Dys-
//dɪs// prefix
prefix ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Prefix
- 1 difficult morpheme
"dyschezia, dysacusis, dysbasia, dyslexia, dyscopia"
- 2 bad morpheme
"dysphoria, dystopia"
- 3 bad; unhealthy, harmful morpheme
"dysaemia, dyscognitive"
- 4 bad; painful morpheme
"dysejaculation, dysuria"
- 5 bad; incorrect morpheme
"dysbalanced, dyschloremia, dysdifferentiation"
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- 6 bad; poor, deficient morpheme
"dysgraphia, dysphasia, dysoxic"
- 7 abnormal morpheme
"dysgnathic, dysafferentation, dysesthesia"
- 8 to fail morpheme
"dysautoregulation"
- 9 inability, unable morpheme
"dyscontrol, dysmetria"
- 10 malady, disease morpheme
"dysendocrinism, dysexecutive, dysautonomia, dysbarism"
- 11 not morpheme
"dysfluent"
Antonyms
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More examples"dyschezia, dysacusis, dysbasia, dyslexia, dyscopia"
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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