Negative

['negətɪv] or ['nɛɡətɪv]

Definition

(noun.) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed.

(noun.) a reply of denial; 'he answered in the negative'.

(adj.) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial .

(adj.) having a negative charge; 'electrons are negative' .

(adj.) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; 'ran a negative campaign'; 'delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life' .

(adj.) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; 'a negative outlook on life'; 'a colorless negative personality'; 'a negative evaluation'; 'a negative reaction to an advertising campaign' .

(adj.) less than zero; 'a negative number' .

(adj.) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive; 'negative interest rates' .

(adj.) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; 'the HIV test was negative' .

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Definition

(a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.

(a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.

(a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.

(a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.

(n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.

(n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.

(n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.

(n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.

(n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.

(n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

(v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.

(v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.

(v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Denying, privative, disclaiming, indirect

ANT:Assertive, attributive, positive, direct

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Definition

adj. that denies or refuses—opp. to Affirmative: implying absence: that stops hinders neutralises—opp. to Positive: in photography exhibiting the reverse as dark for light light for dark: (logic) denying the connection between a subject and a predicate: (algebra) noting a quantity to be subtracted.—n. a word or statement by which something is denied: the right or act of saying 'no ' or of refusing assent: the side of a question or the decision which denies what is affirmed: in photography an image on glass or other medium in which the lights and shades are the opposite of those in nature used for printing positive impressions from on paper &c.: (gram.) a word that denies.—v.t. to prove the contrary: to reject by vote.—adv. Neg′atively.—ns. Neg′ativeness Neg′ativism Negativ′ity.—adj. Neg′atory expressing denial.—Negative bath a silver solution in which photographic negatives are placed to be sensitised; Negative electricity electricity with a relatively low potential electricity such as is developed by rubbing resinous bodies with flannel opposite to that obtained by rubbing glass; Negative quantity (math.) a quantity with a minus sign ( - ) before it indicating that it is either to be subtracted or reckoned in an opposite direction from some other with a plus sign; Negative sign the sign ( - or minus) of subtraction.

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