Common Suffixes: Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ous, -eous, -ious

This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "having qualities of."
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  1. ambitious
    having a strong desire for success or achievement
  2. anxious
    causing or fraught with or showing nervousness
  3. cautious
    showing careful forethought
  4. conscious
    having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts
  5. courageous
    able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
  6. curious
    eager to investigate and learn or learn more
  7. dangerous
    involving or causing risk; liable to hurt or harm
  8. delicious
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  9. eloquent
    expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
  10. fabulous
    extremely pleasing
  11. famous
    widely known and esteemed
  12. generous
    willing to give and share unstintingly
  13. glorious
    having or deserving or conferring high honor
  14. gorgeous
    dazzlingly beautiful
  15. harmonious
    exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents
  16. mysterious
    beyond ordinary understanding
  17. nervous
    of or relating to a system of sensory apparatus
  18. obvious
    easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
  19. precious
    of high worth or cost
  20. previous
    just preceding something else in time or order
  21. ravenous
    extremely hungry
  22. religious
    having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
  23. spacious
    having ample room
  24. suspicious
    openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
  25. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  26. tremendous
    extraordinarily large in extent or amount or power
  27. victorious
    having won
  28. zealous
    marked by active interest and enthusiasm
Created on Fri May 03 15:36:59 EDT 2024 (updated Fri Jul 26 16:32:36 EDT 2024)

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