Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An inseparable prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying ‘hard, difficult, bad, ill,’ and implying some difficulty, imperfection, inability, or privation in the act, process, or thing denoted by the word of which it forms a part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek dys- hard, ill, and signifying ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr.
dus- , Goth.tuz- , OHG.zur- , G.zer- , AS.to- , Icel.tor- , Ir.do- .
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- prefix
bad
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dis- is also now often negative, to my disgust, because of confusion with the Greek dys- (as in “dysfunctional,” a macaronic horror), but earlier meant “in different directions” (the final s happily assimilates to a following consonant).
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Dis- is also now often negative, to my disgust, because of confusion with the Greek dys- (as in “dysfunctional,” a macaronic horror), but earlier meant “in different directions” (the final s happily assimilates to a following consonant).
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Dis- is also now often negative, to my disgust, because of confusion with the Greek dys- (as in “dysfunctional,” a macaronic horror), but earlier meant “in different directions” (the final s happily assimilates to a following consonant).
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Dis- is also now often negative, to my disgust, because of confusion with the Greek dys- (as in “dysfunctional,” a macaronic horror), but earlier meant “in different directions” (the final s happily assimilates to a following consonant).
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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