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-ably
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ate
unknown · 78% connection
As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ee
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ence
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, dili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ency
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-et
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ion
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ism
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-let
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ling
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-or
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ory
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix denoting that which pertains to, or serves for; as in ambulatory, that which serves for walking; consistory, factory, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
-ster
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinste…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
Antisocialist
noun · 78% connection
One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
Aptote
noun · 78% connection
A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
Case
noun · 78% connection
One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
Cis
noun · 78% connection
an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
Commonwealth of Independent States
noun · 78% connection
an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, agent, doer.
