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| 1. | [ adjective ] characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | |
| Examples: | "a negative outlook on life" "a colorless negative personality" "a negative evaluation" "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign" |
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| Related terms: | positive neutral non perverse antagonistic destructive pessimistic unsupportive quality | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | |
| Related terms: | backward | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | |
| Related terms: | affirmative dissentient dismissive unfavorable disinclined | |
| 4. | [ noun ] a reply of denial | |
| Examples: | "he answered in the negative" |
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| Related terms: | affirmative denial no nay double_negative veto | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | |
| Examples: | "ran a negative campaign" "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life" |
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| Related terms: | bad | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] (mathematics) less than zero | |
| Examples: | "a negative number" |
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| Related terms: | mathematics minus | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] involving disadvantage or harm | |
| Synonyms: | minus | |
| Examples: | "minus (or negative) factors" |
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| Related terms: | disadvantageous | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] (physics) having a negative electric charge | |
| Synonyms: | electronegative | |
| Examples: | "electrons are negative" |
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| Related terms: | positive neutral polarity | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | |
| Synonyms: | damaging | |
| Examples: | "negative criticism" |
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| Related terms: | destructive | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] (medicine) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | |
| Synonyms: | disconfirming | |
| Examples: | "the HIV test was negative" |
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| Related terms: | positive medicine | |
| 11. | [ verb ] (politics) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | |
| Synonyms: | veto blackball | |
| Examples: | "The President vetoed the bill" |
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| Related terms: | oppose kill veto vote | |
| 12. | [ noun ] (photography) a piece of photographic film showing an image with black and white tones reversed | |
| Related terms: | film | |
| Similar spelling: |
negatively negativity negativist negativism negotiable |
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