Suffix
noun
A letter or group of letters added at the end of a word to make a new word.
The suffix '-ness' in 'kindness' changes 'kind' into a noun.
Often appears as...
- '-less'
- '-ful'
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Academic
verb
To add something to the end of a text or a piece of information.
The system will automatically suffix a file extension to each file name.
Often appears as...
- suffix a note
- suffix a string
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Technical
noun
A letter or group of letters added at the end of a word to make a new word.
The suffix '-ness' in 'kindness' changes 'kind' into a noun.
Often appears as...
- '-less'
- '-ful'
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To add something to the end of a text or a piece of information.
The system will automatically suffix a file extension to each file name.
Often appears as...
- suffix a note
- suffix a string
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Word Class Changes
Suffixes often change the part of speech of the original word, like turning verbs into nouns or adjectives.
Adding '-ment' transforms the verb 'achieve' into the noun 'achievement'.
Pro Tip 2/3Meaning Adjustment
Different suffixes modify the meaning of the base word in specific ways, revealing shades of meaning.
'Careful' becomes 'careless' with the suffix '-less', showing lack of care.
Pro Tip 3/3Derivational Suffixes
Suffixes that form new words are called derivational, they can create completely different words.
From 'beauty', add '-ful' to form 'beautiful', a different word with related meaning.
Pro Tip 1/3Word Class Changes
Suffixes often change the part of speech of the original word, like turning verbs into nouns or adjectives.
Adding '-ment' transforms the verb 'achieve' into the noun 'achievement'.
Pro Tip 2/3Meaning Adjustment
Different suffixes modify the meaning of the base word in specific ways, revealing shades of meaning.
'Careful' becomes 'careless' with the suffix '-less', showing lack of care.
Pro Tip 3/3Derivational Suffixes
Suffixes that form new words are called derivational, they can create completely different words.
From 'beauty', add '-ful' to form 'beautiful', a different word with related meaning.
Pro Tip 1/3Word Class Changes
Suffixes often change the part of speech of the original word, like turning verbs into nouns or adjectives.
Adding '-ment' transforms the verb 'achieve' into the noun 'achievement'.
Pro Tip 2/3Meaning Adjustment
Different suffixes modify the meaning of the base word in specific ways, revealing shades of meaning.
'Careful' becomes 'careless' with the suffix '-less', showing lack of care.
Pro Tip 3/3Derivational Suffixes
Suffixes that form new words are called derivational, they can create completely different words.
From 'beauty', add '-ful' to form 'beautiful', a different word with related meaning.
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which means the active and the suffix colar which means one does I'm an educator it is my job to lead my students out of the ignorance of racism we have been conditioned through the idea of three or four different races there aren't three or four different races of people on the face of the earth there's only one we
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words you could put together sentences like this one means he lose poverty get media smiley on yani which means word for word the child plays with the ocelots and of course if you wanted to be clever you could take this suffix here that corresponds to the s in
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How computers translate...
while in others, doing so could make the muffin eat the child. Morphology can also pose a problem. Slovene distinguishes between two children and three or more using a dual suffix absent in many other languages,
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but not just any picking up -- it's picking up chicks. So they are artists of picking up chicks. And they call heartache "one-itis." In English, "itis" is a suffix that signifies infection.
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
which means the active and the suffix colar which means one does I'm an educator it is my job to lead my students out of the ignorance of racism we have been conditioned through the idea of three or four different races there aren't three or four different races of people on the face of the earth there's only one we
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What does it take to...
words you could put together sentences like this one means he lose poverty get media smiley on yani which means word for word the child plays with the ocelots and of course if you wanted to be clever you could take this suffix here that corresponds to the s in
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How computers translate...
while in others, doing so could make the muffin eat the child. Morphology can also pose a problem. Slovene distinguishes between two children and three or more using a dual suffix absent in many other languages,
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Love -- you're doing it...
but not just any picking up -- it's picking up chicks. So they are artists of picking up chicks. And they call heartache "one-itis." In English, "itis" is a suffix that signifies infection.
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Quote examples
William Gibson
American Writer
Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
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Callan McAuliffe
Australian Actor
I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.
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Michael Chabon
American Author
I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.
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Sandi Toksvig
British Writer
English is full of Scandinavian words. Margate, Ramsgate, Billingsgate, any town with a 'gate' on it takes their suffix from the Danish word 'gade' which simply means 'street.
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William Gibson
American Writer
Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
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Callan McAuliffe
Australian Actor
I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.
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Michael Chabon
American Author
I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.
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Sandi Toksvig
British Writer
English is full of Scandinavian words. Margate, Ramsgate, Billingsgate, any town with a 'gate' on it takes their suffix from the Danish word 'gade' which simply means 'street.
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