privative adjective

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An adjective indicating that a noun refers to an object that is not of the class which that noun ordinarily refers to.

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    That's fake news.

    Isn't that a toy sword?

  2. 2.

    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.

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    finger + -less → fingerless

    hope + -less → hopeless

    heart + -less → heartless

    sugar + -free → sugar-free