-ibility
variant of -ability:
reducibility.
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- -ible
variant of -able, occurring in words borrowed from latin (credible; horrible; visible), or modeled on the latin type (reducible). -ible suffix a variant of -able derived forms
- -ibly
variant of -ably: credibly; visibly.
- -ic
a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally in greek and latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses “having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the base noun) (balletic; soph-m-ric); “in the style of” (byronic; miltonic); […]
- -ical
a combination of -ic and -al1 , used in forming adjectives from nouns (rhetorical), providing synonyms to words ending in -ic, (poetical), and providing an adjective with additional meanings to those in the -ic, form (economical). -ical suffix a variant of -ic economical, fanatical derived forms word origin -ical adj. suffix, mostly the same as […]
- -ically
a suffix used to form adverbs from adjectives ending in -ic, (terrifically) and -ical, (poetically; magically).