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adjectives ending in -ous

Suffix -OUS
B2 First C1 Advanced English Vocabulary Word Building

Suffix -OUS

What is a suffix? It is a letter or a group of letters we add to a word to change its meaning. We can add suffixes to a noun and make an adjective, for instance. Likewise, when we add the suffix -OUS to some nouns, they become adjectives.
The suffix -OUS means “full of” or “having the quality of”. Let’s look at some commonly used adjectives ending in -OUS

By My Lingua Academy, 7 years17 Sep 2019 ago

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