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-stress

-stress is the female equivalent of -ster.

Meaning of -ster

Suffix

-ster (noun-forming suffix, plural -sters)

  1. Someone who is, or who is associated with, or who does something specified.
  2. (humorous, offensive, sometimes) A diminutive appended to a person's name.
    • Cramer's exploration of the hearts, minds and souls of America's ambition-crazed Presidential candidates moves ahead at a pace that feels childishly frantic . . . . This is not just because it keeps referring to Senator Robert Dole as "the Bobster."1992, Russell Baker, "Observer; Pretty Good Read" (review of What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer), New York Times, 25 Jul.

Origin of -stress

From Middle English -estere.

Questions about -stress

What is -stress the female equivalent of?
-stress is the female equivalent of -ster.

Words near -stress in the dictionary

  1. -stock
  2. -stodon
  3. -stomatous
  4. -stome
  5. -stomy
  6. -stress
  7. -strophy
  8. -style
  9. -styly
  10. -sy
  11. -t

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -stress (page history and authors); -ster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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