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Words Beginning With “un”

Below is a list of words beginning with un for example unfair. And in the words given below the prefix un changes the original word to not or to the opposite of the word’s original meaning. For example: fair means to be reasonable and free of personal interests, whereas unfair means not to be reasonable and not to be free of personal interests. Ok I hope I have made that clear enough to understand.

Unfortunately there are a lot of words that fall into this catagory (the prefix un changing the original word to not or to the opposite) so what I have done is made a list of the ones I hear used in everyday conversation, about 410 in total. I accept that this is not necessarily the way it should be done. But having being forced to teach endless word lists that I knew students were unlikely to ever use has made me want to change the way students learn new words. However there is a longer list of words prefixed with un on this site for students that wish to use it. 

I believe that learning words prefixed with un is a good thing in that students can learn two words and two meanings from just one original word. For example: acceptable and unacceptable are two words and they have two meanings but they are both linked by the meaning of the word acceptable.

You will notice that some words are marked in blue and I have marked them in this way to highlight words I rarely or never hear spoken in everyday conversation. For example I hear the word unshakable being used but I cannot recall anyone ever using the word shakable.

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