Vestigial Positives
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Positive |
Definition |
Confirmed ? |
Negative |
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Advertent |
attentive, heedful |
yes |
Inadvertent |
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Alienable |
separable |
yes |
Inalienable |
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Ane |
intelligent, sensible |
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Inane |
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Appointed |
pleased, satisfied |
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Disappointed |
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Cessant |
ending, dormant |
yes |
Incessant |
|
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Clement |
clear, pleasant, mild |
yes |
Inclement |
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Cordant |
agreeable, harmonious |
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Discordant |
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Continent |
restrained |
yes |
Incontinent |
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Corrigible |
restrained, correctable |
yes |
Incorrigible |
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Creant |
creative, formative |
yes |
Miscreant |
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Crepant |
agreeable |
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Discrepant |
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Determinate |
certain, clear |
yes |
Indeterminate |
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Dolent |
energetic, active |
yes |
Indolent |
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Eluctable |
avoidable, unscheduled |
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Ineluctable |
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Embowel |
fill, enclose |
yes |
Disembowel |
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Ept |
competent, adroit |
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Inept |
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Ert |
active, eager, prone to hurry |
yes |
Inert |
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Exorable |
flexible, yielding |
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Inexorable |
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Fame |
to spread the renown of, make famous |
yes |
Defame |
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Fecate |
fill with impurities |
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Defecate |
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Foliate |
add layers or leaves |
yes |
Exfoliate |
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Flappable |
easily excitable, nervous |
yes |
Unflappable |
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Gruntled |
content, happy |
yes |
Disgruntled |
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Gusting |
appetizing, attractive |
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Disgusting |
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Ingenuous |
candid, honest |
yes |
Disingenuous |
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Kempt |
neat, tidy, intact |
yes |
Unkempt |
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Lentless |
ending |
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Relentless |
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Licit |
sanctioned, allowed |
yes |
Illicit |
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Member |
to add limbs |
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Dismember |
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Nocuous |
harmful, toxic |
yes |
Innocuous |
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Nomalous |
normal, natural |
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Anomalous |
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Parage |
make equal |
yes |
Disparage |
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Peccable |
liable to sin |
yes |
Impeccable |
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Pervious |
penetrable, permeable |
yes |
Impervious |
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Placable |
benevolent, compassionate |
yes |
Implacable |
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Quieting |
calming, soothing |
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Disquieting |
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Scrutable |
comprehensible |
yes |
Inscrutable |
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Sheveled |
neat, tidy, intact |
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Disshevled |
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Sipid |
interesting, lively |
yes |
Insipid |
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Sonant |
having sound or harmony |
yes |
Dissonant |
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Spicable |
admirable, lovable |
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Dispicable |
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Suade* |
to convince |
yes |
Dissuade |
|
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Tended |
lean, thin |
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Distended |
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Terminable |
ending, exciting |
yes |
Interminable |
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Torted |
aligned, level, straight |
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Distorted |
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Trepid |
timid, timorous |
yes |
Intrepid |
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Trophied |
grown, flourished |
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Atrophied |
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Turbed |
calm, confident |
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Disturbed |
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Vincible |
powerless, ineffectual |
yes |
Invincible |
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Viscerate |
mend, strengthen |
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Eviscerate |
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Whelmed** |
calm, unaffected |
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Over(under)whelmed |
*means the same as persuade, but never used without the prefix (per)
**used in positive (overwhelmed) or negative (underwhelmed) form with prefix
Major
contributors: L. Armus, J.D. Smith,
H. Teplitz, V. Desai, K. Matthews, D. Dale,
W. Reach, T. Murphy, J. Najita, K. Von Braun, E. Schinnerer, J. Larkin