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  comb form a suffix forming nouns humorously denoting a fictional place name word origin 1990; modeled on many place names of asian and indian subcontinent

• -istic

  a suffix of adjectives (and in the plural, of nouns from adjectives) formed from nouns ending in -ist and having reference to such nouns, or to -ssociated nouns in -ism (deistic; euphuistic; puristic). in nouns, it usually has a plural form (linguistics). -istic suffix equivalent to a combination of -ist and -ic but in some […]

• -istical

  a combination of -istic and -al1 .

• -istics

  a combination of -ist and -ics.

• -ite

  a suffix of nouns denoting especially persons -ssociated with a place, tribe, leader, doctrine, system, etc. (campbellite; israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, especially salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body […]

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