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 |
|---|---|
| unsnugly | un- + snugly |
| unsnugness | un- + snugness |
| unsoaring | un- + soaring |
| unsoberly | un- + soberly |
| unsocialising | un- + socialising (British -ise) |
| unsocializing | un- + socializing |
| unsociologically | un- + sociologically |
| unsoftness | un- + softness |
| unsoldier | un- + soldier, to strip of soldierly quality |
| unsoldiery | un- + soldiery |
| unsolemnified | un- + solemnified |
| unsolemnised | un- + solemnised (British -ise) |
| unsolemnness | un- + solemnness |
| unsolicitude | un- + solicitude |
| unsoling | un- + soling, taking the sole off |
| unsolubleness | un- + solubleness |
| unsolubly | un- + solubly |
| unsomatic | un- + somatic |
| unsomberly | un- + somberly |
| unsomberness | un- + somberness |
| unsombrely | un- + sombrely (British spelling) |
| unsombreness | un- + sombreness (British spelling) |
| unsomnolent | un- + somnolent |
| unsomnolently | un- + somnolently |
| unsonable | un- + sonable, not able to sound |
| unsonant | un- + sonant, voiceless |
| unsonantal | un- + sonantal |
| unsonneted | un- + sonneted |
| unsonorously | un- + sonorously |
| unsonorousness | un- + sonorousness |
| unsoothingly | un- + soothingly |
| unsophomorical | un- + sophomorical |
| unsophomorically | un- + sophomorically |
| unsoporiferous | un- + soporiferous |
| unsoporiferously | un- + soporiferously |
| unsoporiferousness | un- + soporiferousness |
| unsoporific | un- + soporific |
| unsorely | un- + sorely |
| unsoreness | un- + soreness |
| unsorriness | un- + sorriness |
| unsoulfully | un- + soulfully |
| unsoulfulness | un- + soulfulness |
| unsoulish | un- + soulish |
| unsoundableness | un- + soundableness |
| unsourly | un- + sourly |
| unsourness | un- + sourness |
| unspaciously | un- + spaciously |
| unspaciousness | un- + spaciousness |
| unspan | un- + span, to unyoke a team |
| unspanning | un- + spanning |
| unsparsely | un- + sparsely |
| unsparseness | un- + sparseness |
| unspasmed | un- + spasmed |
| unspasmodic | un- + spasmodic |
| unspasmodical | un- + spasmodical |
| unspasmodically | un- + spasmodically |
| unspecialising | un- + specialising (British -ise) |
| unspeciously | un- + speciously |
| unspeciousness | un- + speciousness |
| unspecterlike | un- + specterlike |
| unspectrelike | un- + spectrelike (British spelling) |
| unspeculatory | un- + speculatory |
| unspeedful | un- + speedful |
| unspeedily | un- + speedily |
| unspeediness | un- + speediness |
| unspeller | un- + speller, one who breaks a spell |
| unspherical | un- + spherical |
| unspiable | un- + spiable, not able to be spied |
| unspicily | un- + spicily |
| unspiciness | un- + spiciness |
| unspinsterlikeness | un- + spinsterlikeness |
| unspirally | un- + spirally |
| unspiring | un- + spiring, not shooting up |
| unspirituous | un- + spirituous |
| unspissated | un- + spissated, not thickened |
| unspitefully | un- + spitefully |
| unspleenish | un- + spleenish, not peevish |
| unspleenishly | un- + spleenishly |
| unsplendidness | un- + splendidness |
| unsplendorous | un- + splendorous |
| unsplendorously | un- + splendorously |
| unsplendourous | un- + splendourous (British spelling) |
| unsplendourously | un- + splendourously (British spelling) |
| unsplenetic | un- + splenetic |
| unsplenetically | un- + splenetically |
| unspookish | un- + spookish |
| unsportively | un- + sportively |
| unsportiveness | un- + sportiveness |
| unspouselike | un- + spouselike |
| unsproutful | un- + sproutful |
| unspuriously | un- + spuriously |
| unspuriousness | un- + spuriousness |
| unsputtering | un- + sputtering |
| unsquabbling | un- + squabbling |
| unsquashable | un- + squashable |
| unsquirming | un- + squirming |
| unstabilising | un- + stabilising (British -ise) |
| unstagily | un- + stagily |
| unstaginess | un- + staginess |
| unstagnant | un- + stagnant |
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