-phile

---

Suffix

1. Forming nouns and adjectives meaning "loving", "friendly", or "friend".

   Scott is such a bibliophile that he won't even put that book down.

Antonyms

• (forming nouns and adjectives) -phobe

Related terms

• -philia
• -philiac

Translations

• French: -phile
• Italian: -filo
• Portuguese: -filo
• Spanish: -filo

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.001