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 |
|---|---|
| unrescissory | un- + rescissory |
| unresemblance | un- + resemblance, want of likeness |
| unresident | un- + resident, non-resident |
| unresidential | un- + residential |
| unresidual | un- + residual |
| unresifted | un- + resifted |
| unresignedly | un- + resignedly |
| unresiliently | un- + resiliently |
| unresinous | un- + resinous |
| unresistedness | un- + resistedness |
| unresistive | un- + resistive |
| unresoluteness | un- + resoluteness |
| unresonantly | un- + resonantly |
| unresonating | un- + resonating |
| unresounded | un- + resounded |
| unrespectively | un- + respectively |
| unrespectiveness | un- + respectiveness |
| unresplendently | un- + resplendently |
| unresponsal | un- + responsal (obsolete, answerable) |
| unrestitutive | un- + restitutive |
| unrestorableness | un- + restorableness |
| unrestriction | un- + restriction, freedom from restriction |
| unresultive | un- + resultive |
| unresumptive | un- + resumptive |
| unresurrected | un- + resurrected |
| unresuscitating | un- + resuscitating |
| unresuscitative | un- + resuscitative |
| unretaining | un- + retaining |
| unretentively | un- + retentively |
| unretentiveness | un- + retentiveness |
| unreticence | un- + reticence |
| unreticently | un- + reticently |
| unretractive | un- + retractive |
| unretreated | un- + retreated |
| unretributory | un- + retributory |
| unretrievingly | un- + retrievingly |
| unretroactive | un- + retroactive |
| unretroactively | un- + retroactively |
| unretrograded | un- + retrograded |
| unretrograding | un- + retrograding |
| unretrogressive | un- + retrogressive |
| unretrogressively | un- + retrogressively |
| unreturnableness | un- + returnableness |
| unrevelational | un- + revelational |
| unrevelationize | un- + revelationize |
| unreveling | un- + reveling, not making merry |
| unrevelling | un- + revelling (British spelling) |
| unrevengingly | un- + revengingly |
| unrevenue | un- + revenue, yielding no revenue |
| unreverberant | un- + reverberant |
| unreverberating | un- + reverberating |
| unreverberative | un- + reverberative |
| unreverentness | un- + reverentness |
| unreversibleness | un- + reversibleness |
| unreversibly | un- + reversibly |
| unrevocableness | un- + revocableness |
| unrevokable | un- + revokable |
| unreworded | un- + reworded |
| unrhapsodical | un- + rhapsodical |
| unrhapsodically | un- + rhapsodically |
| unrhetoricalness | un- + rhetoricalness |
| unrheumatic | un- + rheumatic |
| unridableness | un- + ridableness |
| unridiculously | un- + ridiculously |
| unridiculousness | un- + ridiculousness |
| unrigidly | un- + rigidly |
| unrigidness | un- + rigidness |
| unrind | un- + rind, to strip of rind or bark |
| unrioting | un- + rioting |
| unriotously | un- + riotously |
| unriotousness | un- + riotousness |
| unrisible | un- + risible |
| unritually | un- + ritually |
| unrivaledness | un- + rivaledness |
| unrivaling | un- + rivaling |
| unrivalling | un- + rivalling (British spelling) |
| unrived | un- + rived, not split |
| unrobustly | un- + robustly |
| unrocky | un- + rocky |
| unromanticalness | un- + romanticalness |
| unromanticism | un- + romanticism |
| unrostrated | un- + rostrated (not beaked) |
| unrotary | un- + rotary |
| unrotational | un- + rotational |
| unrotative | un- + rotative |
| unrotatory | un- + rotatory |
| unroted | un- + roted, not learned by rote |
| unrout | un- + rout, to undo a rout |
| unroutine | un- + routine |
| unroutinely | un- + routinely |
| unrow | un- + row, to undo by rowing |
| unrowdy | un- + rowdy |
| unroyalized | un- + royalized |
| unroyalness | un- + royalness |
| unrubified | un- + rubified, not reddened |
| unrubrically | un- + rubrically |
| unruddled | un- + ruddled, not marked with ruddle |
| unrudely | un- + rudely |
| unruefulness | un- + ruefulness |
| unruinous | un- + ruinous |
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