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Meaning of PRIVATIVE in English

Causing privation; depriving.

Use in sentences of PRIVATIVE

    Meaning of PRIVATIVE in English

    • Causing privation; depriving.
    • Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
    • Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less.
    • That of which the essence is the absence of something.
    • A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
    • A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.

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