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 |
|---|---|
| antimethod | anti- + method |
| antimethodic | anti- + methodic |
| antimethodical | anti- + methodical |
| antimethodically | anti- + methodically |
| antimethodicalness | anti- + methodicalness |
| antimilitaristically | anti- + militaristically |
| antiministerially | anti- + ministerially |
| antimodernistic | anti- + modernistic |
| antimodernly | anti- + modernly |
| antimodernness | anti- + modernness |
| antimonarch | anti- + monarch |
| antimonarchally | anti- + monarchally |
| antimonarchistic | anti- + monarchistic |
| antimonopolization | anti- + monopolization |
| antimusically | anti- + musically |
| antimusicalness | anti- + musicalness |
| antimystic | anti- + mystic |
| antimystical | anti- + mystical |
| antimystically | anti- + mystically |
| antimysticalness | anti- + mysticalness |
| antimysticism | anti- + mysticism |
| antinationalistically | anti- + nationalistically |
| antinationally | anti- + nationally |
| antinaturally | anti- + naturally |
| antinaturalness | anti- + naturalness |
| antineologian | anti- + neologian |
| antinepotic | anti- + nepotic |
| antineutralism | anti- + neutralism |
| antineutrally | anti- + neutrally |
| antinormalness | anti- + normalness |
| antiopiumite | anti- + opium + -ite, foe of the opium trade |
| antioptimism | anti- + optimism |
| antioptimistic | anti- + optimistic |
| antioptimistical | anti- + optimistical |
| antioptimistically | anti- + optimistically |
| antiorthodoxly | anti- + orthodoxly |
| antiorthodoxy | anti- + orthodoxy |
| antioxygenating | anti- + oxygenating |
| antioxygenator | anti- + oxygenator |
| antipacifistic | anti- + pacifistic |
| antiparalytical | anti- + paralytical |
| antiparasitically | anti- + parasitically |
| antiparliamental | anti- + parliamental |
| antiparliamenteer | anti- + parliament + -eer |
| antipart | anti- + part |
| antipass | anti- + pass |
| antipatriarch | anti- + patriarch |
| antipatriotically | anti- + patriotically |
| antipedal | anti- + pedal |
| antipestilence | anti- + pestilence |
| antipestilent | anti- + pestilent |
| antipestilently | anti- + pestilently |
| antipewism | anti- + pew + -ism, opposition to pew rents |
| antiphilosophically | anti- + philosophically |
| antiphilosophism | anti- + philosophism |
| antiphysic | anti- + physic |
| antiphysically | anti- + physically |
| antiphysicalness | anti- + physicalness |
| antiphysician | anti- + physician |
| antiplenist | anti- + plenist, denier of a plenum |
| antiplurality | anti- + plurality |
| antipoetically | anti- + poetically |
| antipolemist | anti- + polemist |
| antipopularization | anti- + popularization |
| antipopulism | anti- + populism |
| antiportable | anti- + portable |
| antiposition | anti- + position |
| antipragmatical | anti- + pragmatical |
| antipragmatically | anti- + pragmatically |
| antipragmaticism | anti- + pragmaticism |
| antipredeterminant | anti- + predeterminant |
| antiprelate | anti- + prelate |
| antiprelatic | anti- + prelatic |
| antiprelatism | anti- + prelatism |
| antiprelatist | anti- + prelatist |
| antiprestidigitation | anti- + prestidigitation |
| antipriesthood | anti- + priesthood |
| antiprimer | anti- + primer (device preventing priming) |
| antipriming | anti- + priming |
| antiproductionist | anti- + productionist |
| antiproductive | anti- + productive |
| antiproductively | anti- + productively |
| antiproductiveness | anti- + productiveness |
| antiproductivity | anti- + productivity |
| antipsalmist | anti- + psalmist |
| antiracer | anti- + racer |
| antiracially | anti- + racially |
| antiradiant | anti- + radiant |
| antiradiating | anti- + radiating |
| antiradically | anti- + radically |
| antirailwayist | anti- + railway + -ist |
| antirationally | anti- + rationally |
| antireacting | anti- + reacting |
| antireaction | anti- + reaction |
| antireactionaries | anti- + reactionaries |
| antireactionary | anti- + reactionary |
| antirealistically | anti- + realistically |
| antiredeposition | anti- + redeposition |
| antireducer | anti- + reducer |
| antireducing | anti- + reducing |
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