-ous: alternatives and connections

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, m…

A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.

An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.

A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective,…

A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.

A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.

An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amend…

A suffix denoting full of, containing, having the qualities of, like; as in verbose, full of words; pilose, hairy; globose, like a glo…

A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.

Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.

In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

Of or pertaining to comparison.