priv·a·tive /ˈprɪvətɪv/
(a.)剝奪的,表示缺少某性質的否定字,否定詞
Priv·a·tive a.
1. Causing privation; depriving.
2. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Gram. 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.
Priv·a·tive, n.
1. That of which the essence is the absence of something.
Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives. --Bacon.
2. Logic A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
3. Gram. A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.
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