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      negative
      noun
      (mathematics) A negative quantity.
      (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
      (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
      An unfavorable point or characteristic.
      Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
      (law) A right of veto.
      (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
      The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
      (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
      verb
      (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.
      (transitive) To refuse; to veto.
      (transitive) To contradict.
      (transitive) To disprove.
      adjective
      Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
      (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.
      (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
      (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
      (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
      (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
      (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
      (slang) HIV negative.
      (slang) COVID-19 negative.
      (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
      Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
      (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
      Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
      (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
      Roots
      negoneg- · Latin · deny
      Synonyms for negative
      positiveadjnegativitynnegativenessnnegativisticadjnegativismnnegatoryadjminusnnegativelyadvunfavorableadjnegatingvpessimisticadjadverseadjnegationnpessimistndefeatistn
      Words related to negative
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