Formation of Adjectives
Formation of Adjectives :
We use suffixes to form adjectives from nouns, verbs or other adjectives.
Some common suffixes used are ….
able
1. advise — advisable
2. comfort — comfortable
3. favour — favourable
4. honour — honourable
5. love — lovable
6. memory — memorable
7. profit — profitable
8. value — valuable
ible
1. access - accessible
2. contempt — contemptible
3. permit — permissible
4. terror – terrible
al
1. accident — accidental
2. autumn — autumnal
3. biology — biological
4. brute — brutal
5. centre — central
6. crime — criminal
7. economy - economical
8. face - facial
9. geography - geographical
10. habit - habitual
11. herb - herbal
12. history - historical
13. machine - mechanical
ar
1. angle - angular
2. circle — circular
3. rectangle — rectangular
4. table — tabular
5. triangle — triangular
ate
1. affection - affectionate
2. compassion - compassionate
3. passion — passionate
en
1. maid - maiden
2. silk - silken
3. wood - wooden
ful
1. beauty - beautiful
2. care — careful
3. cheer - cheerful
4. duty — dutiful
5. harm - harmful
6. hope - hopeful
7. mercy - merciful
8. peace — peaceful
9. respect - respectful
10. thought — thoughtful
11. use — useful
less
1. care - careless
2. cheer — cheerless
3. harm — harmless
4. hope — hopeless
5. mercy — merciless
6. thought — thoughtless
7. use — useless
ic
1. angel — angelic
2. atmosphere - atmospheric
3. hero — heroic
4. poet — poetic
5. science - scientific
6. sympathy - sympathetic
ish
0. book — bookish 1. boy - boyish
2. child – childish
3. fever — feverish
4. fool - foolish
5. girl — girlish
ive
1. express — expressive
2. sensitiveness - sensitive
3. talk - talkative
ly
1. brother — brotherly
2. coward — cowardly
3. day — daily
4. father - fatherly
5. friend — friendly
6. hour — hourly
7. king — kingly
8. month - monthly
9. mother - motherly
10. night — nightly
11. scholar - scholarly
12. sister - sisterly
13. week - weekly
14. year - yearly
(But when we add ly to the adjective brave, the word formed, that is, bravely, is an Adverb - not an adjective.)
ous
1. adventure - adventurous
2. bulb - bulbous
3. danger — dangerous
4. fame — famous
5. glory - glorious
6. industry - industrious
7. virtue — virtuous
some
1. quarrel — quarrelsome
2. tire - tiresome
3. trouble - troublesome
4. worry - worrisome
y
1. anger — angry
2. blood - bloody
3. ease - easy
4. flower — flowery
5. gloom — gloomy
6. haste - hasty
7. hill - hilly
8. hunger - hungry
9. length — lengthy
10. might - mighty
11. need — needy
12. rain - rainy
13. stone — stony
14. sun - sunny
15. thirst — thirsty
16. wind - windy
17. worth — worthy
Few sentences with adjectives :
1. Dasharath decided that Ram would become the king as he was quite worthy.
2. It is dangerous to drive at a high speed within the city.
3. Nobody likes to work with that lady because she is very quarrelsome.
4. Mr. Kapoor always donates to poor children and other needed people.
5. Rita fits in very well in her new school because she is very friendly by nature.
6. Mohan keeps getting remarks in his diary because he is talkative.
7. Henu drew the face with a bulby nose.
8. We decided to subscribe to the monthly issue of the magazine.
9. Leela did not like the book because she thought the story to be quite childish.
10. I hope you find the bed comfortable, I just bought it yesterday.
Formation of Adjectives
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