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View synonyms for postfix

postfix

[ verb pohst-fiks, pohst-fiks; noun pohst-fiks ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to affix at the end of something; append; suffix.


noun

  1. something postfixed.
  2. a suffix.

postfix

verb

  1. tr to add or append at the end of something; suffix
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a less common word for suffix
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • post·fixal post·fixi·al adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of postfix1

1795–1805; post- + -fix, modeled on prefix
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Example Sentences

And it will have to be a prefix, not a postfix; for what I may call the syntax of glyph formation must follow that of the speech.

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