| Suffix |
Meaning |
Examples |
able-
ible- |
able to be, capable of being |
pourable, drinkable, readable, washable,
curable, visible, flexible, collectible
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| ance, ancy |
state of, process of |
performance, reliance, defiance, radiance, acceptance, ascendancy,
discrepancy, infancy |
| dom |
condition, office, state |
kingdom, freedom, wisdom, sheikdom, fiefdom, sheikdom |
| ee |
one who receives |
payee, mortgagee, employee, appointee, abductee, examinee, referee,
refugee |
| er, or |
one who does [the verb] |
driver, hiker, reader, manager, polisher, speaker, counselor, author,
creator, director, sculptor |
| ful |
filled with |
frightful, delightful, wonderful, cupful, wakeful, bashful,
bountiful, beautiful, cheerful, colorful, dreadful, fateful |
| ify |
to make into |
purify, deify, simplify, clarify, petrify |
| ification |
process of making into |
purification, deification, simplifiction, clarification,
petrification |
| ish |
the nature of, resembling |
Cornish, Irish, bookish, freakish, foolish, boorish, selfish,
sluggish, priggish |
| ism |
doctrine, system, characteristic quality |
capitalism, heroism, optimism, skepticism, realism, patriotism, communism, idealism, conservatism |
| ist |
one who performs; an adherent of an ism |
tympanist, cellist, idealist, communist, realist, moralist,
pharamacist, pragmatist |
| ize |
to make into |
rationalize, normalize, realize, capitalize |
| ization |
the process of making into |
rationalization, normalization, realization, capitalization |
| less |
without |
loveless, fearless, worthless, nameless, baseless, bottomless,
effortless, friendless, noiseless, harmless |
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