| -ant suff. 1. a. Performing, promoting, or causing a specified action: acceptant. b. Being in a specified state or condition: flippant. 2. a. One that performs, promotes, or causes a specified action: deodorant. b. One that undergoes a specified action: inhalant. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -  ns, -ant-, present participle suff. of verbs in -re.] |
-ant
suffix forming adjectives and nouns
causing or performing an action or existing in a certain condition; the agent that performs an action pleasant claimant deodorant protestant servant
[from Latin -ant-, ending of present participles of the first conjugation]
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