plus-

English

Etymology

From plus, from Latin plūs (“more”). Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Prefix

plus-

  1. An intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to more or very.
    • 2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet‎[1], archived from the original on 23 August 2025:
      The main prefixes in the controlled language include “un-“, “plus-“, “doubleplus-“, “ante-” and “post-“. […] “Plus-” and “doubleplus-” are both intensifiers that replace words of different extremities, and the words very and extremely respectively.

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with plus-
doubleplus-

Tocharian B

Verb

plus-

  1. to fly, soar
  2. to float
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