Meanings
adjectiveabnegative (comparative more abnegative, superlative most abnegative)
comparative more abnegative · superlative most abnegative
- obsoleterareDenying; renouncing; negative
There is rather in their faces a quiet , baffling , negative , and abnegative expression , which certainly is as far from happy content as it is from desperate rebellion
1872, Sara Jane Lippincott, New Life in New Lands
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
- Proto-Italic*ap
- Latinab
- Latinab-
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*nékʷe
- Proto-Italic*nekʷe
- Latinneque
- Latinnec
- Latinnegō
- Latinabnegō
- Latinabnegativus
- Englishabnegative
Borrowed from Latin abnegativus.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ukraine відмовний, заперечний
- відмовний (vidmovnyj/zaperečnyj)denying; renouncing; negative
- заперечний (vidmovnyj/zaperečnyj)denying; renouncing; negative
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