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 |
|---|---|
| overcrown | over- + crown |
| overcry | over- + cry, to cry down |
| overcunningness | over- + cunningness |
| overcurrency | over- + currency |
| overcustom | over- + custom |
| overdaintiness | over- + daintiness |
| overdamn | over- + damn |
| overdance | over- + dance |
| overdazed | over- + dazed |
| overdearness | over- + dearness |
| overdebate | over- + debate |
| overdebated | over- + debated |
| overdebating | over- + debating |
| overdebilitate | over- + debilitate |
| overdebilitated | over- + debilitated |
| overdebilitating | over- + debilitating |
| overdecadence | over- + decadence |
| overdecadent | over- + decadent |
| overdecadently | over- + decadently |
| overdecoratively | over- + decoratively |
| overdecorativeness | over- + decorativeness |
| overdedicate | over- + dedicate |
| overdedicated | over- + dedicated |
| overdedicating | over- + dedicating |
| overdedication | over- + dedication |
| overdeeming | over- + deeming |
| overdefensively | over- + defensively |
| overdefensiveness | over- + defensiveness |
| overdeferential | over- + deferential |
| overdeferentially | over- + deferentially |
| overdefiant | over- + defiant |
| overdefiantly | over- + defiantly |
| overdefiantness | over- + defiantness |
| overdeliberated | over- + deliberated |
| overdeliberately | over- + deliberately |
| overdeliberateness | over- + deliberateness |
| overdeliberating | over- + deliberating |
| overdelicateness | over- + delicateness |
| overdeliciously | over- + deliciously |
| overdeliciousness | over- + deliciousness |
| overdelightedly | over- + delightedly |
| overdemandingly | over- + demandingly |
| overdemandingness | over- + demandingness |
| overdemonstrative | over- + demonstrative |
| overden | over- + den, a den above |
| overdenunciation | over- + denunciation |
| overdepressively | over- + depressively |
| overdepressiveness | over- + depressiveness |
| overderide | over- + deride |
| overderided | over- + derided |
| overderiding | over- + deriding |
| overderisive | over- + derisive |
| overderisively | over- + derisively |
| overderisiveness | over- + derisiveness |
| overdescant | over- + descant |
| overdescriptively | over- + descriptively |
| overdescriptiveness | over- + descriptiveness |
| overdesire | over- + desire |
| overdesirously | over- + desirously |
| overdesirousness | over- + desirousness |
| overdestructively | over- + destructively |
| overdevotedly | over- + devotedly |
| overdevotedness | over- + devotedness |
| overdevout | over- + devout |
| overdevoutness | over- + devoutness |
| overdiffused | over- + diffused |
| overdiffusely | over- + diffusely |
| overdiffuseness | over- + diffuseness |
| overdiffusing | over- + diffusing |
| overdiffusingly | over- + diffusingly |
| overdiffusingness | over- + diffusingness |
| overdiffusion | over- + diffusion |
| overdigest | over- + digest |
| overdignifiedly | over- + dignifiedly |
| overdignifiedness | over- + dignifiedness |
| overdignity | over- + dignity |
| overdilate | over- + dilate |
| overdilated | over- + dilated |
| overdilating | over- + dilating |
| overdiligentness | over- + diligentness |
| overdiscouragement | over- + discouragement |
| overdiscreet | over- + discreet |
| overdiscreetly | over- + discreetly |
| overdiscreetness | over- + discreetness |
| overdiscriminating | over- + discriminating |
| overdiscriminatingly | over- + discriminatingly |
| overdiscrimination | over- + discrimination |
| overdistance | over- + distance |
| overdistantly | over- + distantly |
| overdistantness | over- + distantness |
| overdistempered | over- + distempered |
| overdistend | over- + distend |
| overdistort | over- + distort |
| overdistortion | over- + distortion |
| overdistrait | over- + distrait |
| overdistraught | over- + distraught |
| overdiversely | over- + diversely |
| overdiverseness | over- + diverseness |
| overdoctrinaire | over- + doctrinaire |
| overdoctrinize | over- + doctrinize |
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