negative
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
Inflected forms:
form: more negative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most negative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: -ve
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: −ve
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: negatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: -ve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: −ve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: negatives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: negativing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: negatived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: negatived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: -ve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: −ve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: -ve
pos: intj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: −ve
pos: intj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
pos: adj
examples: The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.
gloss: Of a number: less than zero.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a number: less than zero.
pos: adj
examples: I was out in negative weather today.
gloss: Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
pos: adj
examples: negative detection of.
gloss: Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
pos: adj
gloss: Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
pos: adj
gloss: Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.
gloss: Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
pos: adj
gloss: Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
pos: adj
examples: The nitro group is negative.
gloss: Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
pos: adj
tags: New-Age
derogatory
jargon
examples: 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).
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.
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.
gloss: Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
pos: adj
gloss: HIV negative.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: COVID-19 negative.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: No, not any, zero.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
examples: The negative contact we get inside here [prison] is enough to make you even more bitter and further alienated from society and ourselves.
The hell? I wish I could follow you on that, but it makes negative sense.
gloss: Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
pos: noun
examples: “Upon my word, I can’t eat a morsel,” answered the lady […] There is indeed in perfect beauty a power which none almost can withstand; for my landlady, though she was not pleased at the negative given to the supper, declared she had never seen so lovely a creature.
Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely […] made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford. The Abbot, a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a negative.
gloss: An unfavorable point or characteristic.
pos: noun
gloss: A right of veto.
pos: noun
examples: And as to the Constitutionality of laws, that point will come before the Judges in their proper official character. In this character they have a negative on the laws.
The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; […]
1983, INS v. Chadha, Opinion of the Court
In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.
gloss: An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
pos: noun
gloss: A word that indicates negation.
pos: noun
examples: "Why, she is one of those persons whom negatives seem invented to describe—I doubt whether she is worth one single bad quality."
gloss: A negative quantity.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
pos: noun
gloss: A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
pos: noun
examples: You can’t prove a negative.
gloss: To refuse; to veto.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.
"Never mind," said Cripps, "the dinner will set you right." The curate, foreboding the worst, followed them to the Sign of the Sixpence, where he had sufficient presence of mind to negative Cripps's order of steak-and-kidney pudding for three, and substitute a humble request for roast mutton.
And being of warm blood he had not the phlegm tacitly to negative any proposition by unresponsive inaction.
gloss: To contradict.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "A comely maid, that," said the other.
"True, comely enough. But unless I make a great mistake—" And he negatived the remainder of the definition forthwith.
gloss: To disprove.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At one time an idea got abroad that the whole tale of her fortune had been a myth; […] but the boastings of various servants who declared they had seen her with “rolls on rolls” of banknotes […] negatived the truth of this statement.
"However, the fact that they need crystals negatives that idea...we must seek a material explanation."
gloss: To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "The War Office," said Miss Nightingale, "is a very slow office, an enormously expensive office, and one in which the Minister's intentions can be entirely negatived by all his sub-departments, and those of each of the sub-departments by every other."
In the nature of things, much railway capital expenditure on stations and depots was in the immediate vicinity, if not in the heart, of towns, and extensions or remodellings, apart from being extremely costly, may be entirely negatived by the impossibility of securing the necessary land.
He was coatless and his thumbs were hooked negligently in a leather belt, thereby negativing a tendency to balance himself on an inclined plane backwards.
Yet he made his largesse daily more lavish, as he saw the king negativing his efforts by taking care of the orphans and showing his remorse for the murder of his sons by his tenderness towards their little ones.
While the diesel-hydraulic system has been failing to live up to its early promise, development in other directions has negatived some of the advantages which prompted its trial.
gloss: No; nay.
pos: intj
examples: "Negative Marcel. No IOC. Patient has been drinking heavily, we can give him nothing for pain."
Antonyms: positive
affirmative
Related words: negate
negation
negativism
negatory
Derived words: A negative
binegative
body negative
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 entry
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-painted
negative painting
negative pickup
negative pion
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
triple-negative breast cancer
triple negative breast cancer
uninegative
vironegative
connegative
double negative
false negative
internegative
multinegative
negatival
neg-raising
stereonegative
negativation
negativer
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