Suffixes-Jun 7

Write as many adjectives as you can think of using these suffixes.

-al  connected with: national, optional, continual, educational, historical, economical, musical, artificial, personal, cultural, emotional, additional, seasonal, financial

-ic  connected with: scenic, economic, historic, academic, artistic, athletic, Arabic

-ous  having the nature or quality of: continuous, dangerous, mountainous, mysterious, enormous

-ish  having the nature of (disapproving): childish, foolish, boyish         

        from the country: Turkish, Irish

-ful  full of, having the quality of: beautiful, wonderful, meaningful, peaceful, powerful,

-ive: tending to, having a nature of: explosive, effective, descriptive, expensive

-able/ible  that can or must be: taxable, usable, recyclable, rechargeable, disposable, thinkable, convertible, having the quality of: fashionable, comfortable, changeable,

-y  full of, having the quality of: dusty, crazy, scary, funny, pinky, yummy              

      tending to: sticky, itchy, icy, rainy

-ly  having the quality of: friendly, cowardly, hilly, lively