| (a.) | Causing privation; depriving. | |
| (a.) | Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative. | |
| (a.) | 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. | |
| (n.) | That of which the essence is the absence of something. | |
| (n.) | A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term. | |
| (n.) | A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3. |
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