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  adjective.
  unprestigious
  un·pres·ti·gious
  (of a person) strong, imposing, or impressive
  "an unprestigious figure during his lifetime"```

(https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/u749)

Hmm. I think it might need some more work. I mean, there's a strong argument that unprestigious is not a word, but if it was, that certainly would not be the meaning.

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Or it might be OK. After all, loosening and unloosening your shoe laces is the same thing.

Also inflammable and flammable.

English is strange.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

Strange and dumb are actually synonyms in this particular context.

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-wife...

There is only poor, easily dismissable argument that unprestigious is not a word.

The un- prefix is a highly productive morpheme English; dictionaries would only waste space by listing every possible un- word.

I'm not sure why, but "non-prestigious" feels more "correct" to me. I know that those prefixes aren't identical in meaning though, so both could be words with slightly different meanings.

What about objects that cause you to lose your recently acquired prestige?

To me, at least, "non-prestigious" sounds neutral, while "unprestigious" sound a bit derogatory.

This word most definitely does exist: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/SidH

One would think that about inflammable too

Or unhulled

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