Are you disgusted, disgruntled and disheveled? Well, unfortunately you’re never going to be gusted, gruntled or sheveled. Disgusted, disgruntled and disheveled are what you might call “lonely negatives.” They’re negative words whose positive partners have vanished or never existed in the first place.
The twelve “lonely negative” words:
disgust
disheveled
inscrutable
ineffable
disappoint
indelible
impeccable
indolent
indefatigable
incessant
reckless
disgruntled
Read the article for their origins.