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Posted by : Unknown Sabtu, 22 November 2014

Derivational Suffix List
I. Suffix list
With derivational suffixes, the new word has a new meaning, and is usually a different part of speech. But the new meaning is related to the old meaning - it is "derived" from the old meaning. There are several hundred derivational suffixes. The following table lists the all derivational suffixes (most common) for Lexical Tools:
SuffixCategorySensesExamplesLexical Tools Rules
able$ adj capable, able to, can do
  • readability|readable
  • wash|washable, tax|taxable, fashion|fasionable
  • wash|washable, tax|taxable, comfort|comfortable
  • irritate|irritable
  • move|movable, note|notable, adore|adorable, use|usable, sale|salable, improve|improvable
  • ability$|noun|base|able$|adj|base
  • able$|adj|base|$|noun|base
  • able$|adj|base|$|verb|base
  • able$|adj|base|ate$|verb|base
  • able$|adj|base|e$|verb|base
ably$ adv  
  • pass|passably, fashion|fashionably
  • notable|notably
  • ably$|adv|base|$|verb|base
  • able$|verb|base|ably$|adv|base (tbd)
ad$ noun group triad, monad
ade$ noun   lemonade, accolade, blockade
age$ noun forming a noun
  • assemble|assemblage, mile|mileage
  • marry|marriage
  • garage
  • age$|noun|base|e$|verb|base
agogy$ noun leading pedagogy, demagogy
al$ (see -ality)adj aspect of, pertaining to
  • function|functional, accident|accidental, profession|professional
  • viscera|visceral, protozoa|protozoal, vagina|vaginal
  • universe|universal
  • bacterium|bacterial
  • focus|focal
  • al$|adj|base|$|noun|base
  • al$|adj|base|a$|noun|base
  • al$|adj|base|e$|noun|base
  • al$|adj|base|um$|noun|base
al$noun abstract noun arrive|arrival, refuse|refusal, appraise|appraisal
ality$noun property (aspect, behaviour, condition) of proportionality, sexuality (see -al and -ity)
an$ adj  
  • Cambodia|Cambodian
  • urban
  • a$|noun|base|an$|adj|base
an$ noun  
  • amphibia|amphibian
  • republican, Roman, veteran
  • a$|noun|base|an$|noun|base
ance$ noun an act of, a state of, the result of (see ence$)
  • govern|governance, annoy|annoyance, repent|repentance
  • defiant|defiance, conformant|conformance, relevant|relevance, relevant|relevance,
  • insure|insurance
  • ance$|noun|base|$|verb|base
  • ance$|noun|base|ant$|adj|base
  • ance$|noun|base|e$|verb|base
ancy$ noun   pregnancy, redundancy, vacancy
ant$ adj pertaining to, VERB + ing (see ent$)
  • relax|relaxant
  • radiate|radiant, dominate|dominant, please|pleasant
  • fumigation|fumigant
  • ant$|adj|base|$|verb|bas
  • ant$|adj|base|ate$|verb|base
  • ant$|adj|base|ation$|noun|base
ant$noun one who, that which (see ent$)
  • triumph|triumphant, assist|assistant, inhabit|inhabitant
  • stimulate|stimulant, immigrate|immigrant
  • serve|servant
  • ant$|noun|base|$|verb|base
  • ant$|noun|base|ate$|verb|base
  • ant$|noun|base|e$|verb|base
ar$ adj
  • alveola|alveolar, fibula|fibular
  • insulate|insular, modulate|modular
  • line|linear, module|modular
  • alveous|alveolar
  • a$|noun|base|ar$|adj|base
  • ar$|adj|base|ate$|verb|base
  • ar$|adj|base|e$|noun|base
  • ar$|adj|base|us$|noun|base
ar$noun beggar, liar
ard$ noun   drunkard, coward, wizard, steward
ary$ adj pertaining to, verb + ing (see ory$)
  • inflation|inflationary, second|secondary, caution|cautionary
  • imagine|imaginary
  • ary$|adj|base|$|noun|base
ary$ noun a place where (see ory$)diction|dictionary, seminar|seminary
arch$ noun ruler, leader monarch, tetrarch
archy$ noun rule, leadership gynarchy, anarchy
arium$ noun a place whereaquarium
asia$ noun fantasia|fantastic
  • asia$|noun|base|astic$|adj|base
ate$ adj pertaining to, VERB + ing
  • adequacy|adequate, celibacy, celibate
  • ire|irate
  • ilitera|literate
  • desper|desperate, fortune|fortunate
  • acy$|noun|base|ate$|adj|base
ate$ noun one who, that whichcertify|certificate, advocate|advocate
ate$ verb to VERB, to cause to, to make libera|liberate, hyphen|hyphenate, concentration|concentrate, oscille|oscillate
athlon$ noun sporting event pentathlon, decathlon
ation$ noun state or concept of
  • flirt|flirtation
  • admire|admiration, starve|starvation, hesitate|hesitation, explore|exploration
  • pronounce|pronunciation
  • ation$|noun|base|$|verb|base
  • ation$|noun|base|e$|verb|base
ation$ noun from verb with -ate, state or concept of
  • alienate|alienation, concentrate|concentration, oscillate|oscillation, narrate|narration, invite|invitation
  • ate$|verb|base|ation$|noun|base
ative$ noun  
  • relate|relative, narrate|narrative
  • ative$|noun|base|ate$|verb|base
ative$ adj   talkative, lucrative, affirmative
atory$ noun   laboratory, conversatory
bound$ adv heading in the direction of inbound, outbound, citybound
cele$, coele$, coel$ noun body cavity mucocoel or mucocoele
cele$ noun tumor, hernia hydatidocele
centesis$ noun puncturing amniocentesis, rachicentesis
cephalic$ adj relating to the head anencephaly, macrocephaly
chondrion$ noun small grainlike structure mitochondrion
cide$ noun murder, killing agent suicide, vespacide, regicide, fratricide
city$ noun practice atrocity
cy$ noun expressing the quality of an adjective diplomacy, literacy, idiocy
cycle$ noun circle, cycle, unit of radio frequency epicycle, hydrocycle
dom$ noun state or condition of freedom, boredom, kingdom
ectasia$, ectasis$ noun stretching out brochiectasis, telangiectasia
ectomy$ noun surgical removal laryngectomy, vasectomy
ed$ adj  
  • pigment|pigmented
  • bore|bored, tile|tiled, glue|glued
  • ed$|adj|base|$|noun|base
  • ed$|adj|base|e$|noun|base
ee$ noun changes verb to a noun (the object of that verb) employee, referee, payee
eer$ adj   engineer, overseer
eme$ noun linguistic unit lexeme, phoneme, morpheme
emia$ noun blood condition leukemia, anaemia
en$ adj   golden, wooden, written, frozen
en$ verb   lessen, deafen, frighten
enchyma$ noun cellular tissue mesenchyma, karyenchyma
ence$ noun an act of, a state of, the result of (see ance$)
  • deferential|deference
  • corpulence|corpulent, prominent|prominence, independent|independence, violent|violence, absent|absence
  • ence$|noun|base|ent$|adj|base
  • ence$|noun|base|ential$|adj|base
ency$ noun  
  • fluent|fluency, cogent|cogency, clement|clemency
  • absorbent|absorbency, frequent|frequency, consistent|consistency
  • ency$|noun|base|ent$|adj|base
  • ency$|noun|base|ent$|noun|base
ent$ adj pertaining to, VERB + ing (see ant$) differ|different, excellence|excellent, independency|independent, fluency|fluent
ent$ noun one who, that which (see ant$)residence|resident, regency|regent, superintend|superintendent
eous$ adj   courteous
er$ noun one who (see or$)
  • work|worker, teach|teacher, employ|employer
  • write|writer, pursue|pursuer work|worker, write|writer, teach|teacher
  • er$|noun|base|$|verb|base
  • er$|noun|base|e$|verb|base
ergy$ noun work energy, synergy
ern$ adj direction western, northern
ery$ noun  
  • slave|slavery, machine|machinery
  • nun|nunnery
  • ery$|noun|base|e$|noun|base
esce$ verb to become, to changeconvalescent|convalesce
ese$ adj, noun nationality, language Chinese, Lebanese, Portuguese
esque$ adj in the style of Pythonesque, Romanesque, picturesque
ess$ noun female god|goddess, actor|actress, waiter|waitress, steward|stewardess, priest|priestess
esthesis$, esthesia$ noun sensation, feeling synesthesia, kinesthesis
etic$ adj  
  • hypothesis|hypothetic
  • energetical|energetic, sympathetical|sympathetic, frenetic
  • etic$|adj|base|esis$|noun|base
ette$ noun small ~diskette, statuette, usherette
fare$ noun how things are going / coming along welfare, fanfare, warfare
ful$ adj full of, having some or much hand|handful, sorrow|sorrowful, forget|forgetful, hope|hopeful, use|useful, help|helpful
gate$ noun a scandal, often political (back-formed from the Watergate scandal) Watergate, nipplegate
gnosis$ noun knowing prognosis, diagnosis
gon$ noun angle polygon, pentagon
graph$ noun  
  • photograph|photography
  • graph$|noun|base|graphy$|noun|base
gram$ noun  
  • thermographic|thermogram
  • thermograph|thermogram
  • thermography|thermogram
  • gram$|noun|base|graphic$|adj|base
  • gram$|noun|base|graph$|noun|base
  • gram$|noun|base|graphy$|noun|base
gry$ noun adjective form of only 2 or 3 nouns in the English language angry, hungry
hedron$ noun seat, face icosahedron, tetrahedron
holic$ adj love, addiction alcoholic, workaholic
hood$ noun state/condition of, a group sharing characteristics child|childhood, neighbor|neighborhood, brother|brotherhood, adult|adulthood, false|falsehood
ia$ noun abnormal state, a medical condition
  • insomnic|insomnia, manic|mania, apraxic|apraxia, dementic|dementia, dysarthric|dysarthria
  • ia$|noun|base|iac$|noun|base
iable$ adj   sociable
ial$ adj  
  • colony|colonial,
  • specially|special
  • filiality|filial, remediality|remedial
  • ial$|adj|base|y$|noun|base
ian$ adj From, related to, or like mammal|mammalian
ian$ adj, noun from, related to, or like
  • Algeria|Algerian
  • Syria|Syrian
  • Italy|Italian
  • Brazil|Brazilian,Christ|Christian
  • ian$|adj|base|ia$|noun|base
  • ian$|noun|base|ia$|noun|base
ian$ noun one from, belonging to, relating to, or like politics|politician, library|librarian, physic|physician, music|musician
iant$ adj  
  • deviance|deviant, defiance|defiant
  • iance$|noun|base|iant$|adj|base
iary$ adj   tertiary
iasis$ noun  
  • trombicula|trombiculiasis
  • a$|noun|base|iasis$|noun|base
iate$ verb   asphyxiate, deviate
ible$ adj capable, can do (same as -able) incredible, terrible, visible
ibly$ adv   incredibly, responsibly, terribly
ic$ noun a thing
  • topic topic
ic$ adj pertaining to
  • amnesia|amnesic, academia|academic
  • alcohol|alcoholic
  • elasticity|elastic, electronicity|electronic, neurotic|neuroticity, historicity|historic
  • barbarism|barbaric
  • demagogy|demagogic
  • ia$|noun|base|ic$|adj|base
  • ic$|adj|base|$|noun|base
  • ic$|adj|base|icity$|noun|base
  • ic$|adj|base|ism$|noun|base
  • ic$|adj|base|y$|noun|base
ical$ adj  
  • critic|critical, economic|economical, phonologic|phonological, historic|historical
  • anatomy|anatomical
  • ical$|adj|base|ic$|noun|base
  • ical$|adj|base|y$|noun|base
ics$ noun the study of Physics,Aerodynamics,Forensics, economics
id$ adj (categorical) property (aspect) of hominid, tepid, candid, fervid (compare -al)
iency$ noun   expedieny
ient$ adj  
  • deficiency|deficient, saliency|salient, sentiency|sentient, expediency|expedient
  • ient$|adj|base|iency$|noun|base
ier$ noun   cashier, financier, gondolier
ify$, fy$ verb to become, make argu|argufy, clear|clarify, ispec|specify, base|basify, vile|vilify
ile$ adj being senility|senile, tactility|tactile, facility|facile, volatility|volatile
illion$ noun large numbers million, billion
ious$ adj  
  • mbition|ambitious, religion|religious
  • glory|glorious
  • deliciousness|delicious
  • vivacity|vivacious
  • ion$|noun|base|ious$|adj|base
  • ious$|adj|base|y$|noun|base
ing$ noun noun from verb, in the process of doing, acting
ing$ noun   bedding, stuffing, roofing
ion$ noun an act of, a state of, the result ofact|action, companion
ish$ adj adjective from noun; similar, sort of; approximately girl|girlish, clear|clearish|foolish, slef|selfish, green|greenish, tall|tallish, fifty|fiftyish, ten|tennish
ish$ adj, noun nationality, language Spanish, Turkish, English
ism$ noun doctrine, act, believe, practice, condition
  • capital|capitalism, Protestant|Protestantism, alcohol|alcoholism, southern|southernism
  • Buddhist|Buddhism, fatalist|fatalism, communist|communism
  • baptise|baptism, criticise|criticism
  • anachronistic|anachronism, atavistic|atavism
  • ism$|noun|base|$|noun|base
  • ism$|noun|base|ist$|noun|base
  • ism$|noun|base|istic$|adj|base
ist$ noun person, one who,
  • art|artist, social|socialist, cell|cellist, violin|violinist
  • race|racist, dental|dentist, piano|pianist
  • ist$|noun|base|$|noun|base
ista$ adept   fashionista
ite$ noun member of a group socialite, Carmelite
ite$ adj pertaining to finity|finite
itis$ noun disease, inflammation bronchitic|bronchitis, hepatitic|hepatitis, gingivitis
itive$ adj   sensitive
itude$ noun   attitude, gratitude, Beatitude
ity$ noun expressing state or condition, name of a quality
  • bnormal|abnormality, normal|normality, formal|formality, banal|banality
  • adverse|adversity
  • frivolous|frivolity
  • ity$|noun|base|$|adj|base
  • ity$|noun|base|e$|adj|base
  • ity$|noun|base|ous$|adj|base
ium$ noun metallic element (exception: helium) sodium, Calcium
ive$ noun an act of, a state of, the result of
  • mission|missive, explosion|explosive mission|missive
  • ive$|noun|base|ion$|noun|base
ive$ adj make the noun an adjective cursiveness|cursive, defense|defensive, aggression|aggressive, passivity|passive
ization$, isation$ noun  
  • organize|organization, categorize|categorization
  • ization$|noun|base|ize$|verb|base
ize$, ise$ verb to cause, to be, to become, to make
  • vocal|vocalize, terror|terrorize, material|materialize, material|materialise, idol|idolize, idol|idolise
  • private|privatize
  • ize$|verb|$|noun (TBD)
izzle$ used for hip hop slang   Americizzle
kinesis$ noun movement (ability thereof) telekinesis
less$ adj lack of seed|seedless, home|homeless, use|useless, care|careless, clue|clueless
let$ noun diminutive, or denoting a relation to some part of the body ringlet, hamlet, anklet
like$ adj having the qualities of childlike
ling$ noun smaller, younger, cuter or weaker version of the noun root OR sharing an identity or quality of the noun root (e.g. as a follower) darling, duckling, earthling, sapling
ly$ adj -like, having the attributes of brother|brotherly, state|stately, month|monthly
ly$ adv -like, having the attributes of
  • active|actively, helpful|helpfully, quick|quickly, clear|clearly
  • invariable|invariably
  • ly$|adv|base|$|adj|base
  • ly$|adv|base|le$|adj|base
man$ noun person fireman, statesman
mancy$ noun divination by crystallomancy, bibliomancy, necromancy
mania$ noun an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action kleptomania, megalomania, mythomania
ment$ noun a substance, abstract noun
  • treat|treatment, retire|retirement
  • judge|judgment, move|movement, amaze|amazement
  • ment$|noun|base|$|verb|base
meter$ noun measuring device
  • thermometry|thermometer
  • barometer
  • meter$|noun|base|metry$|noun|base
metry$ noun measure symmetry, geometry, isometry
mony$ noun   testimony, ceremony
morphism$ noun form isomorphism, homomorphism
most$ adj   utmost, innermost
ness$ noun abstract noun
  • one|oneness, clam|clamness, sad|sadness, kind|kindness, ruthless|ruthlessness, dark|darkness
  • ness$|noun|base|$|adj|base
nik$ noun Slavic origin; corresponds to "-er" otkaznik, beatnik
ocracy$ noun system of government kakistocracy, democracy, androcracy
ogram$ noun writing, description ideogram
ography$ noun study of stenography, geography, photography
oid$ adj resembling android, solenoid, hominoid
oid$ noun resembling planetoid
ologist$ noun one who studies a scientific subject archaeologist
ology$ study, science   biology, psychology, planetology
oma$ noun a tumor, a growthfiber|fibroma
ome$ noun subject of an "-omics" genome
omics$ noun study of rules proteomics, economics
onomy$ noun knowledge of astronomy
onym$ noun name, word antonym, consonym, heteronym
opsy$ noun examination autopsy, biopsy
or$ noun one who, person (see er$)
  • act|actor, govern|governor, edit|editor, conduct|conductor
  • sense|sensor, fact|factor ?
  • or$|noun|base|$|verb|base
  • or$|noun|base|e$|verb|base
or$, -our$ noun   candor, fervour, color
ory$ adj pertaining to, verb + ing (see ary$) auditor|auditory, sensor|sensory
ory$ noun a place wheredormitory, historic|history, repositor|repository
ose$ adj full of, like, given to; carbohydrates, protein derivatives verbose; globose
osis$ noun process, action, formation, diseased condition
  • diagnose|diagnosis, osmose|osmosis,
  • ichthyotic|ichthyosis, psychotic|psychosis, mitotic|mitosis
  • ostosis
  • osis$|noun|base|ose$|verb|base
  • osis$|noun|base|otic$|adj|base
ous$ adj VERB + ing
  • porosity|porous
  • cancer|cancerous
  • analogy|analogous
  • dolorousness|dolorous, disaster|disastrous, nerve|nervous
  • osity$|noun|base|ous$|adj|base
  • ous$|adj|base|$|noun|base
  • ous$|adj|base|y$|noun|base
phagy$, phagia$ noun eating monophagy
philia$ noun attraction hemophilia
phobia$ noun fear acrophobia, mysophobia
phone$ noun, adj sound, audio; speaker of a language telephone, homophone; Anglophone
physeal$ adj  
  • diaphyseal|diaphysis, physeal|physis
  • physeal$|adj|base|physis$|noun|base
phyte$ noun plant, used in botany to create terms which categorise plants based on their life-history, growth-form or ecological preferences therophyte, halophyte
polis$ noun referring to city or big area Metropolis, Indianapolis
s$ noun a thing, a substancepatho|pathos
science$ noun knowing omniscience, prescience, conscience
scope$ noun from Greek skopos, view; instrument for viewing and observing spaces microscope, telescope, kaleidoscope, periscope
script$ noun written manuscript, transcript
ship$ noun abstract noun, state of being friendship, relationship, dictatorship
sion$ noun noun that has been altered from a process
  • provide|provision, decide|decision, persuade|persuasion, divide|division
  • diffuse|diffusion, illuse|illusion
  • divert|diversion
  • obsess|obsession
  • sion$|noun|base|de$|verb|base
  • sion$|noun|base|se$|verb|base
  • sion$|noun|base|t$|verb|base
  • ssion$|noun|base|ss$|verb|base
sis$ noun an act of, a state of, the result of
  • aseptic|asepsis
  • gene|genesis
  • sis$|noun|base|tic$|adj|base
some$ adj   tiresome, awesome, fulsome
stan$ noun land, country Afghanistan
ster$ noun person youngster, gangster
t$ adj   burnt, spoilt
th$, eth$ adj ordinal number tenth, millionth, twentieth
th$ noun forming a noun growth, health, depth, strength
tion$ noun noun that has been altered from a process evaporation, introduction
tom$, tome$ noun part or segment dermatome
tropism$ noun to turn phototropism
ty$ noun   certainty, loyalty
uary$ noun   sanctuary, mortuary
ular$ adj  
  • table|tabular
  • nebula|nebular
  • ular$|adj|base|le$|noun|base
  • ular$|adj|base|ula$|noun|base
ulent$ adj   turbulent, fraudulent
um$ noun a thing, a substancealbum
uous$ adj   tempestuous, unctuous, sensuous
ure$ noun a thing, a substance, one that is related tfail|failure, expose|exposure, natural|nature, temperature
us$ noun inflammation ulcus
ville$ noun city, town from French Nashville
vore$, vorous$ noun, adj to devour carnivore, herbivore
ward$, wards$ adj, adv direction southward, inward, upward
ware$ noun software hardware, software, freeware
ways$ adj   sideways, longways
wise$ adj direction clockwise, lengthwise
wright$ noun person who makes playwright, wheelwright, shipwright
y$ adj having the quality of, inclined to
  • bush|bushy, mess|messy, chew|chewy
  • bristle|bristly
  • easily|easy
  • run|runny
  • y$|adj|base|$|noun|base
  • y$|adj|base|e$|noun|base
  • ily$|adv|base|y$|adj|base
y$ noun an act of, a state of, the result of
  • abundance|abundancy
  • biologic|biology, jealous|jealousy, victor|victory
  • y$|noun|base|e$|noun|base
y$ verb  
  • clarify|clarification, apply|application, certify|certification
  • y$|verb|base|ication$|noun|base

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