negative

Meaning

Adj

1. Not positive nor neutral.
2. Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
3. Of a number: less than zero
4. Of a number: less than zero
5. Denying a proposition.
6. Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
7. 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. 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. 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. To refuse; to veto.
2. To contradict.
3. To disprove.
4. To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.

Intj

No; nay.

Hyphenated as

neg‧a‧tive

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɛɡətɪv/

Etymology

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

Sentences

" Valentine " received largely negative reviews from critics .