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IDIO |
Prefix meaning |
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NEO |
Prefix meaning recent |
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CONTRA |
Prefix meaning against |
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MONO |
Prefix meaning “one” |
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OCTO |
Prefix – meaning eight |
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NANO |
Prefix meaning very minuscule |
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ANGLO |
Prefix meaning of British origin |
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OCTA- |
A prefix meaning eight. See Octo-. |
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EQUI- |
A prefix, meaning equally; as, equidistant; equiangular. |
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E- |
A Latin prefix meaning out, out of, from; also, without. See Ex-. |
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TRI- |
A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored,
tridentate. |
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DEXTRO- |
A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward,
the right |
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EN- |
A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology.
See In-. |
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AMBI- |
A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from
the Latin. |
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MAGNETO- |
A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some way
connected with, magnetism. |
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COUNTER |
A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as,
counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a. |
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SYN- |
A prefix meaning with, along with, together, at the same time.
Syn- becomes sym- before p, b, and m, and syl- before l. |
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IN- |
An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as,
inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir-
before r, and im- before a labial. |
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EPI- |
A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above,
over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek
aspirate, as in ephemeral. |
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MET- |
A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about,
reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct
time; metaphor,... |
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ANTI |
A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or
in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often
shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic. |
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FOR- |
A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or
privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and
sometimes it... |
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Y- |
A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs,
adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was
little ... |
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NEO- |
A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry
designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which,
when the name was a... |
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UN- |
An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To
verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the
action of t... |