Talk:Unpaired word

message: Wouldn't absurd qualify as well?  Ab- meaning against, and surd having no meaning in this context....  —  MusicMaker5376 19:56, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absurd 

message: Why is "nocent" supposedly "not an exact antonym"? It means "causing injury"; an innocent person is by definition one who hasn't caused injury.
On another note, I've heard "couth" used quite often, so I'm not sure if "uncouth" fits the definition of an unpaired word.
Also, could it be helpful to specify in what era these words' pairs were used? I believe "nocent" is Middle English, although I recently came across it as late as John Bramhall. Graymornings (talk) 07:43, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nocent, couth 

message: I disagree that stinting is rarely used.  You can find 4220 uses of it at Google news for all dates, and 22 hits in current usage.  Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 18:27, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's the verb stint, "to skimp on". Circéus (talk) 01:43, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Stinting

message: *noncommittal
*incontrovertible
*unprepossessing
*discombobulate  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.118.16.5 (talk) 18:25, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about these? 

message: There are several italicized words in the list displayed on the Page which are starred ( * ). When I see a star like that, I look at the end of the page for the footnote. And there ain't were none, were there?
Nor am I sure as to why they were italicised in the first place. Emphasis? I am not fixing it because perhaps there WAS some footnote, or such, and it has been deleted in the history wars. So I'll let it go for a week. Added disgruntled to the list. It's a good page. Myles325a (talk) 02:52, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  *Psst...look below... 

message: It seems somewhat silly to list this word.  Does it relate to "two" (the only meaning of "di-" with which I am familiar) in a way in which "shevelled" would be a plausible corresponding word that doesn't?  We could go on forever listing words whose first two or three letters coincide with a prefix.  Which is indeed the nature of many unpaired words, except that normally the pairing is intuitively plausible (even if etymologically invalid). — Smjg (talk) 00:02, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shevelled 

message: Seems irrelevant - the rest of the article is about English and no mention is made of other languages. Also dubious humorous value (not a common part of jokes - more weird than funny). The notes on pronunciation are bizarre. Blanking. --49.134.85.219 (talk) 10:35, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese Section 

message: What is the purpose of the "Paired word(s)" column - to give an antonym that actually exists, rare as it may be, or to state what the antonym ought logically to be?  At the moment we have feckless, gormless and ruthless.  You could go on forever listing non-existent -ful words - homeful, sleeveful, timeful just to name a few.  (OK, I've just discovered that timeful does exist, though it seems to be far from an antonym of timeless.)  Indeed, someone has already pointed this out, albeit in relation to content that has since been deleted.  More to the point would be to note the (seeming) non-existence of words feck, gorm and ruth from which they ought to derive.
Still, what do people think we should do with these entries? — Smjg (talk) 01:03, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The -less words 

message: Does "avuncular" count, given that there is no feminine equivalent? Scareduck (talk) 21:09, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  avuncular 

message: The word "inept" appears several times in passing, though not in the "Unpaired words in English" table, with the suggested antonym "ept".  But I've occasionally wondered whether its proper opposite is "apt".  If so, "inept" would classify as a sort of "false friendless", wouldn't it?   yoyo (talk) 01:39, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inept 

message: Should "evitable" be added to the table, as the opposite of "inevitable"? It's one of the non-existent words used in "How I Met My Wife" by Jack Winter, linked in the Examples section. It is in the dictionary, but Merriam-Webster notes that it is rarely used.
Seansinc (talk) 07:12, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evitable 

message: Thanks for adding to the list. Could you put in a source/citation for the word? The article is already poorly sourced as is. Cheers, Fredlesaltique (talk) 05:29, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebuttal 

message: That's actually quite common in the chess literature. See this for example. Double sharp (talk) 11:43, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Committal 

message: I'm rather baffled. I'm accustomed to whelm meaning "to swarm/flood/heap about (or around)" and thus overwhelm to be too much/above head and underwhelm meaning not reached. 104.220.91.194 (talk) 19:43, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whelm