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445 prefixes and suffixes
The following are some of the most common and useful English prefixes and suffixes.
1 prefixes
prefix mainly added to
a- adj. Anglo- adj.
ante- adj., verbs,
nouns anti- adj., nouns
arch- nouns
auto- adj., nouns
bi- adj., nouns cent(i)- nouns
co- verbs, nouns counter- adj.• verbs.
nouns cyber- nouns
de- verbs verbs
dis- adj .. verbs, nouns
verbs e- nouns
eco- adj., nouns
en- nouns adj.
Euro- adj., nouns ex- nouns extra- adj.
adj.
fore- verbs, nouns
geo- adj.• nouns hyper- adj., nouns
ill- past participles in- adj.
(im- before p) (ll- before 1) (ir- before r)
usual meaning not, without English
before
against supreme, most
self
two
hundredth together (with) against
computer, internet
reversing action take away
not, opposite
reversing action electronic,
internet environment
put in
make European former exceptionally outside before
earth extreme(ly)
badly
not, opposite
between, among
examples
amoral, asexual Anglo-American antenatal, antedate anteroom antisocial, anti-war archbishop,
arch-enemy automatic,
autobiography bilingual, bicycle centimetre, centilitre co-operate, co-pilot counteract counter-revolution(ary) cybercrime, cyberculture
defrost, deregulate deforest
disloyal, disappear disorder
disconnect, disinfect email, e-commerce,
e-book eco-friendly,
eco-tourism endanger, encircle enrich, enable Eurocentric, Europop ex-husband extra-special extra-terrestrial
foretell. foreknowledge geothermal, geophysics hypercritical,
hypertension ill-advised, ill-expressed incomplete, insensitive impossible
illegible
irregular
international.
intermarry
inter-
adj., verbs
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