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privative adjectives

privative adjectives is the plural of privative adjective.

Meaning of privative adjective

Noun

privative adjective (plural privative adjectives)

  1. An adjective used to show that a noun refers to something outside the category that the noun normally represents.
    • That's fake news.
  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.
    • finger + -less → fingerless

Questions about privative adjectives

What is privative adjectives the plural of?
Privative adjectives is the plural of privative adjective.

Words near privative adjectives in the dictionary

  1. privatissimum
  2. privatissimums
  3. privative
  4. privative a
  5. privative adjective
  6. privative adjectives
  7. privative as
  8. privative case
  9. privative cases
  10. privatively
  11. privativeness

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