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We can create adjectives from nouns, verbs, or other adjectives using certain suffixes and prefixes. 

1 The suffix -y is usually added to uncountable nouns meaning a material, e.g.:

• Waxy
• Mity
• Sandy
• Silky

2 The suffix-ly is added to words naming certain categories of people, and means something like "having a certain feature":

• friend - friendly
• father - fatherly
• dead - deadly
• ghost - ghostly

This suffix is also used to create certain time expressions, e.g.:

• day - daily
• month - monthly

3 The suffix -like is added to nouns naming people and animals and means "resembling or being in a similar state", e.g.:

• God - Goldlike
• Bark - barklike
• Child - childlike
• war - warlike

4 The suffix -ish has a similar meaning except that we use it to emphasize a negative feature, e.g.:

• Child - childish
• Fool - foolish

The suffix is also used when describing colors" variety, e.g.:

• red - reddish
• blue - bluish
• yellow - yellowish

5 The suffix -some is added to verbs and nouns to indicate having a given feature, e.g.:

• to fear - fearsome
• to quarrel - quarrelsome

6 The suffix -worthy is added to nouns and means "worth of something, suitable for something", e.g.:

• praise - praiseworthy
• trust - trustworthy

7 The suffixes -able and -ible are added to many noiuns and verbs and mean "being able to do something", e.g.:

• avoid - avoidable
• adorable
• bearable
• reasonable

Some suffixes make the whole word different:

• eat - edible

9 The suffixed -ful ("having a given feature") and -less ("not having a given feature") are almost always created from nouns, e.g.:

• beautiful
• wishful
• helpful
• thankful
• grateful
• harmless
• spotless
• pointless

The adjectives are added other suffixes as well:

• -ive
• -ant
• -ous
• -ate
• -ory
• -esque

It`s important to remember about meaning difference between some adjectives with -ic and icalsuffixes, e.g.:

economic -

econimical - 

We create opposites of the adjectives by adding the negative prefixes such as:

• a-
• anit-
• dis-
• il-
• im-
• in-
• ir-
• mal-
• mis-
• un-

• social - antisocial
• social - antisocial
• honest - dishonest
• legible - illegible
• mature - immature
• acceptable - inacceptable
• responsible - irresponsible
• adjust - maladjusted
• leading - misleading
• happy - unhappy

The prefixes over- and under- can be added to adjectives and Past Participles, and mean "having too much of a given feature (over-)" and "having too little of a given feature (under-)"

• fed - overfed
• developed - underdeveloped
• done - overdone - underdone
• crowded - overcrowded