Suffixes and prefixes
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The document discusses prefixes and suffixes related to concepts like trust, joy, fear, gratitude, and thankfulness. It provides examples of how prefixes like un-, non-, over-, self-, quasi- can modify these root words and change their meaning. Suffixes like -ness, -ful, -less, -ly are also discussed as ways to derive nouns and adjectives from root words. The definitions of thankful, thankless, and ungrateful are included at the end.
Suffixes and prefixes
- 1. SUFFIXES ness Happy Noun er Ability able happier Happiness Joy truster ness Grateful Noun er trustability Ability ness Happiest Noun er Ability able able noun less Joyfuly trustworthy Adjective ful Er Adverb est Adjective ful Er sadder ness angrier ness saddest Fearful ness fearer angry est angriest adverb ly noun ness Joyless worthy joylessly Joylessness trustless trustlessly Trustlessnees Happily joyful ness fearful Angriness ly trustable Sadness Fear Anger est Thankfulness Gratefulness Ness Sad Adverb Joyful Trust Thankful Adjective ful Er ly Thankfully Gratefully noun less adverb Ly noun ness Thankless Thanklessly Thanklessness Per esprimere la mancanza di gratitudine si usa un al posto di less. adverb ly worthy noun less adverb Ly Noun Ness sadly fearfully fearless fearlessly Fearlessness angrily angerless
- 2. PREFEXES Super Over Well welltrusted Self Selftrust Overjoyful Overjoyfully Overjoyfullness Selfearing Overgratitude Overgrateful Overgratefully Overgratefulness Superthankful Superthankfully Superthankfulness Quasi Trust Joy Fear Gratitude Grateful Quasigrateful Quasigratefully Thankful Thank Un Untrusted Non nontrust Unfearing Ungratitude Ungrateful Ungratefully Ungratefulness Unthankful Unthankfully Unthankfulness Unthanked Unthanking thank·fuladjectivefeeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative. thank·lessadjectivenot feeling orexpressing gratitude or appreciation; ungrateful: a thanklesschild. un·grate·fuladjectiveunappreciative;notdisplayinggratitude; not giving due return or recompense forbenefitsconferred:ungratefulheirs.