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 |
|---|---|
| overabstemiousness | over- + abstemiousness |
| overabusive | over- + abusive |
| overabusively | over- + abusively |
| overabusiveness | over- + abusiveness |
| overaccurately | over- + accurately |
| overacidity | over- + acidity |
| overacute | over- + acute |
| overacutely | over- + acutely |
| overacuteness | over- + acuteness |
| overadvance | over- + advance |
| overadvanced | over- + advanced |
| overadvancing | over- + advancing |
| overadvice | over- + advice |
| overaffirm | over- + affirm |
| overaffirmation | over- + affirmation |
| overaffirmative | over- + affirmative |
| overaffirmatively | over- + affirmatively |
| overaffirmativeness | over- + affirmativeness |
| overafflict | over- + afflict |
| overaffliction | over- + affliction |
| overalcoholize | over- + alcoholize |
| overalcoholized | over- + alcoholized |
| overalcoholizing | over- + alcoholizing |
| overallegiance | over- + allegiance |
| overallegorize | over- + allegorize |
| overallegorized | over- + allegorized |
| overallegorizing | over- + allegorizing |
| overambitioned | over- + ambitioned |
| overambling | over- + ambling |
| overangry | over- + angry |
| overanimatedly | over- + animatedly |
| overanimation | over- + animation |
| overanswer | over- + answer |
| overappareled | over- + appareled |
| overapplaud | over- + applaud |
| overappreciation | over- + appreciation |
| overappreciative | over- + appreciative |
| overappreciatively | over- + appreciatively |
| overappreciativeness | over- + appreciativeness |
| overapprehended | over- + apprehended |
| overapprehension | over- + apprehension |
| overapprehensively | over- + apprehensively |
| overapprehensiveness | over- + apprehensiveness |
| overaptly | over- + aptly |
| overaptness | over- + aptness |
| overargumentatively | over- + argumentatively |
| overargumentativeness | over- + argumentativeness |
| overartificially | over- + artificially |
| overassail | over- + assail |
| overassume | over- + assume |
| overassumed | over- + assumed |
| overassuming | over- + assuming |
| overassumption | over- + assumption |
| overassumptive | over- + assumptive |
| overassumptively | over- + assumptively |
| overassuredly | over- + assuredly |
| overassuredness | over- + assuredness |
| overattenuate | over- + attenuate |
| overattenuating | over- + attenuating |
| overbade | over- + bade, past of overbid |
| overbalm | over- + balm |
| overbandy | over- + bandy |
| overbarish | over- + barish, somewhat too bare |
| overbark | over- + bark |
| overbarrenness | over- + barrenness |
| overbase | over- + base, too base |
| overbaseness | over- + baseness |
| overbashfully | over- + bashfully |
| overbepatched | over- + bepatched |
| overbillow | over- + billow |
| overblack | over- + black |
| overblanch | over- + blanch |
| overblaze | over- + blaze |
| overblessed | over- + blessed |
| overblessedness | over- + blessedness |
| overblindly | over- + blindly |
| overboastfully | over- + boastfully |
| overboastfulness | over- + boastfulness |
| overboding | over- + boding |
| overbookishly | over- + bookishly |
| overbookishness | over- + bookishness |
| overbounteously | over- + bounteously |
| overbounteousness | over- + bounteousness |
| overbraced | over- + braced |
| overbracing | over- + bracing |
| overbrag | over- + brag |
| overbragged | over- + bragged |
| overbragging | over- + bragging |
| overbranch | over- + branch |
| overbravado | over- + bravado |
| overbraveness | over- + braveness |
| overbray | over- + bray |
| overbreakage | over- + breakage |
| overbrutalities | over- + brutalities |
| overbrutality | over- + brutality |
| overbrutalization | over- + brutalization |
| overbrutalize | over- + brutalize |
| overbrutalized | over- + brutalized |
| overbrutalizing | over- + brutalizing |
| overbrutally | over- + brutally |
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