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Marold Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Inapparent vs. unapparent

inapparent
unapparent

What prefix is correct in usage? Are not these prefixes used differently in terms of a other variety of English? BrE or AmE?

Thanks in advance.
  

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Marold What prefix is correct in usage? According to dictionaries, they're both words. I'm not sure which one I would use.

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  • Marold What prefix is correct in usage?
  • According to dictionaries, they're both words.
  • I'm not sure which one I would use.
  • In fact, I can't imagine when I would need to use either one of them.
  • Marold Are not these prefixes not used differently in terms of a other variety of English?
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MaroldWhat prefix is correct in usage?
According to dictionaries, they're both words. I'm not sure which one I would use. In fact, I can't imagine when I would need to use either one of them.
MaroldAre not these prefixes not used differently in terms of a other variety of English? BrE or AmE?
I don't think
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Thank you very much Aspara Gus.

I am forced to concede there might be difficulties to come up with any reasonable sentence (or rather, natural one) with this word. But the thing is that I needed to know the correct prefix for CAE (Word formation) which I've been preparing for.
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Inapparent is used in medical contexts (e.g. an inapparent infection is an infection without clinical symptoms)
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This forum helped me greatly! I was confused why my word processor was insisting that, "unapparent" was not a word. Here is a viable (and natural) sentence for the word: "As I began talking to this man, the tone of the conversation changed and it became unapparent who was “helping” who in this situation."
Thanks!
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