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privative adjective

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Meaning

(grammar) An adjective indicating that a noun refers to an object that is not of the class which that noun ordinarily refers to.
That's fake news.(literally, “That is not news.”)
Isn't that a toy sword?(literally, “That is not a genuine sword.”)

(grammar) 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
‎heart + ‎-less → ‎heartless
‎sugar + ‎-free → ‎sugar-free

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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