| 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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