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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