Word Meanings - SUFFIX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.

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• MODIFY
  1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
• SYLLABLE
  1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
• ADDUCT
  To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• ADDUCTION
  The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its (more info) 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.
• ADDITIVE
  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• ADDOOM
  To adjudge. Spenser.
• ADDUCIBLE
  Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• APPENDICAL
  Of or like an appendix.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• ADDERWORT
  The common bistort or snakeweed .
• APPENDIX
  1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• ADDITAMENT
  An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.
• HADDOCK
  A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
• SADDER
  See SADDA
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• RADDE
  imp. of Read, Rede. Chaucer.
• SPADDLE
  A little spade.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• WADDYWOOD
  An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies.
• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• PADDLER
  One who, or that which, paddles.
• GADDISH
  Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.