeness |
| unrecuperatory | un- + recuperatory |
| unrecurrently | un- + recurrently |
| unrecusant | un- + recusant |
| unredemptive | un- + redemptive |
| unreduct | un- + reduct (obsolete verb, to reduce back) |
| unreformative | un- + reformative |
| unrefractively | un- + refractively |
| unrefractiveness | un- + refractiveness |
| unrefrainable | un- + refrainable |
| unrefrained | un- + refrained, unrestrained |
| unrefrangible | un- + refrangible (not refractable) |
| unrefulgently | un- + refulgently |
| unrefutability | un- + refutability |
| unregard | un- + regard, disregard |
| unregimentally | un- + regimentally |
| unregressively | un- + regressively |
| unregressiveness | un- + regressiveness |
| unregrettably | un- + regrettably |
| unregulable | un- + regulable |
| unrehearsing | un- + rehearsing |
| unreimbodied | un- + reimbodied (reembodied) |
| unreiterating | un- + reiterating |
| unreiterative | un- + reiterative |
| unrejective | un- + rejective |
| unrejuvenating | un- + rejuvenating |
| unrelatively | un- + relatively |
| unrelativistic | un- + relativistic |
| unrelayed | un- + relayed |
| unreleasible | un- + releasible |
| unrelegable | un- + relegable |
| unrelentable | un- + relentable |
| unrelentance | unrelent + -ance, want of relenting |
| unrelevantly | un- + relevantly |
| unreliant | un- + reliant |
| unrelievability | un- + relievability |
| unrelievedness | un- + relievedness |
| unreligioned | un- + religioned, having no religion |
| unremarking | un- + remarking |
| unreminiscently | un- + reminiscently |
| unremissive | un- + remissive |
| unremittence | un- + remittence |
| unremittency | un- + remittency |
| unremonstrative | un- + remonstrative, not given to remonstrance |
| unremoteness | un- + remoteness |
| unrenovative | un- + renovative |
| unrenownedly | un- + renownedly |
| unrenunciable | un- + renunciable |
| unrenunciative | un- + renunciative |
| unrenunciatory | un- + renunciatory |
| unreorganised | un- + reorganised |
| unrepairs | un- + repairs, disrepair |
| unrepartable | un- + repartable (able to be reparted) |
| unrepealableness | un- + repealableness |
| unrepellently | un- + repellently |
| unrepent | un- + repent, unrepentant |
| unrepetitiousness | un- + repetitiousness |
| unrepiqued | un- + repiqued (piquet, not scored a repique against) |
| unreplete | un- + replete |
| unrepleteness | un- + repleteness |
| unrepleviable | un- + repleviable (law, recoverable by replevin) |
| unreplevinable | un- + replevinable |
| unreplevined | un- + replevined |
| unreplevisable | un- + replevisable |
| unrepliably | un- + repliably, unanswerably |
| unreportedly | un- + reportedly |
| unreportedness | un- + reportedness |
| unreportorial | un- + reportorial |
| unreposefully | un- + reposefully |
| unreprehensibleness | un- + reprehensibleness |
| unreprehensibly | un- + reprehensibly |
| unrepresentational | un- + representational |
| unrepression | un- + repression |
| unrepressively | un- + repressively |
| unrepressiveness | un- + repressiveness |
| unreprievably | un- + reprievably |
| unreprimanding | un- + reprimanding |
| unreproachfulness | un- + reproachfulness |
| unreprobative | un- + reprobative |
| unreprobatively | un- + reprobatively |
| unreproductively | un- + reproductively |
| unreproductiveness | un- + reproductiveness |
| unreprovedness | un- + reprovedness |
| unrepudiative | un- + repudiative |
| unrepugnable | un- + repugnable (resistible) |
| unrepugnantly | un- + repugnantly |
| unrepulsively | un- + repulsively |
| unrepulsiveness | un- + repulsiveness |
| unrequest | un- + request, not requested |
| unrequickened | un- + requickened |
| unrequisitely | un- + requisitely |
| unrequisiteness | un- + requisiteness |
| unrequiter | un- + requiter, one who fails to requite |
| unrescissable | un- + rescissable (not annullable) |
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