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Privative adjective

Privative adjectives describe things that don't have something. For example, if something is "non-toxic", it means that it doesn't have any poison or bad thing in it. Another example would be "unemployed", which means that the person doesn't have a job. So a privative adjective is a kind of description that tells us something does not have something else.
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