Common Suffixes List

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SUFFIX	MEANING	EXAMPLE
able	capable of	capable, attainable
ac	pertaining to	insomniac, cardiac
acy	state or quality of	democracy, lunacy
age	state or act of	portage, dotage
al	relating to	nasal, rebuttal
an	relating to	plebeian, historian
ana	pertaining to a collection	Americana, Mozartiana
ance	state or quality of	distance, sustenance
ancy	state or quality of	dormancy, hesitancy
ant	quality of	dormant, defiant
ar	one who	beggar, scholar
arium	a place for something	aquarium, planetarium
ary	related to	elementary, honorary
ary	a place for something	granary, library
ate	to cause	educate, exonerate
ate	office	decorate, delegate
ation	cause or act of causing	decoration, delegation
cle	diminutive (small size)	follicle, article
cule, culus	diminutive	molecule, musculus
cy	state or quality of	dormancy, solvency
cy	office	presidency, captaincy
ee	one who receives an action	employee, payee
eer	one who	privateer, mutineer
el	diminutive	carrel, model
en	constructed of	wooden, woolen
en	to make	widen, shorten, fasten
ence	state or quality of	affluence, diffidence, equivalence
ency	state or quality of	fluency, currency
ent	quality of	negligent, indolent
er	one who, that which	maker, answer, rubber
er	more (comparative)	easier, faster
esce	to begin to be	convalesce, phosphoresce
escent	beginning to be, one who	pubescent, adolescent
escence	state of beginning to be	adolescence, senescence
esque	resembling, in particular style	picturesque, burlesque
ess	female performer of action	actress, goddess
est	most(superlative)	finest, quickest
et, ette	diminutive	cigarette, banquette
eur	one who	poseur, amateur
fy	to make or do	magnify, beautify, putrefy
ial	concerning	facial, sacrificial, judicial
ian	belonging to	Armenian, Bulgarian
ible	capable of	discernible, terrible
ic	state or quality of	Hispanic, Homeric
ic	concerning, characterized by	altruistic, dogmatic, cosmic
ical	related to, characterized by	economical, physical
ice	state or quality of	avarice, novice
ier	one who	grenadier, frontier
ile	characterized by, resembling	tactile, servile
ine	resembling, characterized by	feline, pristine
ion	state of, act of	confusion, creation
ish	resembling	childish, foolish
ism	state of being, doctrine	communism, heroism
ist	one who	racist, realist
ite	native of	Hittite, Israelite
itis	inflammation	hepatitis, conjunctivitis
ive	characterized by	superlative, native
ize	to do or make	energize, baptize
ly	resembling	homely, motherly
ment	state, result of making	abandonment, fragment
mony	result	hegemony, matrimony
ness	state or quality of	happiness, tenderness
oid	resembling	anthropoid, trapezoid
or	one who	doctor, censor
or	state of	humor, languor
orium	a place for something	auditorium, crematorium
ory	a place for something	lavatory, dormitory
ory	characterized by	promissory, satisfactory
ose	full of, like	grandiose, morose
osis	state of, disease	hypnosis, neurosis
ous	filled with	contemptuous, nervous
ry	quality, condition	rivalry, thievery
tion	state or result of	condition, admiration
tude	quality of	longitude, altitude, aptitude
ty	state of	quality, humidity
ure	result of, condition, organization	verdure, exposure, nature, pressure

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