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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An affix added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending, such as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, or -s in sits.
  • v. To add as a suffix.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One or more letters or sounds added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning, such as able, which changes sing into singable, for example.
  • v. to append (something) to the end of something else
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
  • n. A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
  • v. To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To attach at the end: specifically used of adding or annexing a letter or syllable, a suffix.
  • n. In. grammar, a letter or syllable added or annexed to the end of a word or to a verbal root or stem; a formative element, consisting of one or more letters, added to a primitive word to make a derivative; a postfix; a terminal formative, as the -th of length, the -d of loved, the -ly of godly, the -ly of badly, etc.
  • n. In mathematics, an index written after and under a letter, as x0, x1, x2, x3.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. attach a suffix to
  • n. an affix that is added at the end of the word
  • Antonym
    prefix   
    Verb Form
    suffixed    suffixes    suffixing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    affix    termination    ending   
    Cross Reference
    Suffixes   
    Variant
    subscript   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    postfix    append    affix    ending    termination    addition    terminant   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prefix    ending    terminations    adjective    noun    inflection