adjective
- having a suffix added to the end
Usage: linguistics
verb
- past tense and past participle of suffix; added a suffix to a word
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The suffixed word ‘happiness’ contains the root ‘happy’ plus the suffix ‘-ness’.
- Many English words are suffixed with ‘-ly’ to form adverbs.
- The teacher suffixed ‘-ed’ to the verb to show past tense.
- She suffixed the word with the appropriate ending.
- The suffixed forms appeared throughout the text.
- He suffixed each root word with the correct morpheme.