out- vs un-

out-

prefix
  • Forms verbs with the sense of surpassing or exceeding the prefixed word. This construction is productive. 

  • Toward the outside of, away from 

  • External to, on the outside of 

  • Greater than 

  • Completely 

  • Beyond 

un-

prefix
  • intensifying a verb that already suggests opposition or removal 

  • do the opposite of, reverse (a specified action) 

  • contrary to or contrasted against traditional norms; unconventional; alternative 

  • Used to form temporary names of elements (such as unbiunium) whose existence has been predicted, and have not yet been given a trivial name. 

  • absent; lacking; not; negative 

  • deprive of, release from, free from, remove from, extract from 

  • not 

  • Used to form large numbers as the first in the sequence. 

How often have the words out- and un- occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )