By Universities, Suffixes

Hi Fred! I hope I'm going to have right: I attend university as well as you majoring English and American studeis in Hungary. have you ever heard about derivation. Now "disillusionment" is one of it. There ae certain types of it, for instance deriving from verb to noun, from Adj to N, and...

Hello As you said -ish and -like are both used as a suffix to form an adjective from a noun. And you are quite right that -ish gives a negative sense to the adjective. OED says "X-ish" is usually an adjective to mean "having the qualities of X" (e.g., boorish, foolish, swinish). But some words...