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 |
|---|---|
| overbulkily | over- + bulkily |
| overbulkiness | over- + bulkiness |
| overbumptiously | over- + bumptiously |
| overbumptiousness | over- + bumptiousness |
| overburningly | over- + burningly |
| overbusiness | over- + business, older spelling of busyness |
| overbusyness | over- + busyness |
| overcap | over- + cap, to cap over |
| overcapability | over- + capability |
| overcapably | over- + capably |
| overcape | over- + cape, to cover with a cape |
| overcaptiously | over- + captiously |
| overcaptiousness | over- + captiousness |
| overcasualness | over- + casualness |
| overcasuistical | over- + casuistical |
| overcaustic | over- + caustic |
| overcaustically | over- + caustically |
| overcausticity | over- + causticity |
| overcensor | over- + censor |
| overcensorious | over- + censorious |
| overcensoriously | over- + censoriously |
| overcensoriousness | over- + censoriousness |
| overchafe | over- + chafe |
| overchafed | over- + chafed |
| overchafing | over- + chafing |
| overchannel | over- + channel |
| overchant | over- + chant |
| overchargement | overcharge + -ment |
| overcharitableness | over- + charitableness |
| overcharity | over- + charity |
| overchase | over- + chase |
| overchased | over- + chased |
| overchasing | over- + chasing |
| overcheap | over- + cheap |
| overchidden | over- + chidden, pp. of overchide |
| overchildishly | over- + childishly |
| overchildishness | over- + childishness |
| overchoke | over- + choke |
| overchrome | over- + chrome, to chrome excessively |
| overchurch | over- + church |
| overcirculate | over- + circulate |
| overcircumspection | over- + circumspection |
| overcivilly | over- + civilly |
| overclamor | over- + clamor |
| overcleanness | over- + cleanness |
| overcleave | over- + cleave |
| overclemency | over- + clemency |
| overclement | over- + clement |
| overcleverly | over- + cleverly |
| overclinical | over- + clinical |
| overclinically | over- + clinically |
| overclinicalness | over- + clinicalness |
| overclog | over- + clog |
| overclogged | over- + clogged |
| overclogging | over- + clogging |
| overcluster | over- + cluster |
| overcoldly | over- + coldly |
| overcoloration | over- + coloration |
| overcommand | over- + command |
| overcommendation | over- + commendation |
| overcommonly | over- + commonly |
| overcommonness | over- + commonness |
| overcommunicative | over- + communicative |
| overcompetitively | over- + competitively |
| overcomplacence | over- + complacence |
| overcompound | over- + compound |
| overconfute | over- + confute |
| overconquer | over- + conquer |
| overconscientiously | over- + conscientiously |
| overconservativeness | over- + conservativeness |
| overconsiderately | over- + considerately |
| overconsiderateness | over- + considerateness |
| overconstant | over- + constant |
| overconstantly | over- + constantly |
| overconstantness | over- + constantness |
| overcontentedly | over- + contentedly |
| overcontentedness | over- + contentedness |
| overcontentious | over- + contentious |
| overcontentiously | over- + contentiously |
| overcontentiousness | over- + contentiousness |
| overcontrite | over- + contrite |
| overcontritely | over- + contritely |
| overcontriteness | over- + contriteness |
| overcoolly | over- + coolly |
| overcoolness | over- + coolness |
| overcopiousness | over- + copiousness |
| overcorned | over- + corned, oversalted or tipsy |
| overcorrupt | over- + corrupt |
| overcorruption | over- + corruption |
| overcorruptly | over- + corruptly |
| overcostliness | over- + costliness |
| overcourteously | over- + courteously |
| overcourteousness | over- + courteousness |
| overcovetously | over- + covetously |
| overcovetousness | over- + covetousness |
| overcow | over- + cow, to cow utterly |
| overcoyly | over- + coyly |
| overcredit | over- + credit |
| overcredulousness | over- + credulousness |
| overcreed | over- + creed |
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