unicycle - a vehicle with one wheel; unilateral - decided by only one person or nation; unique - the only one of its kind; unison - as one voice. quarter - one fourth; quart - a fourth of a gallon; quartet - a musical composition or group involving 4 voices or instruments. nondescript - with no special characteristics; nonfiction - true, real, not made-up; nonsense - without sense. extraordinary - beyond ordinary; extraterrestrial - outside the Earth; extrovert - an outgoing person. veracious - truthful, honest; veracity - the truth; verify - to make sure that something is true. activity - something that a person does; react - to do something in response; interaction - communication between two or more things, aerate - to let air reach something; aerial - relating to the air; aerospace - the air space, agriculture - management of the land, agribusiness - making money by utilizing land; agrarian - relating to the management of land, neuralgia - pain caused by a nerve; analgesic - a drug that makes one pain free; nostalgia - aching for the familiar, ambidextrous - able to use both hands equally; ambiguous - having more than one meaning; ambivalence - conflicting or opposite feelings toward a person or thing, amble - to walk in a slow, relaxed way; ambulant - walking or moving around; ambulance - a vehicle that moves a patient, amiable - friendly, pleasant, lovable; amity - friendly and peaceful relations; amorous - showing romantic love, analysis - a close examination of something; anatomy - the structure of something as visible when cut up for analysis; anachronism - not being in the right place in time, androgynous - being both male and female; android - resembling a human; misandry - hatred towards men, animal - a living organism; animate - to make alive; equanimity - of balanced spirit, anniversary - a date observed once a year; annual - happening once a year; millennium - 1,000 years, antecede - to come before something in time; antemeridian - before noon; anteroom- a small room before the main room. oxymoron - combining two ideas that sharply contradict each other; oxidize - corrode a surface. immortal - living forever, unable to die; mortal - certain to die; mortician - an undertaker. geriatrics - medicine pertaining to the elderly; gerontocracy - the rule of the elders; gerontology - the science of aging. Dis- (opposite or not) disappear — to do the opposite of appear; to vanish. Thus, examples of re- plus a noun base (such as the ungrammatical *rehusband, *remonopoly) or re- plus an adjective base (*renatural, *rewise) are virtually unattested.[1]. audiometer- an instrument that measures hearing acuteness; chronometer- an instrument that measures time; metric - measured. ; progress - movement forward or onward; gradual - step by step. These word types are often known as neo-classical (or neo-Latin) words and are often found in academic learned vocabulary domains (such as in science fields), as well as in inkhorn terms coined in the 17th and 18th centuries. For example, the word “unhappy” consists of the prefix “un-” [which means “not”] combined with the root (or stem) word “happy”; the word “unhappy” means “not happy.” A short list of prefixes: heterogeneous - made up of unrelated parts; heteronyms - words with same spelling but different meanings; heterodox - not conforming to traditional beliefs. bilateral - of or involving two sides; unilateral - affecting one side of something. inspire - to stimulate or animate; transpire - to give of vapor with waste product through the skin or a membrane; spirit - invisible life force. Thus, the word do, consisting of a single morpheme, is a verb as is the word redo, which consists of the prefix re- and the base root do. epiphyte - a plant growing independently on the surface of another; hydrophyte - a plant that grows only in water; neophyte - a beginner, especially a person recently converted to a new belief. metaphysics - study of nature and reality; metamorphosis - a complete change of form; metastasis - the transmission of disease to other parts of the body. accelerate - to increase the speed of; accessible - easily entered, approached, or obtained; admittance - allowing into; acrobat - a "high walker"; acronym - a word formed from the first (capital) letters of a word; acrophobia - fear of height, perceive - to take notice of something; captivating - taking hold of, cauterize - to burn with a hot instrument; caustic - capable of burning or eating away; holocaust - total devastation, especially by fire. Mesoamerica - Middle America; meson - elementary particle with a mass between an electron and a proton. microscope - a device used to see tiny things; periscope - a seeing instrument on a submarine; telescope - a device used to see over a distance. 10 Examples of Prefixes, prefixes in english, english prefixes list, definitions and example sentences; Sub- Definition: under Example Sentence: He has never seen a blue submarine in the my life. en- creates transitive verbs from noun bases: slave (noun) > enslave (verb). epidemic - the rapid spread of something negative; epilogue - a short speech delivered after a play; epicenter - the center of an earthquake. Word Stems. esthetician - someone who beautifies; aesthetic - pertaining to a sense of beauty; kinesthesia - the sensation of bodily movement. retroactive - relating to something in the past; retrogress - to go back to an earlier condition; retrospect - the remembering of past events. conformity- correspondence in form, manner, or character; formation- something that is formed; reformatory- intended for reformation. Native vs. non-native (neo-classical) prefixing, Occasionally, these selectional restrictions are violated for stylist effect, as in the coinage of the word, Marchand's (1969:5-6) argumentation: "Bearing in mind the bi-morphemic, i.e. heptagon - a shape with seven angles and seven sides; Heptateuch - the first seven books of the Old Testament; heptameter - a line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet. export - to carry goods out of a place to another; portable - able to be carried; porter - a person who carries luggage. It is possible to detect varying degrees of foreignness.[2]. linguist - one who studies languages; multilingual - able to communicate in multiple languages; linguine - long, flat "tongue-shaped" pasta. lexicology - the study and history of words; alexia -loss of the ability to read; illegal - not authorized by the official rules or laws. misbehave - to behave badly; misprint - an error in printing; misnomer - an error in naming a person or thing. An example of such a now native English prefix is co- as in co-worker, which is ultimately derived from the Latin prefix com- (with its allomorphs co-, col-, con-, and cor-); and ex- as in ex-soldier, which derives from the Latin ex-. liberate - to set free; libertine - a person with a free, wild lifestyle; liberty - freedom. English prefixes are affixes (i.e., bound morphemes that provide lexical meaning) that are added before either simple roots or complex bases (or operands) consisting of (a) a root and other affixes, (b) multiple roots, or (c) multiple roots and other affixes. secede - to formally break away from; seclude - to keep away from; serum - a liquid isolated out of another. So we have ‘synthesis’ originally from Gre… from English … A prefix, which comes before a root word, or suffix, which comes after, may be used to change the tenses of a word. digression - a departure from the main issue, subject; disappear - to move out of sight; dissect - to cut apart piece by piece. // < ! unkill, unspend, unlose, unring. arteriosclerosis - hardening of the arterial walls; multiple sclerosis - disease which causes the tissue of the brain and spinal cord to harden; sclerometer - instrument for measuring hardness. hyperactive - very restless; hypercritical - too critical; hypertension - above normal pressure. granary- a storehouse or repository for grain especially after it is threshed or husked; granola- a mixture of rolled oats and other ingredients; granule- a little grain (as of sugar). A prefix is affix that's added in front of a word and often changes the meaning of it. technology - the practical application of knowledge; technocracy - rule of technology; technologically - characterized by technology. quintett - a composition for 5 voices or instruments; quintessence - pure essence, based on the ancient philosophy that there was a fifth element that was present in all things; quintuple - fivefold. rhinoceros - a species of animals with a big horn on the snout; rhinoplasty - surgery of the nose; rhinovirus - viruses that are causing the common cold. judgment - a decision of a court of law; judicial - having to do with judges or courts of law; judiciary - a system of courts of law. protoplasm - something that is the first made or formed, also the living portion of a cell; plastic - able to be formed, especially when warm; plaster - a mixture of lime, sand and water that forms a smooth solid covering for walls. Unlike derivational suffixes, English derivational prefixes typically do not change the lexical category of the base (and are so called class-maintaining prefixes). circumvent - to go around or bypass restrictions; convention - a gathering or assembly of people with a common interest; intervene - to come between. apatite - a group of common minerals; granite - a hard, granular rock; monolith - a remarkable, unique stone. confusion - being flooded with too much information that is hard to make sense of; fuse - to melt by heating; infuse - to put into. chrysanthemum and amaranth - names of flowers; anthology - a collection of treasured writings; anthozoan - half plant, half animal, like anemones and corals. Examples of these follow: English words may consist of multiple prefixes: anti-pseudo-classicism (containing both an anti- prefix and a pseudo- prefix). deposit - to place or drop something; expose to place out into the open for all to see; position - the place where someone is. We search a large scrabble dictionary for scrabble words starting with do - we take the letter or word you enter, and generate all words starting with Do. metropolis - a large city; police - people who work for the government to maintain order in a city; politics - actions of a government or political party. monotheism - belief in one god; polytheism - worshiping more than one god; theology - the study of religion, god, etc. The word itself is not an prefix However, it does have a prefix The prefix is -less. maneuver - to move by hand; manual - done with the hands; manuscript - a book written by hand. kilobyte - 1,000 bytes; kilometer - 1,000 meter; kilograms - 1,000 grams. Examples: Interestingly enough, the word prefix itself contains the prefix "pre-," which means before, and the root word fix, which means to fasten or place; thus the word itself means "to place before." immerge or immerse - to put or dip something into a liquid; submerge to dip something completely into wate.r. medieval - pertaining to the Middle Ages; medium - in the middle; mediocre - only of medium (inferior) quality. solar - involving the sun; parasol - umbrella protecting from the sun; solarium - a room where one is exposed to sun light. In, This page was last edited on 13 December 2020, at 22:21. hypoglycemia - an abnormally low level of sugar in the blood; hypothermia - abnormally low body temperature; hypothesis - a theory that is unproven but used under the assumption that it is true. dyspepsia - abnormal digestion; peptic - aiding digestion; pepsin - a digestive enzyme. judgment - a decision of a court of law; judicial - having to do with judges or courts of law; judiciary - a system of courts of law. In particular, using verbs describing an irreversible action produces words often considered nonsense, e.g. maternal - relating to motherhood; maternity - the state of being a mother; matriarch - a woman head of a household. tetrapod - having 4 legs; tetrarchy - government by 4 rulers; tetrose - a monosaccharide with four carbon atoms. equidistant - an equal distance from two points; equanimity - calm temperament, evenness of temper; equation - a statement of equality. However, there are a few prefixes in English that are class-changing in that the word resulting after prefixation belongs to a lexical category that is different from the lexical category of the base. dynamo - a generator of energy; dynamic - having physical energy/power; dynamite - a powerful explosive. hemorrhage - clotting of the blood; hemorrhoids - swelling of the blood vessels; hemoglobin - red blood particle. parasite - an organism that lives on and off another living being; parallel - alongside and always an equal distance apart; paragraph - a portion of a writtenn document that presents a distinct idea. This word has the following internal structure: In the second unlockable "able to be unlocked", the prefix un- "reverse action" is attached to a verb base lock, resulting in the derived verb unlock. dissect - to cut apart piece by piece; intersection - the place or point where two things cross each other; bisect - to cut into two equal parts. (Click here to go straight to the prefix list and save the explanations for later and herefor links to more prefix examples and practice.) pugnacious - having a quarrelsome or aggressive nature; repugnant - distasteful, offensive or revolting; pungent - piercing. eloquent - speaking beautifully and forcefully ; loquacious - very talkative; elocution - art of public speaking. [4] Similarly, pairs such as defend/defense and double (or duple)/duplicity are not considered morphologically related in Marchand's treatment of English word formation and are thus excluded too, though they are regarded as derivatives of the shared roots in Jespersen's and Koizul's, while in others, they may be seen as allomorphs or variants (like deep/depth, a pair formed of Germanic components). The following table lists common prefixes and their meanings and lists example words to help you understand what these prefixes do to words. myocardium - the middle muscle of the heart; myasthenia - muscle fatigue or weakness; myosin - common protein in muscle tissue. optimal - the best, the most desirable; optimize - to make the best of; optimum - the best something could be. immigrant - a person who moves to a new country to settle; migrant - person who moves from place to place; migration - the process of moving. esophagus - muscular tube that carries food to the stomach; anthropophagy or sarcophagy - cannibalism; xylophagous - feeding on wood. Subsequently, the -able suffix is added after the newly created unlock adjective base deriving the adjective unlockable. thermal - relating to heat; thermos - an insulated jar that keeps heat in; thermostat - a device that controls heat. negate - to say it didn't happen; negative - meaning "no"; renege - to go back on a promise. For example, the word prefix itself begins with the prefix pre- , which generally means "before" or "in front of." isobar - a line on a map connecting points of equal barometric pressure; isometric - having equality of measure; isothermal - having equal or constant temperature. A list of prefixes, starting with the letters A to J, defined in Suffix Prefix Dictionary. narrate - to tell a story; narrative - a story; narrator - a person who tells a story. Look at the three prefixes we learned in combination with this stem “ voc.”. juvenile - youthful or childish; rejuvenate - to bring back to youthful strength or appearance. Several English words are analyzed as a combination of a dependent affix and an independent base, such as those found in words like boy-hood or un-just. bankrupt - unable to pay because you're "broke"; interrupt - to break into a conversation or event, to disturb; rupture - a break in something. two-sign character of derivatives and the ensuing opposability of both elements, it seems a little embarrassing to revert to the topic of the analysis of, The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, "Inter- vs Intra- Everything After Z by Dictionary.com", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_prefix&oldid=994058705, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, verb > predicative adjective with progressive aspect, anti-freeze, antivirus, anticlimax, Antichrist, behind an object/structure (locative/directional), equipped with, covered with, beset with (pejorative or facetious), ex-husband, ex-boss, ex-colleague, ex-friend, misinformation, misguide, misfortune, misbehave, misspell, stepbrother, stepmother, stepfather, stepsister, unnecessary, unequal, undesirable, unhappy, below, beneath, lower in grade or dignity, lesser, insufficient, underachieve, underpass, understand, undergo, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-American, ruling, dominating, most extreme (pejorative), bicycle, biped, bisexual, binomial, bigamy, circumlocution, circumnavigate, circumference, cohabit, colleague, commingle, confederation, correlation, exit, expel, explode, exploit, explore, export, Francophile, Franco-British, Franco-German, homogeneous, homogenize, homologous, homophone, homozygous, illegal, illicit, impatient, impossible, inappropriate, inexact, irregular, irresponsible, monogamy, monotone, monosyllabic, monomial, monobrow, through, completely, wrongly, exceedingly, photoelectric, photography, photosynthesis, predict, prepare, preview, preschool, prewrite, prefix, partly, almost, appearing to be but not really, submarine, subterranean, suburban, support, telegraph, telephone, telescope, television, transatlantic, transverse, transform, transgender, tricycle, tripartite, triangle, tricolor, trinomial, vice-president, vice-principal, vice-admiral. hemicycle - a semicircular structure; hemisphere - one half of the earth; hemistich - half a line of poetry. conduct - to lead musicians in playing music; educate - to lead to knowledge; deduction - a subtraction of an amount. metamorphosis - complete change of form; endorphins - chemical in the brain able to transform pain; amorphous - without distinct shape or form. For example, the prefix un- (or u … For example: hexagon - a shape with six angles/sides; hexameter - a verse measured in six; hexapod - having six legs. Un is a prefix meaning not.It's used to give opposite and negative meanings to adjectives, adverbs and nouns. For example, when the prefix un-is added to the word happy, it creates the word unhappy.Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the words to which it is affixed. xerophyte - a plant that grows in dry climate; xerography - a dry photocopying process; xeric - requiring small amounts of moisture. optic - relating to the eyes; optician - a person who fits eyeglasses; autopsy - the examination of a dead body. biosphere - the whole round surface of the earth; hemisphere - half the earth spherically shaped like a ball. philosopher - a wise person; sophisticated - wise about the ways of the world; sophism - a clever but misleading argument. pneumonia - inflammation of the lungs; pneumatic - using the force of air; dyspnea - difficulty breathing. Examples of this type include a-, be-, and en-. transcontinental - across the continent; transfer - to move from one place to another; transport - to carry something across a space. ergonomics - study of the working environment; energy - the power to accomplish work; energetics - science that looks at energy and its transformation. dismiss - to send someone away; missile - a weapon sent into the air; emit - to send something out; admittance - entry. These words may nevertheless be in occasional use for humorous or other effect. revival - the act of bringing back to life; vital - pertaining to live; vivacious - high-spirited and full of life. illuminate - to give light to; innovation - a new idea, method, or device; inspection - the act of examining or reviewing. contortion - a twisted shape or position; distort - to alter the shape or condition of; retort - reply in a manner that is supposed to change the effect of something previously said. parachute - protection from falling; parasol - an umbrella used to protect from the sun; paternal - relating to fathers; paternity - fatherhood; patriarch - a man who rules a group. ad, a, ac, af, ag, an, ar, at, as. popular - appealing to a lot of people; population - all of the people who live in a particular area; populist - a supporter of the rights of people. gigabyte - unit of computer storage space; gigahertz - unit of frequency (one billion Hz/sec); gigawatt unit of electric power (one billion watts). Prefixes are added to the beginning of an existing word in order to create a new word with a different meaning. decagon - a polygon with 10 angles; diagonal - a slanting line running across a space; octagon - a geometrical figure with 8 angles. Then they can write the words they create. kinetics - study of the force of motion; psychokinesis or telekinesis - the ability to move objects with your mind; cinematography - motion picture making. paleontology - study of ancient fossils; paleography - the study of ancient forms of writing; Paleolithic - period of the Stone Age. One may come from Latin and one from Greek. Similar to the previous activity, you can write base words, prefixes and suffixes on LEGOs. submarine - an underwater boat; submerge - to put underwater; substandard - inferior to accepted standards. cacophony - loud, unpleasant sounds; microphone - a device that records and amplifies sound; phonetic - relating to human speech sounds. Build a Word With LEGOs. dislocate - to put something out of its usual place; location - a place; relocate - to move to a new place. [CDATA[ detoxification - the process of removing poisons; toxic - poisonous; toxicology - the study of poisons; intoxicated - influenced by drugs. gynecology - the science of female reproductive health; gynephobia - fear of women; gynecoid - resembling a woman. Do ship names get italicized? Graphology - the study of handwritings; autograph - written with one's own hand; seismograph - a machine noting strength and duration of earthquakes. command - an order or instruction; demand - a hard-to-ignore order; mandate - an official order. 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