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negative

[ neg-uh-tiv ]

adjective

  1. expressing or containing negation or denial:

    a negative response to the question.

  2. refusing consent, as to a proposal:

    a negative reply to my request.

  3. expressing refusal to do something:

    He maintained a negative attitude about cooperating.

  4. prohibitory, as a command or order.
  5. characterized by the absence of distinguishing or marked qualities or features; lacking positive attributes ( positive ):

    a dull, lifeless, negative character.

  6. lacking in constructiveness, helpfulness, optimism, cooperativeness, or the like:

    a man of negative viewpoint.

    Synonyms: , ,

  7. encouraging or noting an unhealthy or unbalanced outlook toward something, especially toward sex or sexuality (used in combination):

    The song has a body-negative message.

  8. being without rewards, results, or effectiveness:

    a search of the premises proved negative.

  9. Mathematics, Physics.
    1. involving or noting subtraction; minus.
    2. measured or proceeding in the direction opposite to that which is considered as positive.
  10. Photography. noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.
  11. Electricity.
    1. of, relating to, or characterized by negative electricity.
    2. indicating a point in a circuit that has a lower potential than that of another point, the current flowing from the point of higher potential to the point of lower potential.
  12. Medicine/Medical.
    1. (of blood, affected tissue, etc.) failing to indicate the presence of a specified medical condition or substance.
    2. (of a diagnostic test) failing to indicate the presence of the medical condition or substance tested for:

      Test results for skin cancer were negative.

    3. (of a person) not having a specified medical condition, or not having a specified substance in the body (often used in combination): I'm Rh-negative.

      She tested negative for a staph infection.

      I'm Rh-negative.

  13. Chemistry. (of an element or group) tending to gain electrons and become negatively charged; acid.
  14. Physiology. responding in a direction away from the stimulus.
  15. of, relating to, or noting the south pole of a magnet.
  16. Logic. (of a proposition) denying the truth of the predicate with regard to the subject.


noun

  1. a negative statement, answer, word, gesture, etc.:

    The ship signaled back a negative.

  2. a refusal of assent:

    to answer a request with a negative.

  3. the negative form of statement.
  4. a person or number of persons arguing against a resolution, statement, etc., especially a team upholding the negative side in a formal debate.
  5. a negative quality or characteristic.
  6. disadvantage; drawback:

    The plan is generally brilliant, but it has one or two negatives.

  7. a negative test result:

    Her test for the infection was a negative.

  8. Mathematics.
    1. a minus sign.
    2. a negative quantity or symbol.
  9. Photography. a negative image, as on a film, used chiefly for making positives.
  10. Electricity. the negative plate or element in a voltaic cell.
  11. Archaic. a veto, or right of veto:

    The delegation may exercise its negative.

adverb

  1. (used to indicate a negative response):

    鈥淵ou won't come with us?鈥 鈥淣egative.鈥

verb (used with object)

negatived, negativing.
  1. to deny; contradict.
  2. to refute or disprove (something).
  3. to refuse assent or consent to; veto.
  4. to neutralize or counteract.

interjection

  1. (used to indicate disagreement, denial of permission, etc.):

    Negative, pilot鈥攃omplete your mission as directed.

negative

/ 藞苍蓻伞蓹迟瑟惫 /

adjective

  1. expressing or meaning a refusal or denial

    a negative answer

  2. lacking positive or affirmative qualities, such as enthusiasm, interest, or optimism
  3. showing or tending towards opposition or resistance
    1. measured in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
    2. having the same magnitude but opposite sense to an equivalent positive quantity
  4. biology indicating movement or growth away from a particular stimulus

    negative geotropism

  5. med (of the results of a diagnostic test) indicating absence of the disease or condition for which the test was made
  6. another word for minus minus
  7. physics
    1. (of an electric charge) having the same polarity as the charge of an electron
    2. (of a body, system, ion, etc) having a negative electric charge; having an excess of electrons
    3. (of a point in an electric circuit) having a lower electrical potential than some other point with an assigned zero potential
  8. short for electronegative
  9. of or relating to a photographic negative
  10. logic (of a categorial proposition) denying the satisfaction by the subject of the predicate, as in some men are irrational; no pigs have wings
  11. astrology of, relating to, or governed by the signs of the zodiac of the earth and water classifications, which are thought to be associated with a receptive passive nature
  12. short for Rh negative
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a statement or act of denial, refusal, or negation
  2. a negative person or thing
  3. photog a piece of photographic film or a plate, previously exposed and developed, showing an image that, in black-and-white photography, has a reversal of tones. In colour photography the image is in complementary colours to the subject so that blue sky appears yellow, green grass appears purple, etc
  4. physics a negative object, such as a terminal or a plate in a voltaic cell
  5. a sentence or other linguistic element with a negative meaning, as the English word not
  6. a quantity less than zero or a quantity to be subtracted
  7. logic a negative proposition
  8. archaic.
    the right of veto
  9. in the negative
    indicating denial or refusal
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

sentence substitute

  1. (esp in military communications) a signal code word for no 1
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to deny or nullify; negate
  2. to show to be false; disprove
  3. to refuse to consent to or approve of

    the proposal was negatived

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

negative

  1. Less than zero.
  2. Having the electric charge or voltage less than zero.
  3. Devoid of evidence of a suspected condition or disease, as a diagnostic test.
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Derived Forms

  • 藞苍别驳补迟颈惫别濒测, adverb
  • 藞苍别驳补迟颈惫别苍别蝉蝉, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 苍别驳顎僡路迟颈惫别路濒测 adverb
  • 苍别驳顎僡路迟颈惫别路苍别蝉蝉 苍别驳顎卆路迟颈惫顎僫路迟测 noun
  • 苍辞苍顎卬别驳路补路迟颈惫顎僫路迟测 noun
  • 辩耻补顎却颈-苍别驳顎僡路迟颈惫别 adjective
  • qua顎卻i-苍别驳顎僡路迟颈惫别路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of negative1

First recorded in 1350鈥1400; from Latin 苍别驳腻迟墨惫耻蝉 鈥渄别苍测颈苍驳鈥; negate, -ive ; replacing Middle English negatif (noun and adjective), from Middle French, from Latin, as above
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. in the negative, in the form of a negative response, as a refusal, denial, or disagreement; no:

    The reply, when it finally came, was in the negative.

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Example Sentences

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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