Synonyms for
Suffix
Definition
A group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or form a new word.
Synonyms & similar words
Example sentences
- The suffix 'er' added to the word 'teach' makes 'teacher'.
- The suffix 'less' added to the word 'hope' makes 'hopeless'.
- The suffix 'ly' added to the word 'quick' makes 'quickly'.
- The word 'unhappy' has the prefix 'un' and the suffix 'y'.
- The suffix 'able' added to the word 'read' makes 'readable'.
Quotes
I'm a suffix, I'm not even a whole word. I'm just a bunch of letters waiting to be added to the end of someone else's word. - Jodi Picoult
A prefix is an affix that precedes the word. A suffix is an affix that follows the word. - Richard Lederer
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appals. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives, Henchard's prosperity, everything... - Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge