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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, error, fervor.
-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, error, fervor.
-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, error, fervor.
-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, error, fervor.
-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, error, fervor.
-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, error, fervor.
-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, denoting, error, fervor.
-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, error, fervor.
-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, error, fervor.
-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, error, fervor.
Abscission
noun · 78% connection
A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, error, fervor.
Anachronism
noun · 78% connection
A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, error, fervor.
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, error, fervor.
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, error, fervor.
Check bit
noun · 78% connection
(computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, error, fervor.
Compound
noun · 78% connection
a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, error, fervor.
Compound word
noun · 78% connection
a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, error, fervor.
Disingenuous
adjective · 78% connection
Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: noun, suffix, denoting, error, fervor.
