{"id":741,"date":"2017-03-20T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2019-03-07T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:06:12","slug":"words-that-arent-opposites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/741","title":{"rendered":"Words with dundant or fluous fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words that aren&#8217;t opposites<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>real \u2014 unreal<\/li>\n<li>canny \u2014 uncanny<\/li>\n<li>valuable \u2014 invaluable<\/li>\n<li>credulous \u2014 incredulous<\/li>\n<li>fact \u2014 fiction (this is actually a deep one. Roots of both are in proto-indo-european words for &#8220;to make&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>mure \u2014 demure<\/li>\n<li>vert \u2014 invert <\/li>\n<li>aging \u2014 imaging<\/li>\n<li>pact \u2014 impact<\/li>\n<li>mediate \u2014 immediate<\/li>\n<li>predate \u2014 postdate<\/li>\n<li>toward \u2014 untoward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prefixed words that aren&#8217;t words and don&#8217;t have prefixes. Some of these are words that aren&#8217;t opposites because one of them isn&#8217;t a word.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ert \u2014 inert<\/li>\n<li>molish \u2014 demolish<\/li>\n<li>venient \u2014 convenient<\/li>\n<li>dundant \u2014 redundant<\/li>\n<li>fluous \u2014 superfluous<\/li>\n<li>becile \u2014 imbecile<\/li>\n<li>agining \u2014 imagining<\/li>\n<li>plicate \u2014 replicate<\/li>\n<li>gruntled \u2014 disgruntled<\/li>\n<li>sidious \u2014 insidious<\/li>\n<li>whelmed \u2014 overwhelmed<\/li>\n<li>rageous \u2014 outrageous<\/li>\n<li>cursion \u2014 recursion<\/li>\n<li>imburse \u2014 reimburse<\/li>\n<li>burse \u2014 reimburse<\/li>\n<li>fluous \u2014 superfluous<\/li>\n<li>cilious \u2014 supercilious<\/li>\n<li>quited \u2014 requited<\/li>\n<li>quited \u2014 unrequited<\/li>\n<li>vagant \u2014 extravagant<\/li>\n<li>bol\u00e9 \u2014 hyperbole<\/li>\n<li>bolic \u2014 hyperbolic<\/li>\n<li>luctant \u2014 reluctant<\/li>\n<li>hap \u2014 mishap<\/li>\n<li>pugnant \u2014 repugnant<\/li>\n<li>dolent \u2014 redolent<\/li>\n<li>eptitude \u2014 ineptitude<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, words with redundant prefixes, and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reiterate \u2014 iterate<\/li>\n<li>concatenate \u2014 catenate<\/li>\n<li>intercatenate \u2014 catenate<\/li>\n<li>encompass \u2014 compass<\/li>\n<li>eminant \u2014 preeminant<\/li>\n<li>perception \u2014 apperception<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other fixed words whose meanings don&#8217;t correspond to those of their bases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>irrespective<\/li>\n<li>consummate<\/li>\n<li>insure<\/li>\n<li>ensure<\/li>\n<li>fulsome<\/li>\n<li>remiss<\/li>\n<li>relax<\/li>\n<li>reply<\/li>\n<li>reflux<\/li>\n<li>reflex<\/li>\n<li>convent<\/li>\n<li>effable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This post was formerly &#8220;Words that aren&#8217;t opposites,&#8221; but it&#8217;s bigger now. Obviously, there&#8217;s room for more.<\/p>\n<p>See also, <a href=\"http:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/archives\/224\" title=\"Islands that don\u2019t exist\">islands that don&#8217;t exist<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_fictional_guidebooks\">list of fictional guidebooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words that aren&#8217;t opposites real \u2014 unreal canny \u2014 uncanny valuable \u2014 invaluable credulous \u2014 incredulous fact \u2014 fiction (this is actually a deep one. Roots of both are in proto-indo-european words for &#8220;to make&#8221;) mure \u2014 demure vert \u2014 invert aging \u2014 imaging pact \u2014 impact mediate \u2014 immediate predate \u2014 postdate toward \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Words with dundant or fluous fixes<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}