25 June 2008 - -less

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Productive Affixation

The suffix “-less” means without, as in “nevertheless” (without the not ever, thus always, thus anyway). “-more” means nothing, as in “furthermore” (the same as “further”). Therefore “more or less” means nothing, or without nothing.

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