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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: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-dom
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-en
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must no…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-er
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; as, warmer, sooner, lat(e)er, earl(y)ier.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-est
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-graphy
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-ic
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix, denoting that the element indicated enters into certain compounds with its highest valence, or with a valence relatively hig…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-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: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-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: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-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: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-ite
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-less
unknown · 78% connection
A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-ment
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-meter
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-metry
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting the art, process, or science, of measuring; as, acidmetry, chlorometry, chronometry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-ol
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, as car…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
-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: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
Analogy
noun · 78% connection
A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: suffix, forming, adjectives, adverbs, denoting.
