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Avid learner Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Words that unlisted in dictionaries

Hi,

I wonder why there are words that sound right but they are unlisted in dictionaries & spell chekers.
Examples:
  1. He is vexedly waiting for her in the car.
  2. Oh sorry dearie, I wasn’t seeing you there.
  3. I am not an insomniac, I am a nyctophobe.
  4. After their ruse is exposed, the company’s stocks are now officially unvaluable.
  5. The love they share remains unextinguished despite everything the world has thrown at them.
  6. The rough sea is simply untraversable.
  7. In medieval Europe, the dignities of Kings were unopposable.
  8. She declares pridefully, “This is my son, my true and only heir.”
  9. How can an emptiness fill the unslakable thirsts in the souls of many?
  10. The Great Dehumanizer has been humanizing the world according to his vision since the dawn of time.
  11. You should manage the matters of your heart uncallously, yet not credulously.
  12. He is the negator of past errors.
  13. Legend has it, that they are only permitted to meet every last day of the months’ dawnings and gloamings.
  14. Meow is the only hearable word in the ears of the uncaring world.
Are the underlined & embolden words above actual words?
Thanks, AL
  

Top answer

Words come into the language every day, and words disappear from it. Some have short lives, some long. There are tens of thousands of potential words that never reach the mind of a speaker/writer; as many more do, but never leave it.

— Fivejedjon

  • Words come into the language every day, and words disappear from it.
  • Some have short lives, some long.
  • There are tens of thousands of potential words that never reach the mind of a speaker/writer; as many more do, but never leave it.
  • Why some are widely used and others not is frequently a matter of chance.
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Words come into the language every day, and words disappear from it. Some have short lives, some long. There are tens of thousands of potential words that never reach the mind of a speaker/writer; as many more do, but never leave it. Why some are widely used and others not is frequently a matter of chance.

Most of the words you list have been used at some time or another, and appear in
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avid learner unlisted in dictionaries
I found many of these in dictionaries with little difficulty.

Because "un-", "-able", "-er"/"-or" and "-ly" words can be prolifically created, and the meanings are usually obvious if the base word is known, dictionaries may not list every single possibility that has ever been used.
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GPYBecause "un-", "-able", "-er"/"-or" and "-ly" words can be prolifically created, and the meanings are usually obvious if the base word is known, dictionaries may not list every single possibility that has ever been used.
The stupid thing is, ms word's spell-checker rejects them all.
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