a. - Consisting in the absence of something; not positive;
negative.
a. - 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.
n. - That of which the essence is the absence of something.
n. - A term indicating the absence of any quality which might
be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
n. - A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.