托福词汇备考：常见形容词后缀梳理

英语单词不同于中文汉字组成，大部分的英文单词都可以通过“构词法”进行拆解，即“前缀+词根+后缀”，其中词根决定单词本来的意思，前缀会对词义进行改变，而后缀则决定了单词的词性。大部分情况下，我们可以通过一个单词的后缀直接判断这个单词的词性和大致词义归类。下面我们来看一组形容词后缀。

(1) 带有“属性，倾向，相关”的含义

1)-able, -ible, movable, comfortable, applicable, visible, responsible

2)-al, natural, additional, educational

3)-an, ane, urban, suburban, republican

4)-ant, -ent, distant, important, excellent

5)-ar, similar, popular, regular

6)-ary, military, voluntary

7)-ice, -atie, ical, politic, systematic, historic, physical,

8)-ine, masculine, feminine, marine

9)-ing, moving, touching, daring

10)-ish, foolish, bookish, selfish

11)-ive, active, impressive, decisive

12)-ory, satisfactory, compulsory

13)-il, -ile, -eel, fragile, genteel(文雅的)

(2) 表示“相象，类似”的含义

1)-ish, boyish, childish

2)-esque, picturesque

3)-like, manlike, childlike

4)-ly, manly, fatherly, scholarly, motherly

5)-some, troublesome, handsome

6)-y, milky, pasty

(3) 表示“充分的”含义

1)-ful, beautiful, wonderful, helpful, truthful

2)-ous, dangerous, generous, courageous, various

3)-ent, violent,

(4) 表示由某种物质形成，制成或生产的含义

1)-en, wooden, golden, woolen

2)-ous, gaseous

3)-fic, scientific

(5) 表示方向的含义

1)-ern, eastern, western

2)-ward, downward, forward

(6) 表示“倍数”的含义

1)-ble, double, treble

2)ple, triple

3)-fold, twofold, tenfold

(7) 表示“数量关系”的含义

1)-teen, thirteen

2)-ty, fifty

3)-th, fourth, fiftieth

(8) 表示国籍，语种，宗教的含义

2)-ese, Chinese,

3)-ish, English, Spanish

(9) 表示“比较程度”的含义

1)-er, greater

2)-ish, reddish, yellowish

3)-est, highest

4)-most, foremost, topmost

(10)其他的含义

-less, 表示否定，countless, stainless, wireless