Privative is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRIVATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a privative attribute, quality, proposition, or particle
• 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.
ADJECTIVE:
• indicating absence, deprivation or negation
• (of a statement or term) denoting the absence or loss of an attribute or quality
• (of a particle or affix) expressing absence or negation, for example the Greek a-, meaning ‘not’, in atypical.
• (of an action or state) marked by the absence or loss of some quality or attribute that is normally present.
• causing privation
• 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.
• (of a particle or affix) expressing absence or negation, for example the Greek a-, meaning ‘not’, in atypical.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• constituting or predicating privation or absence of a quality

Words related to PRIVATIVE

privatively22 privatives18

Words that contain PRIVATIVE

privatives18 deprivative20 privatively22

How to use PRIVATIVE in a sentence

• Un is prefixed to all participles made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeared.

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