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Adjective: negative negutiv- Characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
"a negative outlook on life"; "a colourless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"; "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign" - Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- Having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
"ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life" - Not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
"the HIV test was negative"
- disconfirming - Reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
"negative interest rates" - Less than zero
"a negative number" - Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
"negative criticism"
- damaging - Having a negative charge
"electrons are negative"
- electronegative, negatively charged - Involving disadvantage or harm
"negative factors"
- minus
Noun: negative negutiv- A reply of denial
"he answered in the negative" - A piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colours reversed
Verb: negative negutiv- Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
- veto, blackball
Derived forms: negativing, negatived, negatives See also: antagonistic, bad, charged, counter, destructive, disadvantageous, disinclined, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, Gram-negative, minus, negate, negatively, negativeness, negativity, perverse, pessimistic, quality, unfavorable [US], unfavourable [Brit, Cdn], unsupportive Type of: contradict, controvert, denial, film, oppose, photographic film Antonym: affirmative, neutral, positive Encyclopedia: Negative |