negative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛɡətɪv/
ipa: /ˈnɛɡətɪv/
ipa: /-ɾɪv/
ipa: /ˈneɡətɪv/
ipa: /-ɾɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈnɛɡəʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /nɪɡəˈʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /nɛ~ɪˈɡeʈɪv/
Forms: form: more negative
form: most negative
form: -ve
form: −ve
Etymology: From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
Senses: examples: text: The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
text: Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.
synonyms: word: bad
word: undesirable
word: abysmal
word: awful
word: chronic
word: coarse
word: crap
word: crummy
word: dire
word: disagreeable
word: dismal
word: dreadful
word: foul
word: hideous
word: hopeless
word: horrendous
word: horrid
word: horrible
word: inadequate
word: incompetent
word: inelegant
word: intolerable
word: inferior
word: loathsome
word: lousy
word: miserable
word: naff
word: negative
word: odious
word: pathetic
word: peak
word: rotten
word: rubbish
word: shitawful
word: sloppy
word: terrible
word: unfavorable
antonyms: word: positive
word: good
word: awful
word: bad
word: detestable
word: disagreeable
word: dreadful
word: unsatisfactory
glosses: Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: positive
nonnegative
hypernyms: nonzero
nonpositive
glosses: Of a number: less than zero.
examples: text: I was out in negative weather today.
topics: climatology
mathematics
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences
weather
antonyms: positive
nonnegative
hypernyms: nonzero
nonpositive
glosses: Of a number: less than zero.
Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
examples: text: negative detection of.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: negatory
antonyms: affirmative
;
intensifying
intensive
intensitive
glosses: Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
examples: text: I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.
glosses: Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
raw_tags: used pejoratively
glosses: Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
examples: text: The nitro group is negative.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
examples: text: Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy... In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy).
ref: 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, page 15:
text: 2011, Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want, Body, Mind & Spirit, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hf5qEW9n_fsC&pg=PT109&dq=positive+feelings&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MkX-T8PQCo6KmQXjr4GhBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=unwanted%20feelings&f=false
The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages... Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.
text: If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself... Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.
ref: 2011, Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies, Hachette, page 118:
glosses: Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
glosses: Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
examples: text: We certainly told him at that time that I was negative. We talked about transmission. We told him we don't do anything that would cause me to become positive.
ref: quoted in 2013, William I. Johnston, HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (page 145)
glosses: HIV negative.
glosses: COVID-19 negative.
examples: text: The negative contact we get inside here [prison] is enough to make you even more bitter and further alienated from society and ourselves.
ref: 1982 August 14, Renee Holmes, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 15:
text: The hell? I wish I could follow you on that, but it makes negative sense.
ref: 2002 September 7, Jef, “MST3K DVD Collection One”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet):
glosses: No, not any, zero.
Derived terms: A negative
binegative
carbon negative
electronegative
geonegative
go negative
Gram-negative
gram-negative
HIV-negative
homonegative
hypernegative
immunonegative
negamile
negativate
negative atheist
negative bath
negative binomial distribution
negative capability
negative clause
negative cost
negative crystal
negative cutter
negative deficit
negative edge
negative-edge-triggered
negative edge-triggered
negative energy
negative equity
negative eugenics
negative feedback
negative gearing
negative growth
negative hallucination
negative harmony
negative ice
negative income tax
negative indexing
negative interest
negative logic
negative lookahead
negative lookaround
negative lookbehind
negatively
negative majority
negative Nancy
negative Ned
negative Nelly
negativeness
negative number
negative option
negative pickup
negative pledge
negative polarity item
negative pole
negative pregnant
negative pressure
negative priming
negative proof
negative raising
negative reinforcement
negative repetition
negative resolution
negative sense
negative side waterproofing
negative space
negative split
negative-sum
negative theology
negative training
negative transfer
negative utilitarian
negative utilitarianism
negative verb
negative zero
negativist
negativistic
negativity
negativization
negativize
negatome
negatrip
negentropy
non-negative
orphaned negative
photonegative
polynegative
pseudonegative
RhD negative
Rhesus negative
Rh negative
seronegative
sex-negative
socionegative
task-negative
triple negative breast cancer
triple-negative breast cancer
uninegative
vironegative
Related terms: negate
negation
negativism
negatory