| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| prefix | |
| —n | |
| 1. | grammar Compare suffix an affix that precedes the stem to which it is attached, as for example un- in unhappy |
| 2. | something coming or placed before |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to put or place before |
| 4. | grammar to add (a morpheme) as a prefix to the beginning of a word |
| prefixal | |
| —adj | |
| 'prefixally | |
| —adv | |
| prefixion | |
| —n | |
Letters placed in front of a word to form a new word: “trimonthly,” “semimonthly,” “bilingual,” “multilingual,” “address,” “redress,” “predate,” “postdate.” (Compare suffix.)