Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun affix

1 sense of affix

Sense 1
affix -- (a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form)
       => bound morpheme, bound form -- (a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb affix

3 senses of affix

Sense 1
affix, stick on -- (attach to; "affix the seal here")
       => attach -- (cause to be attached)

Sense 2
append, add on, supplement, affix -- (add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language")
       => attach -- (cause to be attached)

Sense 3
affix -- (attach or become attached to a stem word; "grammatical morphemes affix to the stem")
       => attach -- (cause to be attached)

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