WORD

FORMATION

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Suffixes

Additional examples
INTRUSIVE
affecting someone in a way that
annoys them and makes them
feel uncomfortable
Planning permission was refused
on the grounds that the proposed
building would be ‘visually
intrusive’.
INTRUDE
Sorry to intrude, but I wanted to
make sure that this got to your
attention.
INTRUSIVELY
The writing is so intrusively
awful that the mind rebels
against it.
Words that share the same root
- intrusion
- intruder
INTRUSIVENESS
- non-intrusive
Advertisers may think that
intrusiveness gets attention, but - unintrusive
research suggests otherwise.
NB intrusiveness ≠ intrusion.
EXHAUSTIVE
complete and including
everything; opposite-
superficial.
This conclusion results from
exhaustive tests involving all
possible materials.
EXHAUST
We seem to have exhausted this
topic of conversation (= we have
nothing new to say about it).
EXHAUSTIVELY
Scientists have studied those
rocks exhaustively for more
than three decades.
Words that share the same root
- non-exhaustive
- exhausted/ing
EXHAUSTIVENESS - exhaustion
- (in)exhaustible
The book appears to aim for
exhaustiveness, when it would
- exhaustibility
benefit from creating patterns - exhaustless
that evoke an idea.
APPREHENSIVE
feeling worried about
something that you are going to
do or that is going to happen.
We’re all apprehensive about
tomorrow’s meeting.
APPREHEND
He admitted that some people
had left the city some time back
apprehending communal
violence, but there is no such fear
now.’
NB the verb APPREHEND in the meaning of
anticipating smth with fear sounds archaic.
APPREHENSIVELY
He has to be double-handcuffed
when they apprehensively allow
him out of his cell.
Words that share the same root
- apprehension (may be used
instead of apprehensiveness when
APPREHENSIVENESS talking about anxiety, prediction,
uncertainty)
Many people in society today
judge these types of technological
developments out of - apprehensible
apprehensiveness and
misconception.
EVOCATIVE
making you remember or
imagine something pleasant,
The characters are simplified, and
even the evocative descriptions
would be unlikely to swing an
editor in its favor.
EVOKE
On seeing the picture, it evoked
pleasant memories of times spent
at school in the past.
EVOCATIVELY
The film evocatively charts a
time and place where change has
been a long time coming.
Words that share the same root
- evocation
The vivid evocation of the beach made me
EVOCATIVENESS feel like I was actually laying on the shore.
- non-evocative
The concision and
evocativeness of these poems,
identical in form with the tanka,
are close to the ideals of later
Japanese poetry.
PROSPECTIVE
expected or expecting to be
the specified thing in the future.
We've had three sets of
prospective buyers looking at
the house.
PROSPECT (v)
search for; seek.
Many charities are prospecting
for new donors.
PROSPECTIVELY
do smth in order to discover
what is likely to happen in the
future.
He has been prospectively
studying his patients since 1997. Words that share the same root
- prospectless
The new American Dream is
PROSPECT (n) unattainable in this prospectless
and corrupt society.
It is not a prospect which he
anticipates with much
enthusiasm.
REMUNERATIVE
Remunerative work is work that
you are paid for; synonyms-
lucrative, profitable

She is having a hard time finding

Words that share the same root
remunerative work and getting
on a career track.
- unremunerative

unremunerative research work;

REMUNERATE
The amount of money a worker is
remunerated for carrying out
specific tasks has more to do with
market conditions than the
performance of the person in
that role.
REMUNERATION a tough and unremunerative
occupation
The lack of remuneration for his
new role was a source of much
displeasure.
PROHIBITIVE PROHIBITIVELY
if the cost of something is
prohibitive, it is too expensive
The cost of dental treatment for
for most people.
those without a medical card is
prohibitively high.
Hotel prices in the major cities Words that share the same root
are high but not prohibitive.
- prohibition

-prohibitory
PROHIBIT
- prohibitionist
to prevent something by
making it impossible

The loudness of the music

prohibits serious conversation in
most nightclubs.
INSTRUCTIVE INSTRUCTIVELY
giving useful or interesting
information They instructively discussed the
history of labour relations.
The parallels between the Great
Depression and now are
Words that share the same root
instructive, if inexact.

- uninstructive

a vague and uninstructive text;

INSTRUCT INSTRUCTIVENESS an uninstructive comparison

Employees will be instructed on His latest article has the - uninstructively

the use of the new invoicing instructiveness of a "Sesame
system that is being introduced Street" spelling lesson. Fun but
next month. mostly useless.