negative.
Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
Meaning & usage
Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.
Of a number: less than zero.
Of a number: less than zero. Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
I was out in negative weather today.
Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
negative detection of.
Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.
Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
The nitro group is negative.
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.
HIV negative.
COVID-19 negative.
No, not any, zero.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
An unfavorable point or characteristic.
A right of veto.
An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
A word that indicates negation.
A negative quantity.
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.
A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
You can’t prove a negative.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
To refuse; to veto.
To contradict.
To disprove.
To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
No; nay.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
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