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 |
|---|---|
| unsulfurized | un- + sulfurized |
| unsulkily | un- + sulkily |
| unsulkiness | un- + sulkiness |
| unsullenly | un- + sullenly |
| unsulphureness | un- + sulphure + -ness, British spelling |
| unsulphureousness | un- + sulphureousness |
| unsumptuary | un- + sumptuary |
| unsumptuously | un- + sumptuously |
| unsumptuousness | un- + sumptuousness |
| unsun | un- + sun, to deprive of sunlight |
| unsuperciliously | un- + superciliously |
| unsuperciliousness | un- + superciliousness |
| unsuperficially | un- + superficially |
| unsuperfluously | un- + superfluously |
| unsuperiorly | un- + superiorly |
| unsuperlatively | un- + superlatively |
| unsuperlativeness | un- + superlativeness |
| unsupernaturalize | un- + supernaturalize |
| unsupernaturally | un- + supernaturally |
| unsupernaturalness | un- + supernaturalness |
| unsuperseding | un- + superseding |
| unsuperstitiousness | un- + superstitiousness |
| unsupervisory | un- + supervisory |
| unsupine | un- + supine, not lying on the back |
| unsupplemental | un- + supplemental |
| unsupplementary | un- + supplementary |
| unsuppliant | un- + suppliant |
| unsupplicating | un- + supplicating |
| unsupplicatingly | un- + supplicatingly |
| unsupply | un- + supply, the adverb of supple |
| unsuppositional | un- + suppositional |
| unsuppositive | un- + suppositive |
| unsuppressibly | un- + suppressibly |
| unsuppression | un- + suppression |
| unsurcharge | un- + surcharge, to remove a surcharge |
| unsurgically | un- + surgically |
| unsurlily | un- + surlily |
| unsurliness | un- + surliness |
| unsurmountableness | un- + surmountableness |
| unsurrealistic | un- + surrealistic |
| unsurrealistically | un- + surrealistically |
| unsusceptibleness | un- + susceptibleness |
| unsusceptibly | un- + susceptibly |
| unsuspectfully | un- + suspectfully |
| unsuspectfulness | un- + suspectfulness |
| unsuspendible | un- + suspendible |
| unswaggering | un- + swaggering |
| unswaggeringly | un- + swaggeringly |
| unswampy | un- + swampy |
| unswathable | un- + swathable |
| unswatheable | un- + swatheable, swathe spelling kept |
| unswayableness | un- + swayableness |
| unsweetenedness | un- + sweetenedness |
| unsweltering | un- + sweltering |
| unswing | un- + swing, to swing back |
| unsyllabicated | un- + syllabicated |
| unsyllabified | un- + syllabified |
| unsyllogistical | un- + syllogistical |
| unsyllogistically | un- + syllogistically |
| unsymbolicalness | un- + symbolicalness |
| unsympathised | un- + sympathised, British -ised |
| unsympathisingly | un- + sympathisingly |
| unsympathizability | un- + sympathizability |
| unsympathizable | un- + sympathizable |
| unsymphoniously | un- + symphoniously |
| unsymptomatical | un- + symptomatical |
| unsymptomatically | un- + symptomatically |
| unsynchronously | un- + synchronously |
| unsynchronousness | un- + synchronousness |
| unsynonymously | un- + synonymously |
| unsynthetically | un- + synthetically |
| unsyntheticness | un- + syntheticness |
| unsystematising | un- + systematising |
| unsystematizedly | un- + systematizedly |
| untabulable | un- + tabulable |
| untaciturnity | un- + taciturnity |
| untaciturnly | un- + taciturnly |
| untactical | un- + tactical |
| untactically | un- + tactically |
| untactual | un- + tactual |
| untactually | un- + tactually |
| untailorly | un- + tailorly |
| untakableness | un- + takableness |
| untakeableness | un- + takeableness |
| untamely | un- + tamely, not the hint's untimely |
| untangental | un- + tangental |
| untangentally | un- + tangentally |
| untangentially | un- + tangentially |
| untantalised | un- + tantalised |
| untantalising | un- + tantalising |
| untarnishedness | un- + tarnishedness |
| untarnishing | un- + tarnishing |
| untartarized | un- + tartarized, not treated with tartar |
| untastily | un- + tastily |
| untaunting | un- + taunting |
| untauntingly | un- + tauntingly |
| untautly | un- + tautly |
| untautness | un- + tautness |
| untautologically | un- + tautologically |
| untaxied | un- + taxied, not having taxied |
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