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Definition of Negative

1. Noun. A reply of denial. "He answered in the negative"

2. Verb. Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent. "The President vetoed the bill"

3. Adjective. Characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features. "A negative reaction to an advertising campaign"

4. Noun. A piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed.

5. Adjective. Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial.

6. Adjective. Having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant. "Delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"

7. Adjective. Not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition. "The HIV test was negative"

8. Adjective. Reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive. "Negative interest rates"

9. Adjective. Less than zero. "A negative number"

10. Adjective. Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions. "Negative criticism"

11. Adjective. Having a negative charge. "Electrons are negative"

12. Adjective. Involving disadvantage or harm. "Minus (or negative) factors"

Definition of Negative

1. a. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.

2. n. A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.

3. v. t. To prove unreal or untrue; to disprove.

Definition of Negative

1. Adjective. not positive or neutral ¹

2. Adjective. (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles (defdate from the 18th c.) ¹

3. Adjective. (mathematics) of number, less than zero ¹

4. Adjective. (linguistics) (logic) denying a proposition ¹

5. Adjective. damaging; undesirable; unfavourable ¹

6. Adjective. pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.) ¹

7. Adjective. (context: New Age jargon) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, excessively difficult; (often precedes 'energy', 'feeling', 'emotion' or 'thought'). ¹

8. Noun. refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition (defdate from the 15th c.) ¹

9. Noun. (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse (defdate from the 19th c.) ¹

10. Noun. (grammar) a word that indicates negation ¹

11. Noun. (mathematics) a negative quantity ¹

12. Noun. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement. ¹

13. Verb. To veto ¹

14. Verb. To contradict ¹

15. Verb. To disprove ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Negative

1. to veto [v -TIVED, -TIVING, -TIVES] - See also: veto

Medical Definition of Negative

1. Not affirming the presence of the organism or condition in question (a negative diagnosis). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Negative

negarchy negatability negatable negate negated negater negaters negates negating negation

negational negationism negationist negationists negations negative (current term) negative-clause negative-edge-triggered negative-sum negative G

negative Nancy negative S negative accommodation negative afterimage negative anergy negative base excess negative binomial distribution negative charge negative chemotaxis negative clause

Literary usage of Negative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In the method of negative synthesis, positive color prints are made from the three ... The negative made through a red screen must print a positive, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Then the roots of the proposed biquadratic equation are, when q is negative, when q is positive. Vo+VH-VO. Va-Vi-Vi), See also below, Theory of Equations, ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... and adjacent negative charges of a rigid helical structure. Conformations 3A-2, 3A-3, and 3A-4 are unfavorable. Conformation 3A-1 corresponds to CH,N+H ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"The other leads to a variable spark-gap at the negative terminal of an 8- plate ... The negative glow around the pin-head which communicates with the ..."

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