English Explanatory Dictionary

privative adjective

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An adjective indicating that a noun refers to an object that is not of the class which that noun ordinarily refers to.
  2. An adjective indicating that a noun lacks some other noun, or a quality of that noun; usually formed in English by the affixation of the suffix -less or suffixoid -free to the noun that is absent.

Word forms

privative adjective privative adjectives

Antonyms

possessional adjective

Related words

alpha privative alpha privativum deprivation privation privative a
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