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• -nastic

  a combining form occurring in adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -nasty: hyponastic.

• -nasty

  a combining form with the meaning “nastic pressure,” of the kind or in the direction specified by the initial element: hyponasty. -nasty combining form indicating a nastic movement to a certain stimulus nyctinasty derived forms -nastic, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from greek nastos pressed down, close-pressed

• -naut

  combining form indicating a person engaged in the navigation of a vehicle, esp one used for scientific investigation astronaut

• -nik

  a suffix of nouns that refer, usually derogatorily, to persons who support or are concerned or -ssociated with a particular political cause or group, cultural att-tude, or the like: beatnik, filmnik; no-goodnik; peacenik. -nik suffix denoting a person -ssociated with a specified state, belief, or quality beatnik, refusenik word origin c20: from russian -nik, as […]

• -noia

  a combining form appearing in loanwords from greek, where it meant “thought”: paranoia.

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