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 |
|---|---|
| overpride | over- + pride |
| overprizer | over- + prizer, one who overprizes |
| overproficiency | over- + proficiency |
| overproficiently | over- + proficiently |
| overprofusion | over- + profusion |
| overprolifically | over- + prolifically |
| overprolificness | over- + prolificness |
| overprolixity | over- + prolixity |
| overprolixly | over- + prolixly |
| overprolixness | over- + prolixness |
| overprominentness | over- + prominentness |
| overpromptness | over- + promptness |
| overproportionated | over- + proportionated |
| overprosperously | over- + prosperously |
| overprosperousness | over- + prosperousness |
| overprotract | over- + protract |
| overproudly | over- + proudly |
| overproudness | over- + proudness |
| overprovender | over- + provender, to overfeed |
| overprovide | over- + provide |
| overprovided | over- + provided |
| overprovidently | over- + providently |
| overprovidentness | over- + providentness |
| overproviding | over- + providing |
| overpuff | over- + puff |
| overpuissant | over- + puissant, too powerful |
| overpuissantly | over- + puissantly, too powerfully |
| overquarter | over- + quarter |
| overrapture | over- + rapture |
| overrapturize | over- + rapturize |
| overrationalization | over- + rationalization |
| overrationally | over- + rationally |
| overravish | over- + ravish |
| overrealistically | over- + realistically |
| overreduce | over- + reduce |
| overreducing | over- + reducing |
| overreflection | over- + reflection |
| overreflectively | over- + reflectively |
| overreflectiveness | over- + reflectiveness |
| overregiment | over- + regiment |
| overregimentation | over- + regimentation |
| overregister | over- + register |
| overregistration | over- + registration |
| overregularly | over- + regularly |
| overreligiosity | over- + religiosity |
| overreligiously | over- + religiously |
| overreligiousness | over- + religiousness |
| overremiss | over- + remiss |
| overremissly | over- + remissly |
| overremissness | over- + remissness |
| overrennet | over- + rennet, too much rennet in cheesemaking |
| overrepresentatively | over- + representatively |
| overrepresentativeness | over- + representativeness |
| overrepress | over- + repress |
| overreprimand | over- + reprimand |
| overreservedly | over- + reservedly |
| overreservedness | over- + reservedness |
| overresist | over- + resist |
| overresolutely | over- + resolutely |
| overresoluteness | over- + resoluteness |
| overrestraint | over- + restraint |
| overriches | over- + riches, excess of riches |
| overrichly | over- + richly |
| overrighteousness | over- + righteousness |
| overrigidness | over- + rigidness |
| overrigorousness | over- + rigorousness |
| overrim | over- + rim |
| overriot | over- + riot |
| overrooted | over- + rooted |
| overroyal | over- + royal |
| overrudely | over- + rudely |
| overrudeness | over- + rudeness |
| overrunningly | overrunning + -ly |
| overrush | over- + rush |
| overrusset | over- + russet |
| overrust | over- + rust |
| oversacrificial | over- + sacrificial |
| oversacrificially | over- + sacrificially |
| oversacrificialness | over- + sacrificialness |
| oversadly | over- + sadly |
| oversadness | over- + sadness |
| oversaliva | over- + saliva, excess of saliva |
| oversanguineness | over- + sanguineness |
| oversapless | over- + sapless |
| oversate | over- + sate |
| oversatiety | over- + satiety |
| oversating | over- + sating |
| oversauciness | over- + sauciness |
| overscatter | over- + scatter |
| oversceptically | over- + sceptically |
| overscepticalness | over- + scepticalness |
| overscour | over- + scour |
| overscratch | over- + scratch |
| overscream | over- + scream |
| overscrub | over- + scrub |
| overscrubbed | over- + scrubbed |
| overscrubbing | over- + scrubbing |
| overscruple | over- + scruple |
| overscrupled | over- + scrupled |
| overscrupling | over- + scrupling |
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