Suffix Meaning Usage

capable of portable - able to be carried

able, ible
(adjective suffix) legible - able to be read

cardiac - pertaining to heart

ac, ic like, pertaining to
aquatic - pertaining to water

audacious - full of daring,

acious, icious full of avaricious - full of greed

maniacal - insane
al pertaining to portal - doorway
logical - pertaining to logic

eloquent - pertaining to fluid,

ant, ent full of effective speech.
verdant - green

dictionary - book connected

with words
ary like, connected with
honorary - connected with
honor

to make consecrate - to make holy

ate
(verb suffix) mitigate - make less severe

that which is irritation - that which is

ation
(noun suffix) irritated

democracy - ruled by people

state of being
cy obstinacy - obstinate state,
(noun suffix)
stubbornness

mountaineer - person who climbs

person who mountains
eer, er, or teacher - one who teaches
(noun suffix)
advisor - person who advises

becoming evanescent - tending to vanish

escent
(adjective suffix) pubescent - arriving at puberty

fantastic - arousing great

making, doing
fic wonder
(adjective suffix)
terrific - arousing great fear

fy to make (verb suffix) magnify - to enlarge

 petrify - turn to stone

producing, bearing pestiferous - carrying disease

iferous
(adjective suffix) vociferous - having a loud voice

pertaining to, capable of civil - polite

il, ile
(adjective suffix) docile - easily taught or led

doctrine, belief monotheism - belief in one God

ism
(noun suffix) socialism - kind of governance

dealer, doer realist - one who is realistic

ist
(noun suffix) dentist - deals with teeth

state of being
ity sagacity - state of being wise
(noun suffix)

quantitative - concerned with

ive like (adjective suffix)
number or volume

harmonize - make harmonious

to make
ize, ise revolutionize - make
(verb suffix)
revolutionary

ovoid - like an egg

resembling, like
oid anthropoid - resembling a
(adjective suffix)
human

full of
ose verbose - full of words
(adjective suffix)

psychosis - diseased mental condition

osis condition (noun suffix)
hypnosis - induced sleep

nauseous - full of nausea

ous full of (adjective suffix)
ludicrous - foolish

fortitude - state of strength

tude state of (noun suffix)
certitude - state of certainty