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Privative :: Privative (n.) A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3..

#NAME? :: -ing () A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing..

-able :: -able () An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable..

#NAME? :: -en () An adjectival suffix, meaning made of; as in golden, leaden, wooden..

#NAME? :: -ism () A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism..

Suffix :: Suffixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffi.

#NAME? :: -ic () A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc..

#NAME? :: -ite () A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its use in writing..

More :: More (adv.) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly..

#NAME? :: -ive () An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive..

#NAME? :: -gram () A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram..

#NAME? :: -one () A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone..

#NAME? :: -metry () A suffix denoting the art, process, or science, of measuring; as, acidmetry, chlorometry, chronometry..

-dom :: -dom () A suffix denotin.

#NAME? :: -ly (a.) A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance..

#NAME? :: -esque () A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs..

Sufflaminate :: Suffixment (n.) Suffixion.

Form :: form (n.) A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform..

Un- :: Un- (adv.) An inseparable prefix, or particle, signifying not; in-; non-. In- is prefixed mostly to words of Latin origin, or else to words formed by Latin suffixes; un- is of much wider application, and is attached at will to almost any adjective, or participle used adjectively, or adverb, from which it may be desired to form a corresponding negative adjective or adverb, and is also, but less freely, prefixed to nouns. Un- sometimes has merely an intensive force; as in unmerciless, unremorseles

Affix :: Affix (n.) That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

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