Suffix Meanings list list list list list list list -able -ac

Sample Words and Definitions excitable, portable, preventable cardiac, hemophiliac, maniac perspicacity, sagacity, velocity

able to be pertaining to

-acity (-ocity) -ade -age

quality of

act, action or process, product blockade, cavalcade, promenade, action or process passage, pilgrimage, voyage workaholic, shopaholic, alcoholic

-aholic (-oholic) one with an obsession for -al -algia relating to pain

bacterial, theatrical, natural

neuralgia, nostalgia, relating to, belonging to Italian, urban, African

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-an (-ian)

-ance state or quality of -ant

brilliance, defiance, annoyance

a person who applicant, immigrant, servant inclined to, tending to brilliant, defiant, vigilant

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-ar

of or relating to, being lunar, molecular, solar a person who beggar, burglar, liar

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-ard

a person who does an action

coward, sluggard, wizard

-arian a person who disciplinarian, vegetarian, librarian -arium (orium) a place for -ary -ate terrarium, aquarium, solarium

of or relating to literary, military, budgetary state or quality of (adj.) affectionate, desolate, obstinate makes the word a verb (different pronunciation) activate, evaporate,

medicate list list list list -ation action or process -ative tending to (adj.) up -cide act of killing creation, narration, emancipation creative, preservative, talkative homicide, suicide, genocide bureaucracy, aristocracy, theocracy

-cracy rule, government, power

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-crat -cule -cy

someone who has power

aristocrat, bureaucrat, technocrat molecule, ridicule,

diminutive (making something small) state, condition or quality

efficiency, privacy, belligerency

-cycle circle, wheel -dom -dox up

bicycle, recycle, tricycle boredom, freedom, wisdom

condition of, state, realm belief, praise -ectomy past tense

orthodox, paradox surgical removal of appendectomy, hysterectomy

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-ed -ee -eer

called, hammered, laughed nominee, employee, devotee engineer, volunteer

receiver, performer

associated with/engaged in

-emia blood conditionanemia, hypoglycemia, leukemia -en makes the word a verb awaken, fasten, strengthen absence, dependence, negligence

-ence state or condition, action -ency condition or quality

clemency, dependency, efficiency competent,

list -ent inclined to performing/causing, or one who performs/causes correspondent, absorbent list -er more bigger, faster, happier flutter, ponder, stutter announcer, barber, teacher

action or process

a person who does an action list list list list list list list -ern up -ese state or quality of -escence

eastern, northern, western adolescence, convalescence

state or process

relating to a place

Chinese, Congolese, Vietnamese

-esque in the style of Kafkaesque, grotesque, burlesque -ess -est -etic female actress, heiress, lioness most funniest, hottest, silliest athletic, energetic, poetic

relating to (makes the word an adj.)

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-ette -ful -fy

diminutive (makes something smaller) cigarette, diskette, kitchenette full of helpful, thankful, cheerful make, cause (makes the word a verb) amplify, falsify, terrify marriage, union angle monogam, polygamy

-gam/gamy -gon/gonic

hexagon, polygonic, pentagon childhood, neighborhood, motherhood

-hood state, condition, or quality up -ian -iasis -ial relating to

celestial, editorial, martial

relating to

Martian, utopian, pediatrician elephantiasis, psoriasis pediatric, psychiatric,

diseased condition

-iatric healing practice list list list list list list -ible able to be

audible, plausible, legible analytic/al, comic/al, organic

-ic/ical relating to, characterized by -ile -ily -ine -ing

relating to, capable of agile, docile, volatile in what mannersloppily, steadily, zanily relating to materials canine, feminine, masculine bedding, frosting, roofing dancing, seeing, writing celebration, completion, navigation ambitious, cautious, gracious apish, brutish, childish

action or process list list list list list list list list list -ion -ious -ish -ism -ist -ite -itis -ity -ive action or process

having the qualities of, full of relating to, characteristic

state or quality altruism, despotism, heroism a person, one who does an action resident of, follower, product of inflammation, preoccupation state, condition, or quality artist, linguist, pianist suburbanite, luddite, dynamite

appendicitis, tonsillitis, frontrunneritis abnormality, civility, necessity attractive, expensive, repulsive

inclined to; quality of; that which

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-ization act or process of making -ize -less -let up -ling cause, treat, become

colonization, fertilization, modernization

antagonize, authorize, popularize

withoutfearless, helpless, homeless version of -like booklet, droplet, inlet childlike, homelike, lifelike

resembling, characteristic

younger or inferior

duckling, underling

-loger/logist -log -ly

one who does astrologer, cardiologist, chronologer

speech dialog, monolog, in what mannerbadly, courageously, happily movement, placement, shipment

-ment action, result -ness -oid up -oma

state or quality (makes a noun) kindness, shyness, weakness resembling humanoid, tabloid, hemorrhoid anthropology, archaeology, biology

-ology study of, science of

tumor, swelling carcinoma, osteoma, hematoma synonym, antonym, homonym myopia, nyctalopia, hyperopia biopsy, autopsy, necropsy

-onym name, word -opia -opsy -or -ory -osis eye defect examination

a person who inventor, legislator, translator relating to armory, dormitory, laboratory diagnosis, prognosis, neurosis, psychosis

process, diseased condition

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-ostomy/otomy surgical colostomy, lobotomy, craniotomy -ous up full of hazardous, humorous, wondrous -path one who engages in homeopath, naturopath, psychopath

-pathy feeling, diseased list list

sympathy, apathy, neuropathy

-phile one who loves bibliophile, audiophile, pyrophile -phobia abnormal fear of acrophobia, claustrophobia, xenophobia

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-phone sound homophone, telephone, microphone -phyte plant, to grow zoophyte, cryptophyte, epiphyte

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-plegia paralysis

paraplegia, quadriplegia, hemiplegia paraplegic, technoplegic, quadriplegic

-plegic one who is paralyzed -pnea air, spirit list list list list list list list list list list list list list list list list list list list list

apnea, hyperpnea, orthopnea arthroscopy, gastroscopy, microscope

-scopy/scope visual exam -scribe/script -sect -ship -sion

to writetranscript, describe, manuscript

to cut dissect, insect, bisect state or condition of, skill of authorship, citizenship, friendship

state or quality confusion, depression, tension cumbersome, quarrelsome, foursome philosophy, theosophy, anthroposophic

-some characterized by, group of -sophy/sophic wisdom, knowledge up -tion -th

state or quality depth, length, strength

state or quality attention, caution, fascination to cut hysterectomy, epitome, tonsillotome atrophy, hypertrophy, dystrophy fortitude, gratitude, magnitude ability, honesty, loyalty cellular, circular, muscular

-tome/tomy

-trophy nourishment, growth -tude -ty -ular

state, condition or quality state, condition or quality relating to or resembling

-uous state or quality of -ure action, condition

arduous, tumultuous, virtuous closure, erasure, failure backward, eastward, homeward hardware, software, kitchenware

-ward specifies direction

-ware things of the same type or material -wise up in what manner of direction -y

clockwise, lengthwise, otherwise brainy, fruity, gooey

made up of, characterized