- causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- consisting in or characterized by the taking away, loss, or lack of something.
- indicating negation or absence.
- a privative element, as a- in asymmetric.
- something that is deprived.
- causing privation
- expressing lack or negation, as for example the English suffix -less and prefix un-
- (of a proposition) that predicates a logical privation
