Dictionary Entry
privative
privative is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Causing privation; depriving. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Causing privation; depriving.
- 2adjective
Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
- 3adjective
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.
- 4noun
That of which the essence is the absence of something.
- 5noun
A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
- 6noun
A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative., 3.
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