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445
prefixes and suffixes
The following
suffixes.
1
and suffixes
are some of the most common
and useful English prefixes and
prefixes
prefix
aAngloanteantiarch-
mainly added
adj.
adj,
adj., verbs,
nouns
adj., nouns
nouns
auto-
adj., nouns
self
bicent(i)cocounter-
adj., nouns
nouns
verbs, nouns
adj., verbs,
nouns
nouns
two
hundredth
together (with)
against
cyberde-
to
usual meaning
not, without
English
before
against
supreme,
most
computer,
internet
reversing action
take away
not, opposite
e-
verbs
verbs
adj., verbs,
nouns
verbs
nouns
eco-
adj., nouns
reversing action
electronic,
internet
environment
en-
foregeohyper-
nouns
adj.
adj., nouns
nouns
adj.
adj.
verbs, nouns
adj., nouns
adj., nouns
put in
make
European
former
exceptionally
outside
before
earth
extreme (ly)
illin-
past participles
adj.
badly
not, opposite
dis-
Euroexextra-
(im- before p)
(il- before 1)
(ir - before r)
interadj., verbs
between,
among
examples
amoral, asexual
Anglo -American
antenatal, antedate
anteroom
antisocial, anti-war
archbishop,
arch-enemy
automatic,
autobiography
bilingual, bicycle
centimetre, centilitre
co-operate, co-pilot
counteract
counter -revolution( aryl
cybercrime, cyberculture
defrost, deregulate
deforest
disloyal, disappear
disorder
disconnect, disinfect
email, e-commerce,
e-book
eco-friendly,
eco-tourism
endanger, encircle
enrich, enable
Eurocentric, Europop
ex-husband
extra-special
extra-terrestrial
foretell, foreknowledge
geothermal, geophysics
hypercritical,
hypertension
ill-advised, ill-expressed
incomplete, insensitive
impossible
illegible
irregular
international,
intermarry
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prefix
kilomal-
micro-
mainly added to usual meaning
nouns
thousand
bad(ly)
adj., verbs,
nouns
million
nouns
adj. (informal)
extremely
very small
adj., nouns
mid-
nouns
milliminimis-
nouns
nouns
verbs, nouns
in the
middle of
thousandth
little
wrong(ly)
mono-
adj., nouns
one
multi-
adj., nouns
many
neonon-
adj., nouns
nouns, adj.
new(ly)
not
omniout-
adj.
verbs, nouns
overpanphoto-
adj., verbs
adj.
adj., nouns
all
do/be more
than
too much
right across
light
polypostprepro-
adj.,
adj.,
adj.,
adj.,
many
after
before
for, in favour of
pseudopsychoresemi-
adj.
adj., nouns
verbs, nouns
adj., nouns
false
mind, mental
again, back
half
sociosub-
adj., nouns
adj., nouns
society
below
super-
adj. nouns
telethermo-
nouns
adj., nouns
more than,
special
distant
heat
transtri-
adj., verbs
adj., nouns
across
three
mega-
nouns
nouns
nouns
nouns
examples
kilometre, kilogram
maltreat, malformed
malfunction
megabyte
mega-rich
microlight (aircraft),
micrometer
mid-December,
mid-afternoon
millisecond
miniskirt, minicab
misunderstand,
misconduct
monogamous,
monorail
multilingual,
multi-purpose
neo-classical, neo-Nazi
non-smoker,
non- returnable
omnipresent
outrun, outnumber (vb.)
over-confident, overeat
pan-American
photoelectric,
photosynthesis
polyglot, polygon
post-modern, postwar
premarital, prewar
pro-communist,
pro-government (adj.)
pseudo-academic
psycho-analysis
rebuild, reconstruction
semi-conscious,
semicircle
socio-economic
sub-standard,
subconscious, subway
supernatural,
supermarket
telescope
thermo-electric,
thermometer
transatlantic, transplant
tripartite, triangle
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prefixes and suffixes
prefix
ultra-
mainly added to usual meaning
extreme, beyond
adj., nouns
un-
adj., participles
verbs
verbs,
participles
adj., nouns
nouns
underunivice-
2
not, opposite
reverse action
too little
one
deputy
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examples
ultra- modern,
ultrasound
uncertain, unexpected
untie, undress
underestimate,
under-developed
unilateral, unicycle
vice-chairman
suffixes that form nouns
suffix
mainly added to usual meaning
-age
verbs
instance of
-al
verbs
instance of
-ance, -ancy adj., verbs
process/state of
-ation
verbs
verbs
-ee
verbs
-ence, -ency adj., verbs
-er
nouns
-er/or
verbs
-ess
-ette
-ful
-hood
nouns
nouns
nouns
nouns
-ing
nouns
-ism
nouns
nouns
-ity
-ment
adj.
verbs
-ness
-ocracy
-ology
-phile
-phobe
-phobia
nouns
nouns
nouns
nouns
nouns
-ship
nouns
adj,
examples
breakage, shrinkage
refusal, dismissal
reluctance, performance,
expectancy
exploration, starvation
process/state of
product of
organisation,
foundation
object of verb
payee, employee
process/state of
independence, presidency
belonging to
teenager, Londoner
person/thing that writer, driver, starter,
does
editor
lioness, waitress
female
small
kitchenette
spoonful, cupful
amount held in
quality, group,
brotherhood, childhood
time of
quantity of
carpeting, tubing
material
activity
farming, surfing
belief, practice
communism,
impressionism
quality of
elasticity, falsity
process/result of government,
arrangement
quality of
meanness, happiness
democracy
government by
sociology
study of
lover of
Anglophile
hater, fearer of
Anglophobe
irrational fear of arachnophobia
(fear of spiders)
status, state,
friendship, dictatorship
quality of
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prefixes and suffixes
3
4
suffixes that form nouns or adjectives
suffix
-ese
mainly added
place nouns
-(i)an
nouns
-ist
nouns
nouns
-al
-centric
-ed
-ful
-ic
-ical
-ish
-ive
-less
-like
-ly
-ous
-proof
-ward
-y
usual meaning
inhabitant of,
language of
supporter of,
related to
citizen of
practitioner
of
examples
Chinese, Vietnamese
Darwinian, republican
Parisian, Moroccan
pianist, racist
mainly
verbs
nouns
nouns
nouns
added
to
nouns
nouns
nouns
adj., nouns
place nouns
usual meaning
can be (done)
related to
centred on
having
examples
full of, providing
related to
related to
rather (like)
inhabitant of,
language of
can do, does
without
like
with the quality of
having
protected/- ing against
towards
like, characterised
by
verbs
nouns
nouns
nouns
nouns
nouns
adj.
nouns
washable, drinkable
accidental
Euroceruric
wooded, pointed,
blue-eyed
useful, helpful
electric
philosophical, logical
greenish, childish
Scottish, Turkish
attractive, selective
careless, homeless
childlike
friendly, motherly
virtuous, ambitious
bullet-proof, waterproof
backward, northward
creamy, wealthy
suffixes that form adverbs
suffix
-Iy
-wardis)
6
to
suffixes that form adjectives
suffix
-able
5
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mainly
adj,
adj,
added
to
usual meaning
in an (adjective)
towards
examples
way
calmly, slowly
backwards, northward(s)
suffixes that form verbs
suffix
-ate
-en
-ify
-ise/-ize
mainly added
nouns
adj.
adj., nouns
adj., nouns
to
usual meaning
causative
make, become
causative: make
various
examples
orchestrate, chlorinate
deafen, ripen, harden
simplify, electrify
modernise, symbolise
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