Add ‘un’ – to the words below to make their opposites. Then look up the meanings of the words you have formed in the dictionary.
1. identified ______________
2. controlled ______________
3. attended ______________
4. successful ______________
5. important ______________
6. educated ______________
7. interesting ______________
8. qualified ______________
9. trained ______________
10. answerable ______________
1. identified – unidentified
2. controlled – uncontrolled
3. attended – unattended
4. successful – unsuccessful
5. important – unimportant
6. educated – uneducated
7. interesting - uninteresting
8. qualified – unqualified
9. trained - untrained
10. Answerable – unanswerable
Meaning
1. unidentified – not recognized
2. uncontrolled – the loss of power to control a situation or certain things
3. unattended – not noticed or looked after
4. unsuccessful – the situation of failure
5. unimportant – the lack of value for something
6. uneducated – lack of literacy i.e. the basic level of learning to read and write
7. uninteresting – something boring in nature
8. unqualified – not fit for a particular task
9. untrained – not enough experience
10. unanswerable – the inability to be answerable to a particular cause