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Definition of -ic suffix from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

-ic

suffix

NAmE//ɪk//

1(in adjectives and nouns) connected with scenic economic Arabic

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2(in adjectives) that performs the action mentioned horrific specific

-ical

NAmE//ɪkl//

(in adjectives) comical

-ically

NAmE//ɪkli//

(in adverbs) physicallySee -ic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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