What does the suffix ant mean?

a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from verbs, occurring originally in French and Latin loanwords (pleasant; constant; servant) and productive in English on this model; -ant has the general sense “characterized by or serving in the capacity of” that named by the stem (ascendant; pretendant), especially in the formation of nouns denoting human agents in legal actions or other formal procedures (tenant; defendant; applicant; contestant). read more

List of suffixes ending in "ant" List #: 1275. Keywords/tags: suffix, suffixes, root words, word roots, words ending in "ant" Comments: Clicking "modify" list will make a copy of this list, so you can add or remove words. You can also remove words once they have been added to your account. read more