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A combining form (also used adjectively), designating:

An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amendatory, etc.

An adjective suffix meaning full of, abounding in, having, possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace; arduous, full of ardor; bulbous, having bulbs, bulblike; riotous, poisonous, piteous, joyous, etc.

A prefix, also used adjectively, designating:

A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively. [Written also panim and paynim.] Peacham.

2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and Meta-. Also used adjectively.

A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and ex…

A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

s regards quality, property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used adjectively.

rives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak.

applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.

Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.

One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.

ad over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.

The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). Bacon.

the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.

reversed, as Iceland spar, tourmaline, etc. -- Positive degree (Gram.), that state of an adjective or adverb which denotes simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as, wise, noble. -- Positive electricity (Elec), the kind of electricity which is developed when glass is rubbed with sil…

The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.

e compound has but one atom of the element to the name of which it is prefixed. Also used adjectively.