Word Meanings - PRIVATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. Causing privation; depriving. 2. Consisting in the

Additional info about word: PRIVATIVE

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. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRIVATIVE)

• Negative
• Denying
• privative
• disclaiming
• indirect

Related words: (words related to PRIVATIVE)

• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• DENY
  1. To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit. Note: We deny what another says, or we deny the truth of an assertion, the force of it, or the assertion itself. 2. To refuse ; to reject; to decline;
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• NEGATIVELY
  1. In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively." Boyle. 2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively. negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• PRIVATIVE
  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. (more info) 1. Causing privation; depriving. 2. Consisting in the
• DENYINGLY
  In the manner of one denies a request. Tennyson.
• INDIRECTLY
  In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.
• DISCLAIM
  To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. Burrill. Syn. -- To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate. (more info) 1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or
• DISCLAIMER
  A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill. 3. A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke. (more info) 1.
• INDIRECTED
  Not directed; aimless.
• PRIVATIVENESS
  The state of being privative.
• PRIVATIVELY
  In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively. Hammond.
• INDIRECT
  Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc. Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners
• ABNEGATIVE
  Denying; renouncing; negative. Clarke.
• SELF-DENYING
  Refusing to gratify one's self; self-sacrificing. -- Self`-de*ny"ing*ly, adv.
• ELECTRO-NEGATIVE
  Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive,