negative

Meaning

Adj

1. Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
2. Of a number: less than zero.
3. Of a number: less than zero.
4. Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
5. Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
6. Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
7. (often) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
8. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
9. Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
10. (New-Age, derogatory, jargon) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
11. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
12. (slang) HIV negative.
13. (slang) COVID-19 negative.
14. (excessive) No, not any, zero.

Noun

1. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
2. An unfavorable point or characteristic.
3. A right of veto.
4. An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
5. A word that indicates negation.
6. A negative quantity.
7. 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.
8. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
9. A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.

Verb

1. (transitive) To refuse; to veto.
2. (transitive) To contradict.
3. (transitive) To disprove.
4. (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.

Intj

No; nay.

Opposite of

;, affirmative, awful, bad, detestable, disagreeable, dreadful, good, intensifying, intensitive, intensive, nonnegative, positive, positive#Noun, unsatisfactory

Synonyms

no

🙅

not

🚫

negation

minus

deny

passive

denial

negate

contradictory

veto

film

📽️

disconfirming

reject

pessimistic

rebuff

female

♀️

damaging

gainsay

unkindly

conservative

hesitate

negatively charged

wrong

photographic negative

adverse

refuse

talk

🗣️

less than

disclaimer

black

cynical

antagonistic

electronegative

don’t

blackball

lacking

dismissal

disclaim

disavowal

contrary

disavow

disallowance

contradict

inimical

disaffirm

astonishment

antagonise

impious

ill-natured

hostile

Translations

négatif

negativo

negativo

negativo

negativ

negatief

negativa

αρνητικός

negatiu

strictement négatif

Negativ

olumsuz

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɛɡətɪv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: negative

In summary

From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.

Sentences

The Council on Mind Abuse took a very negative view of " The Satanic Bible ".

" Valentine " received largely negative reviews from critics .