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privative
[ priv-uh-tiv ]
adjective
- causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- consisting in or characterized by the taking away, loss, or lack of something.
- Grammar. indicating negation or absence.
noun
- Grammar. a privative element, as a- in asymmetric.
- something that is deprived.
privative
/ ˈprɪvətɪv /
adjective
- causing privation
- expressing lack or negation, as for example the English suffix -less and prefix un-
- obsolete.logic (of a proposition) that predicates a logical privation
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Derived Forms
- ˈprivatively, adverb
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Other Words From
- priva·tive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of privative1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of privative1
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Example Sentences
The evil in matter is due to its negative or privative aspect as the formless, which makes it the cause of defect and evil.
Be-adab, unmannerly, a compound adjective (Hindustani) formed by prefixing the privative particle be- to the noun adab.
Name composed of - privative and , a bright surface, because the foliage is not shining.
Nearly as in Asclepias; but the hoods destitute of crest or horn (whence the name, from privative, and , a horn).
From - privative, and (Latin jugum), yoke, from the seeming absence of a yoke-fellow to the lower lip of the corolla.
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