alpha privative

1. 1.

   the negative prefix a- or un-

   Broaderprefix

Questions about alpha privative

What does alpha privative mean?

alpha privative means "the negative prefix a- or un-".

Is alpha privative a common word?

alpha privative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.