privative adjective (English, noun)
expansion: privative adjective (plural privative adjectives)
Senses:
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glosses: An adjective indicating that a noun refers to an object that is not of the class which that noun ordinarily refers to.
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glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: privative adjectives
tags: plural