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- Prefixed Antonyms
- Preservative Prefixes
Last term you studied prefixes. You learnt that a prefix is an affix that is placed before the stem or root of a word so as to form another word. You also learnt that there are two types of prefixes – reversative and preservative.
When a prefix is placed before the root of a word, the word is reversed and a new word which is the opposite (antonym) of the original word is formed. Some examples are shown in the table below:
Prefixed Antonyms:
| Prefix | Root Word | Antonym |
| un | happy | unhappy |
| mis | apply | misapply |
| in | attentive | inattentive |
| ir | regular | irregular |
| il | legible | illegible |
In this lesson and the next, we will be considering the second type of prefixes – preservative prefixes.
Preservative Prefixes:
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