1. of, relating to, or being a postfix; occurring or placed after a root word or stem
Usage: linguistics; technical

Examples

• The postfixal element '-ing' transforms verbs into gerunds.
• In linguistics, postfixal morphemes are attached to the end of a word root.
• The suffix '-ness' is a postfixal affix that creates nouns from adjectives.
• Postfixal affixes are common in English word formation.
• The study of postfixal structures helps explain how languages build complex words.