-ed

Pronunciation

• (in verbs, past participles, and some denominal adjectives)
• after a vowel or a voiced consonant other than a enPR: d, IPA: /d/
• after a voiceless consonant other than a enPR: t, IPA: /t/
• after a or same as below
• (other denominal adjectives)
• UK enPR: Ä­d, IPA: /ɪd/
• US enPR: Ä­d, IPA: /ɪd/ or enPR: É™d, IPA: /É™d/
• AU enPR: É™d, IPA: /É™d/

Alternative forms

• -'d chiefly poetry
• -èd chiefly poetry

From Old English -ode, -odon ("class 2 weak past"), from Proto-Germanic *-ōd-, *-ōdēd-.

Full definition of -ed

Suffix

1. Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.pointed (as in He pointed at the dog.)

From Old English -od ("class 2 weak past participle"), from Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz.

Suffix

1. Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.pointed (as in He has pointed at the dog.)

From Old English -od ("adjective suffix"), from Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz. While identical in appearance to the past participle of class 2 weak verbs, this suffix was attached directly to nouns without any intervening verb. Compare also Latin -ātus.

Suffix

1. Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.pointed (as in A needle has a pointed end. - the end of a needle has a point.)
2. As an extension of the above, when used along with an adjective preceding the noun, describes something that has an object of a particular quality.red-haired (having red hair)left-handed (having a left hand as more dexterous hand)

Antonyms

• -less