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privative adjective

privative adjective · privative adjectives

privatives Adjektiv

An adjective used to show that a noun refers to something outside the category that…An adjective used to show that a noun refers to something outside the category that the noun normally represents.

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An adjective used to show that a noun refers to something outside the category that the noun normally represents.
That's fake news.
Isn't that a toy sword?
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.
finger + -less → fingerless
hope + -less → hopeless
privatives Adjektiv