ADJECTIVE | all | negative | characterized by or displaying negation or denial / denial or opposition or resistance |
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all | negative | expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | |
all | negative | having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | |
all | negative, disconfirming | not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | |
all | negative | reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | |
all | negative | less than zero | |
all | negative, damaging | designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | |
all | negative, electronegative, negatively charged | having a negative charge | |
all | negative, minus | involving disadvantage or harm | |
NOUN | communication | negative | a reply of denial |
artifact | negative | a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | |
VERB | social | negative, veto, blackball | vote against |
Sounds | neh'gahtihv | |
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Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... |
Meaning | Characterized by or displaying negation or denial / denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features. | |
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Attribute of | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
Narrower | antagonistic, counter | Indicating opposition or resistance |
perverse | marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | |
See also | destructive | Causing destruction or much damage / damage |
pessimistic | Expecting the worst possible outcome | |
unsupportive | not furnishing support or assistance | |
Opposite | neutral | Possessing no distinctive / distinctive quality or characteristics / characteristics |
positive | Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. | |
Spanish | negativo | |
Nouns | negativity | characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands |
Adverbs | negatively | in a negative way |
Meaning | Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial. | |
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Narrower | dissentient, dissenting, dissident | disagreeing, especially with a majority |
See also | disinclined | Unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval |
unfavorable, unfavourable | not encouraging or approving or pleasing | |
Opposite | affirmative, affirmatory | affirming or giving assent |
Spanish | negativo | |
Catalan | negatiu | |
Nouns | negativeness | characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands |
Verbs | negate | prove negative |
negate | deny the truth of |
Meaning | Having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant. | |
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Broader | bad | Having undesirable or negative qualities |
Spanish | negativo | |
Nouns | negativeness | characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands |
Adverbs | negatively | in a harmful manner |
Meaning | not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition. | |
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Example | "the HIV test was negative" | |
Synonym | disconfirming | |
Category | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
Narrower | Gram-negative | (of bacteria) being of or relating to a bacterium that does not retain the violet stain used in Gram's method |
Opposite | positive, confirming | Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen |
Meaning | reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive. | |
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Example | "negative interest rates" | |
Opposite | positive | reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase / increase / increase / increase or progress or onward motion |
Spanish | negativo |
Meaning | less than zero. | |
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Example | "a negative number" | |
Category | mathematics, math, maths | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
Broader | minus | On the negative side or lower end of a scale |
Nouns | negativeness | an amount less than zero |
Meaning | designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions. | |
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Example | "negative criticism" | |
Synonym | damaging | |
Broader | destructive | Causing destruction or much damage / damage |
Spanish | dañino, demolidor, destructivo, devastador, negativo | |
Catalan | demolidor, destructiu, devastedor, negatiu |
Meaning | Having a negative charge. | |
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Example | "electrons are negative" | |
Synonyms | electronegative, negatively charged | |
Broader | charged | Of a particle or body or system |
Meaning | Involving disadvantage or harm. | |
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Example | "minus (or negative) factors" | |
Synonym | minus | |
Broader | disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfavourable | constituting a disadvantage |
Meaning | A reply of denial. | |
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Example | "he answered in the negative" | |
Narrower | double negative | A grammatically substandard but emphatic negative |
nay | A negative | |
no | A negative | |
Broader | denial | The act of refusing / refusing to comply (as with a request) |
Opposite | affirmative | A reply of affirmation |
Spanish | negativa | |
Catalan | negativa | |
Verbs | negative | vote against |
Meaning | A piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed. | |
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Broader | film, photographic film | photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion |
Spanish | negativo | |
Catalan | negatiu |
Meaning | Vote against; refuse to endorse / endorse; refuse to assent. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonyms | veto, blackball | |
Entails | vote | Express a choice or opinion |
Narrower | kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out | thwart the passage of |
Broader | oppose, controvert, contradict | Be resistant to |
Spanish | dar bola negra, echar bola negra, negar, vetar, votar en contra | |
Catalan | donar bola negra a, vedar, vetar, votar en contra | |
Nouns | negative | a reply of denial |
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