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 |
|---|---|
| overdogmatical | over- + dogmatical |
| overdogmaticalness | over- + dogmaticalness |
| overdome | over- + dome, to dome over |
| overdoubt | over- + doubt |
| overdoze | over- + doze |
| overdozed | over- + dozed |
| overdozing | over- + dozing |
| overdredge | over- + dredge |
| overdredged | over- + dredged |
| overdredging | over- + dredging |
| overdrily | over- + drily |
| overdriness | over- + driness, older spelling of dryness |
| overdrip | over- + drip |
| overdroop | over- + droop |
| overdrowsed | over- + drowsed |
| overdure | over- + dure |
| overdyer | over- + dyer |
| overearly | over- + early |
| overeditorialize | over- + editorialize |
| overeditorialized | over- + editorialized |
| overeditorializing | over- + editorializing |
| overeducative | over- + educative |
| overeducatively | over- + educatively |
| overeffort | over- + effort |
| overelate | over- + elate |
| overelated | over- + elated |
| overelating | over- + elating |
| overelegancy | over- + elegancy |
| overelegantness | over- + elegantness |
| overelliptically | over- + elliptically |
| overemotionalness | over- + emotionalness |
| overemphatical | over- + emphatical |
| overemphaticalness | over- + emphaticalness |
| overemphaticness | over- + emphaticness |
| overempired | over- + empired |
| overempirical | over- + empirical |
| overempirically | over- + empirically |
| overemptiness | over- + emptiness |
| overemulate | over- + emulate |
| overemulated | over- + emulated |
| overemulating | over- + emulating |
| overemulation | over- + emulation |
| overenter | over- + enter |
| overentreat | over- + entreat |
| overentry | over- + entry |
| overenvious | over- + envious |
| overenviously | over- + enviously |
| overenviousness | over- + enviousness |
| overequal | over- + equal |
| overexacting | over- + exacting |
| overexertedly | over- + exertedly |
| overexertedness | over- + exertedness |
| overexpansively | over- + expansively |
| overexpansiveness | over- + expansiveness |
| overexpectantness | over- + expectantness |
| overexpend | over- + expend |
| overexpert | over- + expert |
| overexpressive | over- + expressive |
| overexpressively | over- + expressively |
| overexpressiveness | over- + expressiveness |
| overexuberantness | over- + exuberantness |
| overeyebrowed | over- + eyebrowed |
| overfacilely | over- + facilely |
| overfacility | over- + facility |
| overfactious | over- + factious |
| overfactiously | over- + factiously |
| overfactiousness | over- + factiousness |
| overfactitious | over- + factitious |
| overfag | over- + fag |
| overfagged | over- + fagged |
| overfagging | over- + fagging |
| overfaintly | over- + faintly |
| overfaintness | over- + faintness |
| overfaith | over- + faith |
| overfaithfulness | over- + faithfulness |
| overfamed | over- + famed |
| overfancifully | over- + fancifully |
| overfancifulness | over- + fancifulness |
| overfault | over- + fault |
| overfavorable | over- + favorable |
| overfavorableness | over- + favorableness |
| overfavorably | over- + favorably |
| overfearfully | over- + fearfully |
| overfeast | over- + feast |
| overfee | over- + fee |
| overfellowlike | over- + fellowlike |
| overfellowly | over- + fellowly |
| overfelon | over- + felon |
| overfemininely | over- + femininely |
| overfemininity | over- + femininity |
| overfervent | over- + fervent |
| overfervently | over- + fervently |
| overferventness | over- + ferventness |
| overfestoon | over- + festoon |
| overfiercely | over- + fiercely |
| overfierceness | over- + fierceness |
| overfile | over- + file |
| overfilm | over- + film |
| overflap | over- + flap |
| overflat | over- + flat |
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