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 Β· sorted A to Z Β· 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 |
|---|---|
| overnoveled | over- + noveled |
| overnumerously | over- + numerously |
| overobediently | over- + obediently |
| overobesely | over- + obesely |
| overobeseness | over- + obeseness |
| overobesity | over- + obesity |
| overobject | over- + object |
| overoblige | over- + oblige |
| overobsequiously | over- + obsequiously |
| overoffend | over- + offend |
| overoffensively | over- + offensively |
| overoffensiveness | over- + offensiveness |
| overofficiously | over- + officiously |
| overofficiousness | over- + officiousness |
| overornamental | over- + ornamental |
| overornamentality | over- + ornamentality |
| overornamentally | over- + ornamentally |
| overornamentation | over- + ornamentation |
| overoxidization | over- + oxidization |
| overoxidize | over- + oxidize |
| overoxidizing | over- + oxidizing |
| overpained | over- + pained |
| overpainfully | over- + painfully |
| overpainfulness | over- + painfulness |
| overpartially | over- + partially |
| overpartialness | over- + partialness |
| overparticularness | over- + particularness |
| overparty | over- + party |
| overpassionateness | over- + passionateness |
| overpatriotically | over- + patriotically |
| overpending | over- + pending |
| overpensively | over- + pensively |
| overpensiveness | over- + pensiveness |
| overperemptorily | over- + peremptorily |
| overperemptoriness | over- + peremptoriness |
| overpersecute | over- + persecute |
| overpersecuted | over- + persecuted |
| overpersecuting | over- + persecuting |
| overpessimistically | over- + pessimistically |
| overphilosophize | over- + philosophize |
| overphilosophized | over- + philosophized |
| overphilosophizing | over- + philosophizing |
| overphysic | over- + physic, to overdose with medicine |
| overpick | over- + pick |
| overpictorialize | over- + pictorialize |
| overpictorialized | over- + pictorialized |
| overpictorializing | over- + pictorializing |
| overpinching | over- + pinching |
| overpiousness | over- + piousness |
| overpiteous | over- + piteous |
| overpiteously | over- + piteously |
| overpiteousness | over- + piteousness |
| overplainly | over- + plainly |
| overplainness | over- + plainness |
| overplausibleness | over- + plausibleness |
| overplausibly | over- + plausibly |
| overplenteously | over- + plenteously |
| overplenteousness | over- + plenteousness |
| overplentifully | over- + plentifully |
| overplentifulness | over- + plentifulness |
| overplenty | over- + plenty |
| overplumb | over- + plumb |
| overplume | over- + plume |
| overpoeticize | over- + poeticize |
| overpoeticized | over- + poeticized |
| overpoeticizing | over- + poeticizing |
| overpolemically | over- + polemically |
| overpolemicalness | over- + polemicalness |
| overpolitic | over- + politic |
| overpolitical | over- + political |
| overpolitically | over- + politically |
| overpollinate | over- + pollinate |
| overpollinated | over- + pollinated |
| overpollinating | over- + pollinating |
| overponderously | over- + ponderously |
| overponderousness | over- + ponderousness |
| overpopularly | over- + popularly |
| overpopulously | over- + populously |
| overpositively | over- + positively |
| overpositiveness | over- + positiveness |
| overpossess | over- + possess |
| overpotency | over- + potency |
| overpotently | over- + potently |
| overpotentness | over- + potentness |
| overpowerfully | over- + powerfully |
| overpowerfulness | over- + powerfulness |
| overpractice | over- + practice |
| overpracticed | over- + practiced |
| overpracticing | over- + practicing |
| overpray | over- + pray |
| overpreface | over- + preface |
| overpregnant | over- + pregnant |
| overpreoccupy | over- + preoccupy |
| overpreoccupying | over- + preoccupying |
| overpresumptive | over- + presumptive |
| overpresumptively | over- + presumptively |
| overpresumptiveness | over- + presumptiveness |
| overpresumptuously | over- + presumptuously |
| overpresumptuousness | over- + presumptuousness |
| overprick | over- + prick |
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