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 |
|---|---|
| antidomestically | anti- + domestically |
| antidominican | anti- + Dominican |
| antiduke | anti- + duke |
| antidynamic | anti- + dynamic |
| antidynastical | anti- + dynastical |
| antidynastically | anti- + dynastically |
| antidynasty | anti- + dynasty |
| antiecclesiastically | anti- + ecclesiastically |
| antiecclesiasticism | anti- + ecclesiasticism |
| antieducationalist | anti- + educationalist |
| antieducationally | anti- + educationally |
| antieducationist | anti- + educationist |
| antiegoism | anti- + egoism |
| antiegoist | anti- + egoist |
| antiegoistic | anti- + egoistic |
| antiegoistical | anti- + egoistical |
| antiegoistically | anti- + egoistically |
| antiegotism | anti- + egotism |
| antiegotist | anti- + egotist |
| antiegotistic | anti- + egotistic |
| antiegotistical | anti- + egotistical |
| antiegotistically | anti- + egotistically |
| antiejaculation | anti- + ejaculation |
| antiempiric | anti- + empiric |
| antiempirically | anti- + empirically |
| antienergistic | anti- + energistic |
| antienthusiasm | anti- + enthusiasm |
| antienthusiast | anti- + enthusiast |
| antienthusiastically | anti- + enthusiastically |
| antiepiscopist | anti- + episcop- + -ist, foe of episcopacy |
| antierosive | anti- + erosive |
| antievolutional | anti- + evolutional |
| antievolutionally | anti- + evolutionally |
| antievolutionistic | anti- + evolutionistic |
| antiexpressionism | anti- + expressionism |
| antiexpressionistic | anti- + expressionistic |
| antiexpressively | anti- + expressively |
| antiexpressiveness | anti- + expressiveness |
| antieyestrain | anti- + eyestrain |
| antifelon | anti- + felon |
| antifelony | anti- + felony |
| antifeudalistic | anti- + feudalistic |
| antifeudalization | anti- + feudalization |
| antiflattering | anti- + flattering |
| antiflux | anti- + flux |
| antighostism | anti- + ghostism |
| antigigmanic | anti- + gigmanic (Carlyle's gigman) |
| antignostical | anti- + gnostical |
| antigovernmentally | anti- + governmentally |
| antigrammatically | anti- + grammatically |
| antigrammaticalness | anti- + grammaticalness |
| antigravitationally | anti- + gravitationally |
| antiguggler | anti- + guggler; tube to stop a cask gurgling |
| antigyrous | anti- + gyrous, turned the reverse way |
| antiharmonist | anti- + harmonist |
| antihemisphere | anti- + hemisphere |
| antihierarchal | anti- + hierarchal |
| antihierarchic | anti- + hierarchic |
| antihierarchically | anti- + hierarchically |
| antihierarchies | anti- + hierarchies |
| antihierarchism | anti- + hierarchism |
| antihumbuggist | anti- + humbug + -ist |
| antihygienically | anti- + hygienically |
| antihylist | anti- + hylist, opponent of materialism |
| antihypnotically | anti- + hypnotically |
| antihypochondriac | anti- + hypochondriac |
| antiinsurrectionally | anti- + insurrectionally |
| antiinsurrectionists | anti- + insurrectionists |
| antilaborist | anti- + laborist |
| antilacrosse | anti- + lacrosse |
| antilacrosser | anti- + lacrosser |
| antilegalist | anti- + legalist |
| antilens | anti- + lens (as in antilens serum) |
| antiliberalist | anti- + liberalist |
| antiliberalistic | anti- + liberalistic |
| antiliberally | anti- + liberally |
| antiliberalness | anti- + liberalness |
| antilift | anti- + lift |
| antiliturgic | anti- + liturgic |
| antiliturgically | anti- + liturgically |
| antiliturgy | anti- + liturgy |
| antimachination | anti- + machination |
| antimaniac | anti- + maniac |
| antimaniacal | anti- + maniacal |
| antimarian | anti- + Marian, opposing the cult of Mary |
| antimark | anti- + mark |
| antimasquerade | anti- + masquerade |
| antimaterialistically | anti- + materialistically |
| antimechanistically | anti- + mechanistically |
| antimediaevalism | anti- + mediaevalism |
| antimediaevalist | anti- + mediaevalist |
| antimediaevally | anti- + mediaevally |
| antimedically | anti- + medically |
| antimedication | anti- + medication |
| antimedicative | anti- + medicative |
| antimedievalism | anti- + medievalism |
| antimedievalist | anti- + medievalist |
| antimedievally | anti- + medievally |
| antimerging | anti- + merging |
| antimetathetic | anti- + metathetic |
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