Meanings
Noun
1. fault; error; mistake
2. going poorly; being disadvantageous; being unfavorable
Prefix
3. un-; non-; an-
Kanji used
go against
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (307 in total)
certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
lack of common sense; thoughtlessness; senselessness; irrationality; absurdity
cold-hearted; callous; unfeeling; insentient (objects); insensate; inanimate
unjust; inhuman
powerless; helpless; incompetent
the extraordinary; the unusual; the unexpected
time of emergency; (in an) emergency
impoliteness
informal; unofficial
illegal; unlawful
non-combatant; civilian
rightly or wrongly; by all possible means
extraordinary; uncommon; remarkable; unusual; rare; prodigious
for emergency use
falsely similar; counterfeit
to admit fault; to admit one is wrong
emergency light; emergency lamp
private; exclusive; secret
number-withheld phone calls
extraordinary; unusual; strange; unexpected
non-virgin woman; woman with sexual experience
delinquency; misconduct
irregular employment; non-fulltime employment; non-regular; irregular; subnormal (number); denormal
impeccable; unimpeachable; cannot be faulted; above reproach; beyond reproach; faultless
part-time lecturer; contract teacher
demilitarization; demilitarisation; demilitarized; demilitarised; unarmed
unproductive; counterproductive
unnatural or untimely (death)
condemning; denouncing
unpopular (esp. with the opposite sex); undatable
article not for sale
lack of ability; incompetence; incapacity
hidden; non-display; to hide (window, etc.)
group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants); non-human
nonviolence; non-violence
unofficial; unauthorised
unpatriotic person; traitor (to one's country)
right and wrong
impeccable; unimpeachable; cannot be faulted; above reproach; beyond reproach; faultless
heartless; inhuman; unfeeling
out of contact; contactless (usually used to describe contactless cards)
right or wrong
tax-exempt; tax-free; tax-exempted
irregular employment; atypical employment
to cry against; to denounce publicly
unreasonable; illogical
non-profit; not-for-profit; non-commercial
non-linear; nonlinear
bad fortune; misfortune
unsociable; retiring; solitude-loving
extraordinary person; genius
anti-war argument; pacifism
unnatural or untimely death
non-ego (philosophy); not-self
apolitical; nonpolitical
non-member state; non-member nation
non-destructive
unsanitary; unhygienic
unlisted (company, stock)
non-nuclear; anti-nuclear
to realize one's error; to realize one's errors
criticism; censure
incompatible; unsupported
impeccable; unimpeachable; cannot be faulted; above reproach; beyond reproach; faultless
Nonconformist; Dissenter
non-negative
not employed; holding a post but having no duties
inhumane weapons; weapon against humanity
banning (e.g. an organization); making something illegal
non-alignment; nonalignment
non-permanent member (UN Security Council)
impractical; unpractical
non-fulltime worker; non-permanent worker; temp worker; temporary worker
discontinuity; incoherence
free (e.g. verse); atypical
unmarried (by choice)
unscrupulous; dishonest; irresponsibly done (work, etc.)
by fair means or foul; right or wrong
non-governmental
impeccable; unimpeachable; cannot be faulted; above reproach; beyond reproach; faultless
not independent
nonself; not self
non-fulltime employee; non-permanent employee
anharmonic; non-harmonic; discordant
non-von Neumann architecture
non-electrified; unelectrified
unlisted company (on a stock exchange)
right triumphs over wrong, law triumphs over right, power triumphs over law, heaven triumphs over power; no man can oppose the divine
non-restrictive (of relative pronoun use)
(philosophical) indeterminism
unauthorized; unapproved; not recognized
partnership between a lawyer and non-lawyer in providing law services (illegal)
nonbenzodiazepine; non-benzodiazepine; benzodiazepine-like drug
non-linear; nonlinear
impersonalization; impersonalisation; depersonalization
unlisted company (on a stock exchange)
non-perturbative
parenteral nutrition; parenteral alimentation
non-fossil (energy, fuel, etc.)
noncommutative
peacelessness; lacking social peace
non-English-speaking world; non-Anglosphere
free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong; calling spade a spade
non-von Neumann architecture
non-thermal
unincorporated area; township not formally in a municipality
non-separability; indivisibility
non-manual signals; NMS
nontrivial (e.g. solution); non-obvious
non-interactive mode
non-trivial solution
nonexecutable statement
non-local jump; non-local branch
non-disclosure agreement
demythologization; demythicization
exchange or research student (as opposed to regular undergraduate or graduate)
to lose an argument despite being in the right; to have the right on one's side, yet succumb to another
to lose an argument despite being in the right; to have the right on one's side, yet succumb to another
complete reversal of values or ways of thinking
complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right; realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways
non-magnetic body; non-magnetic material
nonprofit (noncommercial) business
asynchronous communication
disconformity; paralleled unconformity
non-genetically modified; non-GMO
non-genetically modified; non-GMO
offline; off-line
practising law without a license
non-incendive; non-firing
non-monotonic logic; nonmonotonic logic
unpasteurized (beer); draft (beer); draught (beer); (lit.) nonthermal treatment
asynchronous transmission
nonstructural element; nonstructural member
Asynchronous Transfer Mode; ATM
nonspecificity; nonspecific; non-specific
principle of nonalignment; nonalignment policy
aspherical surface; aspherical
subnormal number; denormal number; denormalized number
non-return-to-zero (change) recording; NRZ(C)
denationalization (industry, company, etc.)
not a number; NaN
non-positional goods; non-status symbol goods
death not caused by a violent crime (excl. dying of natural causes)
not applicable; na
non-oil producing countries; non-oil nation
proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast, seats are distributed amongst parties by proportion of vote obtained, and candidates are elected in descending order of number of votes obtained
ungrammatical sentence
non-alphanumeric character
nontuberculous mycobacterial infection; nontuberculous mycobacteriosis
nontuberculous mycobacterial infection; nontuberculous mycobacteriosis
non-return-to-zero change-on-ones recording; NRZ-1; non-return-to-zero (mark) recording; NRZ(M)
non-return-to-zero recording; NRZ; non-return-to-reference recording
non-Abelian group; noncommutative group
non-return-to-zero recording; NRZ; non-return-to-reference recording
noncommutative ring
not enabled; not permitted
non-circular; noncircular
nonmanufacturing industry; nonmanufacturing sector
nuclear weapon free; non-nuclear; denuclearized
non-alphabetic; non-alphanumeric
non-ferrous
non-equivalence operation; EXCLUSIVE-OR operation
countries that do not use Chinese characters in their writing; non-kanji countries
to rebuke someone (e.g. for faults)
inability; incapability; lack of calibre