Word Families
E to L
Word families from E to L, with nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs side by side.
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E
| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|---|
| earner earnings | earn | ||
| earth | unearth | earthy earthly unearthly | |
| ease unease easiness | ease | easy uneasy | easily uneasily easy |
| east easterner | east eastward(s) | east easterly eastern | |
| economics economist economy | economize | economic economical uneconomic(al) | economically |
| education | educate | educated uneducated educational | educationally |
| effect effectiveness ineffectiveness | effect | effective ineffective ineffectual | effectively ineffectively |
| effort | effortless | effortlessly | |
| election re-election elector electorate | elect re-elect | unelected electoral | |
| electrician electricity | electrify | electric electrical | electrically |
| electronics | electronic | electronically | |
| embarrassment | embarrass | embarrassed embarrassing | embarrassingly |
| emotion | emotional emotive | emotionally | |
| emphasis | emphasize | emphatic | emphatically |
| employee employer employment unemployment | employ | unemployed | |
| encouragement discouragement | encourage discourage | encouraged encouraging discouraging | encouragingly |
| end ending | end | unending endless | endlessly |
| energy | energize | energetic | energetically |
| enjoyment | enjoy | enjoyable | enjoyably |
| enormity | enormous | enormously | |
| entrance entrant entry | enter | ||
| entertainer entertainment | entertain | entertaining | entertainingly |
| enthusiasm enthusiast unenthusiastically | enthuse | enthusiastic unenthusiastic | enthusiastically |
| environment environmentalist | environmental | environmentally | |
| equality inequality | equalize | equal unequal | equally unequally |
| escape escapism | escape | escaped inescapable | inescapably |
| essence essentials | essential | essentially | |
| estimate estimation | estimate overestimate underestimate | estimated | |
| event non-event | eventful uneventful eventual | eventfully eventually | |
| exam examination cross-examination examiner | examine cross-examine | ||
| excellence | excel | excellent | excellently |
| excitement | excite | excitable excited exciting unexciting | excitedly excitingly |
| excuse | excuse | excusable inexcusable | inexcusably |
| existence | exist coexist | non-existent existing pre-existing | |
| expectancy expectation | expect | expectant unexpected | expectantly unexpectedly |
| expenditure expense expenses | expend | expensive inexpensive | expensively inexpensively |
| experience inexperience | experience | experienced inexperienced | |
| experiment | experiment | experimental | experimentally |
| expert expertise | expert inexpert | expertly | |
| explaining explanation | explain | unexplained explanatory explicable inexplicable | inexplicable |
| explosion explosive | explode | exploding explosive | explosively |
| exploration explorer | explore | exploratory | |
| expression | express | expressive | expressively |
| extreme extremism extremist extremity | extreme extremist | extremely |
F
| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|---|
| fact | factual | factually | |
| fail failure | fail | unfailing | unfailingly |
| fairness | fair unfair | fairly unfairly | |
| faith faithfulness | faithful unfaithful | faithfully | |
| familiarity family | familiarize | familiar unfamiliar | familiarly |
| fame | famed famous infamous | famously infamously | |
| fashion | fashion | fashionable unfashionable | fashionably unfashionably |
| fat | fatten | fat fattening fatty | |
| fastener | fasten unfasten | ||
| fault | fault | faultless faulty | faultlessly |
| fear | fear | fearful fearless fearsome | fearfully fearlessly |
| feel feeling feelings | feel | unfeeling | |
| fiction nonfiction | fictional | ||
| fill refill filling | fill refill | filling | |
| final semifinal finalist | finalize | final | finally |
| finish | finish | finished unfinished | |
| firmness infirmity | firm | firm infirm | firmly |
| fish fishing | fish | fishy | fishily |
| fit fittings | fit | fitted fitting | fittingly |
| fix fixation fixture | fix | fixed transfixed unfixed | fixedly |
| flat | flatten | flat | flat flatly |
| flower | flower | flowered flowery flowering | |
| fold folder | fold unfold | folded folding | |
| follower following | follow | following | |
| force | force | forceful forcible | forcefully forcibly |
| forest deforestation forestry | forested | ||
| forgetfulness | forget | forgetful unforgettable | forgetfully |
| forgiveness | forgive | forgiving unforgiving | |
| form formation transformation reformer transformer | form reform transform | reformed | |
| formality | formalize | formal informal | formally informally |
| fortune | fortunate unfortunate | fortunately unfortunately | |
| freedom freebie | free | free | free freely |
| freeze freezer freezing | freeze | freezing frozen | |
| frequency infrequency | frequent | frequent infrequent | frequently infrequently |
| freshness refreshments | freshen refresh | fresh refreshing | freshly refreshingly |
| friend friendliness | befriend | friendly unfriendly | |
| fright | frighten | frightened frightening frightful | frighteningly frightfully |
| fruit fruition | fruit | fruitful fruitless fruity | fruitfully fruitlessly |
| fund refund funding | fund refund | funded | |
| furnishings furniture | furnish | furnished unfurnished |
G
| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|---|
| garden gardener gardening | garden | ||
| generalization | generalize | general | generally |
| generosity | generous | generously | |
| gentleness | gentle | gently | |
| gladness | gladden | glad | gladly |
| glass glasses | glassy | ||
| good goodies goodness goods | good | ||
| government governor | govern | governmental governing | governmentally |
| gratitude ingratitude | grateful ungrateful | gratefully | |
| greatness | great | greatly | |
| green greenery greens | green | ||
| ground underground grounding grounds | ground | groundless underground | underground |
| grower growth undergrowth | grow outgrow | growing grown overgrown | |
| guilt guiltiness | guilty | guiltily |
H
| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|---|
| habit | habitual | habitually | |
| hair hairiness | hairless hairy | ||
| hand handful | hand | underhand handy | |
| handle handler handling | handle | ||
| hanger | hang overhang | hanging | |
| happiness unhappiness | happy unhappy | happily unhappily | |
| hardship | harden | hard | hard hardly |
| harm harmfulness | harm | unharmed harmful harmless | harmlessly |
| head heading overheads | head behead | overhead heady | overhead |
| health | healthy unhealthy | healthily unhealthily | |
| hearing | hear overhear | unheard unheard of | |
| heart | heartened heartening heartless hearty | heartily heartlessly | |
| heat heater heating | heat overheat | heated unheated | heatedly |
| height heights | heighten | high heightened | |
| help helper helpfulness helping | help | helpful unhelpful helpless | helpfully helplessly |
| historian history | historic prehistoric historical | historically | |
| hold holder holding | hold | ||
| home | home | homeless homely | home |
| honesty dishonesty | honest dishonest | honestly dishonestly | |
| hope hopefulness hopelessness | hope | hopeful hopeless | hopefully hopelessly |
| human humanism humanity inhumanity | humanize | human inhuman superhuman humane | humanly humanely |
| hunger | hungry | hungrily | |
| hurry | hurry | hurried unhurried | hurriedly |
| hurt | hurt | unhurt hurtful | hurtfully |
I
| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ice icicle icing | ice | icy | icily |
| identification identity | identify | identifiable unidentified | |
| imagination | imagine | imaginable unimaginable imaginary imaginative | unimaginably imaginatively |
| importance | important unimportant | importantly | |
| impression | impress | impressionable impressive | impressively |
| improvement | improve | improved | |
| increase | increase | increased | increasingly |
| credibility incredulity | incredible credible incredulous | incredibly incredulously | |
| independence independent | independent | independently | |
| industrialist industrialization industry | industrial industrialized industrious | industrially industriously | |
| infection disinfectant | infect disinfect | infectious | infectiously |
| inflation | inflate deflate | inflatable inflated inflationary | |
| informant information informer | inform misinform | informative uninformative informed uninformed | |
| injury | injure | injured uninjured | |
| innocence | innocent | innocently | |
| insistence | insist | insistent | insistently |
| instance instant | instant instantaneous | instantly instantaneously | |
| instruction instructor | instruct | instructive | instructively |
| intelligence | intelligent unintelligent | intelligently | |
| intent intention | intend | intended unintended intentional unintentional | intentionally unintentionally |
| interest | interest | interested interesting disinterested uninterested | interestingly |
| interruption | interrupt | uninterrupted | |
| interview interviewee | interview | ||
| introduction | introduce | introductory | |
| invention inventiveness inventor | invent reinvent | inventive | inventively |
| invitation invite | invite | uninvited inviting | invitingly |
| involvement | involve | involved uninvolved | |
| item | itemize | itemized |
J
| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|---|
| joke joker | joke | joky/jokey | jokingly |
| journal journalism journalist | journalistic | ||
| judge judg(e)ment | judge | judgmental | |
| juice juices | juicy |
K
| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|---|
| keenness | keen | keenly | |
| keep keeper keeping | keep | kept | |
| kill overkill killer killing | kill | ||
| kindness unkindness | kind unkind | kindly unkindly | |
| knowledge | know | knowing knowledgeable known unknown | knowingly unknowingly knowledgeably |
L
| Nouns | Verbs | Adjectives | Adverbs |
|---|---|---|---|
| enlargement | enlarge | large | largely |
| laugh laughter | laugh | laughable | laughably |
| law lawyer outlaw | outlaw | lawful unlawful | lawfully unlawfully |
| laziness | laze | lazy | lazily |
| lead leader leadership | lead | lead leading | |
| learner learning | learn unlearn | learned unlearned | |
| legality illegality legalization | legalize | legal illegal | legally illegally |
| length | lengthen | long lengthy lengthening | lengthily |
| liar lie | lie | lying | |
| life | live | lifeless lifelike lifelong | lifelessly |
| light lighter lighting lightness | light lighten | light | lightly |
| dislike liking | like dislike | likeable | |
| likelihood | likely unlikely | likely | |
| limit limitation limitations | limit | limited unlimited | |
| literature literacy | literary literate illiterate | ||
| liveliness living | live outlive relive | live lively living | live |
| local location relocation | locate dislocate relocate | local | locally |
| loser loss | lose | lost | |
| loud | aloud loud/loudly | ||
| love lover | love | lovable unlovable loveless lovely loving | lovingly |
| low | lower | low lower lowly | low |
| luck | lucky unlucky | luckily unluckily |
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earth is a noun. Which word is the verb in its family?
essential is an adjective. Which word is the adverb in its family?
fortunately is an adverb. Which word is the adjective in its family?
heart is a noun. Which word is the adjective in its family?
intention is a noun. Which word is the adjective in its family?
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