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orphaned negatives

orphaned negatives is the plural of orphaned negative.

Meaning of orphaned negative

Noun

orphaned negative (plural orphaned negatives)

  1. A negative word or term (such as "disgruntled", "uncouth" or "incognito") that has no positive equivalent in current use.

Questions about orphaned negatives

What is orphaned negatives the plural of?
Orphaned negatives is the plural of orphaned negative.

Words near orphaned negatives in the dictionary

  1. orphandoms
  2. orphane
  3. orphaned
  4. orphaned house
  5. orphaned negative
  6. orphaned negatives
  7. orphaned off
  8. orphaned tsunami
  9. orphaned tsunamis
  10. orphaned work
  11. orphaned works

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orphaned negatives (page history and authors); orphaned negative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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