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 |
|---|---|
| unviolably | un- + violably |
| unviolate | un- + violate, inviolate |
| unviolative | un- + violative |
| unviolenced | un- + violenced, not done violence to |
| unviolently | un- + violently |
| unviolined | un- + violined, without violins |
| unvirulently | un- + virulently |
| unvisibleness | un- + visibleness |
| unvision | un- + vision, to deprive of sight |
| unvisiting | un- + visiting |
| unvistaed | un- + vistaed, without a vista |
| unvisualised | un- + visualised |
| unvisually | un- + visually |
| unvitalizing | un- + vitalizing |
| unvitally | un- + vitally |
| unvitalness | un- + vitalness |
| unvitiable | un- + vitiable |
| unvitiatedly | un- + vitiatedly |
| unvitiatedness | un- + vitiated + -ness |
| unvitiating | un- + vitiating |
| unvitreosity | un- + vitreosity |
| unvitreous | un- + vitreous |
| unvitreously | un- + vitreously |
| unvitreousness | un- + vitreousness |
| unvitrescent | un- + vitrescent |
| unvitrescibility | un- + vitrescibility |
| unvitriolized | un- + vitriolized |
| unvituperated | un- + vituperated |
| unvituperatively | un- + vituperatively |
| unvituperativeness | un- + vituperativeness |
| unvivaciously | un- + vivaciously |
| unvivaciousness | un- + vivaciousness |
| unvividly | un- + vividly |
| unvividness | un- + vividness |
| unvocable | un- + vocable, that cannot be uttered |
| unvociferously | un- + vociferously |
| unvociferousness | un- + vociferousness |
| unvoid | un- + void |
| unvoidness | un- + voidness |
| unvolatilised | un- + volatilised |
| unvolatilize | un- + volatilize |
| unvolcanically | un- + volcanically |
| unvolitive | un- + volitive |
| unvoluble | un- + voluble |
| unvolubleness | un- + volubleness |
| unvolubly | un- + volubly |
| unvolumed | un- + volumed |
| unvoluminously | un- + voluminously |
| unvoluminousness | un- + voluminousness |
| unvoluptuously | un- + voluptuously |
| unvoluptuousness | un- + voluptuousness |
| unvoraciously | un- + voraciously |
| unvoraciousness | un- + voraciousness |
| unvouchedly | un- + vouchedly |
| unvouchedness | un- + vouched + -ness |
| unvoyaging | un- + voyaging |
| unvulgarness | un- + vulgarness |
| unvulturine | un- + vulturine |
| unvulturous | un- + vulturous |
| unvying | un- + vying |
| unwaddling | un- + waddling |
| unwading | un- + wading |
| unwaggably | un- + waggably, immovably |
| unwailing | un- + wailing |
| unwaiting | un- + waiting |
| unwaived | un- + waived |
| unwakefully | un- + wakefully |
| unwallowed | un- + wallowed |
| unwanderingly | un- + wanderingly |
| unwaned | un- + waned |
| unwareness | un- + wareness (ware, aware), unawareness |
| unwarn | un- + warn, to recall a warning |
| unwarnedness | un- + warned + -ness |
| unwarnished | un- + warnished (warnish, obsolete: to warn) |
| unwarrant | un- + warrant |
| unwarrayed | un- + warrayed (warray, obsolete: to war on) |
| unwarred | un- + warred |
| unwarren | un- + warren |
| unwassailing | un- + wassailing |
| unwastefulness | un- + wastefulness |
| unwastingly | un- + wastingly |
| unweaken | un- + weaken |
| unweakening | un- + weakening |
| unwealsomeness | un- + wealsome (obsolete: beneficial) + -ness |
| unweapon | un- + weapon, to disarm |
| unweariability | un- + weariability |
| unweddedly | un- + weddedly |
| unweened | un- + weened (ween, to suppose) |
| unweft | un- + weft, not woven in |
| unweighability | un- + weighability |
| unweighableness | un- + weighableness |
| unwheedled | un- + wheedled |
| unwhiglike | un- + Whiglike |
| unwhimpering | un- + whimpering |
| unwhimperingly | un- + whimperingly |
| unwhimsicalness | un- + whimsicalness |
| unwhiningly | un- + whiningly |
| unwickedly | un- + wickedly |
| unwildly | un- + wildly |
| unwildness | un- + wildness |
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