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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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-ing
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-ish
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a dim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-ist
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-ive
unknown · 78% connection
An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-or
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, diminutive, force, streamlet.
-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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
Armlet
noun · 78% connection
A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, diminutive, force, streamlet.
Augmentative
noun · 78% connection
A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, diminutive, force, streamlet.
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, diminutive, force, streamlet.
Coercion
noun · 78% connection
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, diminutive, force, streamlet.
