IPage 2
- English Word -ish Definition A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.
- English Word -ish Definition A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white.
- English Word -ism Definition A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.
- English Word -ist Definition A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.
- English Word -ite Definition A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, from nitrous acid, etc.
- English Word -ite Definition A suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its use in writing.
- English Word -ite Definition A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.
- English Word -itis Definition A suffix used in medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis; bronchitis, phrenitis.
- English Word -ive Definition An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.
- English Word -ize Definition A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.
- English Word I Definition In our old authors, I was often used for ay (or aye), yes, which is pronounced nearly like it.
- English Word I Definition As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc.
- English Word I Definition The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.
- English Word I O U Definition A paper having on it these letters, with a sum named, and duly signed; -- in use in England as an acknowledgment of a debt, and taken as evidence thereof, but not amounting to a promissory note; a due bill.
- English Word I' faith Definition In faith; indeed; truly.
- English Word I' ll Definition Contraction for I will or I shall.
- English Word I'd Definition A contraction from I would or I had.
- English Word I'm Definition A contraction of I am.
- English Word I've Definition Colloquial contraction of I have.
- English Word I- Definition See Y-.