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Dys-

//dɪs// prefix

Definitions

Prefix
  1. 1
    difficult morpheme

    "dyschezia, dysacusis, dysbasia, dyslexia, dyscopia"

  2. 2
    bad morpheme

    "dysphoria, dystopia"

  3. 3
    bad; unhealthy, harmful morpheme

    "dysaemia, dyscognitive"

  4. 4
    bad; painful morpheme

    "dysejaculation, dysuria"

  5. 5
    bad; incorrect morpheme

    "dysbalanced, dyschloremia, dysdifferentiation"

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  1. 6
    bad; poor, deficient morpheme

    "dysgraphia, dysphasia, dysoxic"

  2. 7
    abnormal morpheme

    "dysgnathic, dysafferentation, dysesthesia"

  3. 8
    to fail morpheme

    "dysautoregulation"

  4. 9
    inability, unable morpheme

    "dyscontrol, dysmetria"

  5. 10
    malady, disease morpheme

    "dysendocrinism, dysexecutive, dysautonomia, dysbarism"

  6. 11
    not morpheme

    "dysfluent"

Etymology

From New Latin dys-, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “hard, difficult, bad”). Often confused with the etymologically unrelated prefix dis-.

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