prefixes and suffixes

Prefixes and suffixes Prefixes are a group of letters that come at the beginning of a word and they change its meaning example happy unhappy war postwar Suffixes are a group of letters that come at the end of a word and they change its category verb - noun - adjective - adverb example child childish comfort comfortable lazy lazily generally speaking there are three types of suffixes o Verb suffixes are suffixes added to adjectives or nouns to make verbs dark adjective gt darken centre noun gt centralize o Noun suffixes are suffixes added to verbs adjectives or nouns to make nouns manage verb gt management serious adjective gt seriousness friend noun gt friendship o adjectival suffixes are suffixes added to nouns adjectives or verbs to make adjectives beauty noun gt beautiful economic adjective gteconomical excite verb gt excited NOTE a word without any prefix or suffix is called the root

List of Common prefixes Prefix Meaning Examples anti against opposed to antibiotic antiwar anti-virus antifreeze auto selfby oneself autobiography - autograph - autodidact - automatic bi two bicycle - bilingual - bilateral co with - together co-worker co-producer co-author de undo opposite action remove depress demotivate decode degenerate dis not the opposite of dislike distrust disable disagree disorganised disarm disadvantage disable disobey en cause to be or become enlarge enrich endanger enable enact il not used before a word beginning with the letter quotLquot like legal illegal illogical illicit illegitimate im not used before a word beginning with the letter quotmquot like mature or quotpquot like possible immature impossible improbable imperfect -impersonal immodest immobile in not opposite to indistinct inaccurate indecent inhuman incorrect incapable insufficient incomprehensible incomparable in in movement to insert instil inbuilt inter among between connected international inter-ship intercontinental internet ir not used before a word beginning with the letter quotrquot like rational irrational irregular irresistible irresponsible irrelevant mis wrongly badly mislead mistake misunderstand mono one having one monolingual monosyllabic multi many multicultural multilingual multimedia neo new based on something old but in a new form non not non-governmental nonsense non-essential out more to a greater extent outnumber outlive outrage outlaw over above too much overcook overheat overdo overeat overpaid poly many polyglot polyclinic polygamy post after come after postwar post-conflict post-communism post-colonialism pseudo false pseudonym pseudo-scientist pre before come before prehistoric prefix pretest predict prepare

pro in favour of pro-American pro-capitalist proactive re back do again redo rewrite rename revisit half semi half-baked halfway half-time sub under beneath submarine subject subordinate subway super above beyond superpower superman superstar tele far telephone telescope telecommunicate telescope trans across transcontinental transatlantic transfer transform un not unknown unjust unkind unsafe unable under below beneath not enough insufficient underline under-age underemployed underpaid List of Common suffixes suffixes meaning examples -able- ible liable that can be of capable of drinkable washable disposable believable responsible -ai ial has the property of personal industrial financial critical musical -ance state condition or quality acceptance inheritance performance assistance importance guidance -ant quality or state full of assistant distant important pleasant ignorant relevant tolerant -ate to make cooperate procrastinate coordinate decorate collaborate accelerate activate donate animate -ent quality or state fluent innocent prudent silent different confident -ar one who thing which from liar regular muscular solar lunar similar -ary like connected with belonging to stationary dictionary legendary imaginary necessary secondary documentary summary voluntary -dom state or condition freedom boredom wisdom -cy state or quality literacy accuracy frequency fluency democracy privacy -ed past from turned collected cooked killed -en made of adjective golden wooden -en to make verb lengthen widen shorten soften threaten

-ence quality or state reference conference residence difference violence existence competence -ent one who resident president -er one who teacher writer painter worker player -er comparative taller shorter bigger smaller faster -ful full of with hopeful painful careful joyful skilful peaceful successful harmful wonderful -hood state condition period fatherhood girlhood neighbourhood adulthood womanhood brotherhood -ic having the property of connected with heroic economic automatic periodic allergic fantastic -ify make cause clarify justify purify solidify classify simplify qualify verify identify -ion act process action prediction pollution solution addition occupation description explanation classification -ish like similar to of a nationality childish girlish mannish Spanish British foolish -ism act action behaviour doctrine tourism cubism criticism socialism journalism racism feminism heroism -ist person with specific knowledge belief or behaviour optimist typist specialist stylist socialist novelist dentist -ive connection function disposition character quality tendency inclination detective destructive impressive massive productive creative active attentive passive relative addictive -ity state quality or condition sanity ambiguity ability purity fraternity dignity -ize - ise bring about a state or condition make modernize colonize advertise summarise analyse -less without homeless childless fearless toothless sleepless jobless -ly every daily weekly monthly -ment action process enjoyment employment development movement environment agreement -ness quality state of being kindness openness darkness awareness happiness greatness -or the person who actor doctor advisor counsellor governor sailor -ory the state of being relating to satisfactory discriminatory repository contradictory compulsory -ous full of having marvellous religious famous

-ship state or experience of having a specific position leadership relationship championship citizenshipfriendship membership -y the state of having sunny rainy happy