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plus-

plus- prefix: an intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to more or very.

Prefix

plus-

  1. An intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to more or very.
    • The main prefixes in the controlled language include “un-“, “plus-“, “doubleplus-“, “ante-” and “post-“. […] “Plus-” and “doubleplus-” are both intensifiers that replace words of different extremities, and the words very and extremely respectively.2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet

Origin of plus-

From plus, from Latin plūs (“more”). Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Questions about plus-

What does plus- mean?
Plus- means an intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to more or very.
What part of speech is plus-?
Plus- is a prefix.

Words near plus- in the dictionary

  1. plus sign
  2. plus signs
  3. plus size
  4. plus sizes
  5. plus ça change
  6. plus-
  7. plus-alpha-pinene
  8. plus-minus
  9. plus-minus method
  10. plus-minus sign
  11. plus-minus signs

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