English Explanatory Dictionary

-aster

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Used to form diminutive and pejorative nouns, labeling someone pretending to be what they are not.

Word forms

-aster

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin -aster (“little, petty, partial, incomplete”).

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