negative
IPA: nˈɛgʌtɪv
noun
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- (law) A right of veto.
- (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
- (mathematics) A negative quantity.
- (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
verb
- (transitive) To refuse; to veto.
- (transitive) To contradict.
- (transitive) To disprove.
- (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.
adjective
- Not positive nor neutral.
- (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero
- (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition.
- Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
- (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
- (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- (slang) HIV negative.
- (slang) COVID-19 negative.
- (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
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Examples of "negative" in Sentences
- The result was always the negative.
- The cathode is the negative electrode.
- The response was universally negative.
- The negative reviews are in the article.
- The request was answered in the negative.
- It is a form of negative amortization loan.
- The delegation reacted negatively to the plan.
- In this case, immoral is the negative of moral.
- It reflects negatively on the rest of the article.
- Here too a man discovers to his amazement that the negative is the evil.'
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