English Adjective Suffixes
This table illustrates how to form adjectives from nouns using common suffixes.
Suffix: -ful
| Noun | Adjective |
|---|
| Beauty | Beautiful |
| Care | Careful |
| Colour | Colourful |
| Faith | Faithful |
| Fear | Fearful |
| Harm | Harmful |
| Help | Helpful |
| Hope | Hopeful |
| Peace | Peaceful |
| Skill | Skillful |
| Success | Successful |
| Thought | Thoughtful |
| Use | Useful |
| Wonder | Wonderful |
Suffix: -less
| Noun | Adjective |
|---|
| Care | Careless |
| Colour | Colourless |
| Faith | Faithless |
| Fear | Fearless |
| Harm | Harmless |
| Help | Helpless |
| Home | Homeless |
| Hope | Hopeless |
| Pain | Painless |
| Power | Powerless |
| Thought | Thoughtless |
| Use | Useless |
Suffix: -al
| Noun | Adjective |
|---|
| Accident | Accidental |
| Environment | Environmental |
| Logic | Logical |
| Music | Musical |
| Nation | National |
| Origin | Original |
| Politics | Political |
| Profession | Professional |
Suffix: -y
| Noun | Adjective |
|---|
| Cloud | Cloudy |
| Cream | Creamy |
| Dirt | Dirty |
| Dust | Dusty |
| Fun | Funny |
| Hunger | Hungry |
| Luck | Lucky |
| Sleep | Sleepy |
| Sun | Sunny |
| Thirst | Thirsty |
| Wealth | Wealthy |
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