Sentence examples for negative prefix from inspiring English sources

Late in the 19th century, responding to reports of God's demise, the biologist TH Huxley attached a negative prefix to the Greek term for knowledge and thus coined "agnostic".

As Garner himself puts it in his Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, choate is "a misbegotten word," since the in- of inchoate is not in fact a negative prefix.

This is best reflected in the Finnic, Samoyedic, and Yukaghir languages e.g., Finnish mene-n 'I go,' e-n mene 'I don't go,' mene-t 'you go,' e-t mene 'you don't go'; Yukaghir met elūjeŋ 'I didn't go' (with negative prefix el- [äl- in Finnish]; compare met merūjeŋ 'I went').

Furthermore in Sanskrit, A is used as a negative prefix.

This emptiness of substance is denoted by its use as a negative prefix, i.e., the absence of self-presence in infinite referentiality.

The algorithm was able to identify 21,586 different phrases with total occurrence of over 0.68 million, each of which has a negative prefix.

We avoided jargon, value-laden words, negatively worded questions and negative prefixes, all of which can decrease an item's validity coefficient [ 35, 36].

Words such as adjectives and verbs are able to convey opposite sentiment with the help of negative prefixes.

The positive and negative prefixes are the band structures for the π* (conduction) and π (valence) bands, respectively [20].

Most common negative prefixes such as not, no, or nothing are treated as adverbs by the POS tagger.

Unlike Scalia's improbable analogy of changing insult into sult, back-forming choate is an understandable maneuver for anyone who isn't a Latin scholar, given that inchoate is in the same semantic ballpark as words that really do have a negative in- prefix, like incoherent and incomplete.