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orphaned negative
Noun
Japanese Meaning
肯定的な意味に対応する対義語が存在しない否定的な意味を持つ単語。例えば「disgruntled（不満を持つ）」「uncouth（無作法な）」「incognito（正体を隠した）」のような語に見られる特徴を指す。
（ plural ）
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A negative word or term (such as disgruntled
, uncouth
or incognito
) that has no positive equivalent
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orphaned negative
Linguists catalogued the orphaned negative as a rare lexical phenomenon in the corpus.
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Linguists catalogued the orphaned negative as a rare lexical phenomenon in the corpus.
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