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The existence of words with negative prefixes and no positive opposites bothers me. For example you can be inscrutable, but not scrutable, inept but not ept, nonplussed but not plussed, feckless but not fecked (unless you’re Irish), dishevelled, but not shevelled, and so on.
What bothers me about this is you can be negative with no positive opposite, but not positive with no negative opposite....
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