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- An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite. If the prefix or suffix is negative, such as 'dis-' or -'less', the word can be called an orphaned negative. Unpaired words can be the result of one of the words falling out of popular usage, or can be created when only one word of a pair is borrowed from another language, in either case yielding an accidental gap, specifically a morphological gap. Other unpaired words were never part of a pair; their starting or ending phonemes, by accident, happen to match those of an existing morpheme, leading to a reinterpretation. The classification of a word as "unpaired" can be problematic, as a word thought to be unattested might reappear in real-world usage or be created, for example, through humorous back-formation. In some cases a paired word does exist, but is quite rare or archaic (no longer in general use). Such words – and particularly the back-formations, used as nonce words – find occasional use in wordplay, particularly light verse. There are a handful of notable . (en)
- 不成對詞（英語：unpaired word）是有些詞彙依照語法應該擁有相對應的詞彙，但實際上卻沒有，這類詞裡面中通常有某個詞綴依照該語言的慣例可以移除或改用反義的詞綴來產生反義詞，然而卻因一些因素不能如此做。不成對詞是一種偶然空缺。 (zh)
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- 不成對詞（英語：unpaired word）是有些詞彙依照語法應該擁有相對應的詞彙，但實際上卻沒有，這類詞裡面中通常有某個詞綴依照該語言的慣例可以移除或改用反義的詞綴來產生反義詞，然而卻因一些因素不能如此做。不成對詞是一種偶然空缺。 (zh)
- An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite. If the prefix or suffix is negative, such as 'dis-' or -'less', the word can be called an orphaned negative. Such words – and particularly the back-formations, used as nonce words – find occasional use in wordplay, particularly light verse. There are a handful of notable . (en)
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