negative
Betekenis
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- Not positive nor neutral.
- Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- Of a number: less than zero
- Of a number: less than zero
- Denying a proposition.
- Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
- Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- 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.
- 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.
- (slang) HIV negative.
- (slang) COVID-19 negative.
- No, not any, zero.
Frequentie
Met koppelteken als
neg‧a‧tive
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈnɛɡətɪv/
Etymologie
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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