Prefixes | Meanings | Examples | Suffixes | Meanings | Examples |
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Un-: | not | unhappy (not happy) | -ful: | full of | joyful (full of joy) |
Dis-: | opposite of | dishonest (not honest) | -less: | without | hopeless (without hope) |
Re-: | again, back | revisit (visit again) | -er: | comparative | bigger |
Pre-: | before | preheat (heat before) | -est: | superlative | biggest |
Post-: | afer | postgraduate (after graduation) | -ment: | action or progress | development (process of developing) |
Co-: | together, joint | cooperate (work together) | -ness: | state of being | happiness (state of being happy) |
Mis-: | wrongly, badly | misbehave (behave badly) | -able/-ible: | capable of | acceptable (capable of being accepted) |
-ity/-ty: | quality of | responsibility (quality of being responsible) | |||
-ism: | belief or practice | capitalism (belief in the economic system of capitalism) | |||
-ize: | make or become | modernize (make modern) |
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