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Negative   /nˈɛgətɪv/   Listen
Negative

adjective
1.
Characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features.  "A colorless negative personality" , "A negative evaluation" , "A negative reaction to an advertising campaign"
2.
Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial.
3.
Having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant.  "Delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"
4.
Not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition.  Synonym: disconfirming.
5.
Reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive.
6.
Less than zero.
7.
Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.  Synonym: damaging.
8.
Having a negative charge.  Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged.
9.
Involving disadvantage or harm.  Synonym: minus.
noun
1.
A reply of denial.
2.
A piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed.
verb
(past & past part. negatived; pres. part. negativing)
1.
Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent.  Synonyms: blackball, veto.



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"Negative" Quotes from Famous Books



... of itself. But chloroform administered while the heart was in such a state would have a decided tendency to accelerate the fatal result. At the same time, I may mention that the POST-MORTEM signs of poisoning by chloroform are mostly negative. ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... SIR,—With my best acknowledgments to Lord Holland [1], I have to offer my perfect concurrence in the propriety of the question previously to be put to ministers. If their answer is in the negative, I shall, with his Lordship's approbation, give notice of a motion for a Committee of Inquiry. I would also gladly avail myself of his most able advice, and any information or documents with which he might be pleased to intrust me, to ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... the group of three—a listener on either side of her. There is the attractiveness of the Burne-Jones method about this picture, but after all there seems to be no very good reason for its having been painted. The subject thus treated has only a negative value, and little suggestion of thought ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... regulate our own, this social purpose will be best accomplished by leaving to each one all the liberty consistent with the general safety. Security, being the only common object, should be the sole duty of the common agent. The government being confined to the performance of this negative duty, it must not exercise its power except when necessary. The inquiry, Is it necessary? not, Is it advantageous? is the test to be applied to every measure. The rigid application of this rule excludes the state from any interference with commerce ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various
... context, other reasons conclusively negative such an interpretation of this text. I, for my part, do not believe that there are any bounds or end to God's forbearing pleading with men in this life. I take, as true, the great words of the old Psalm, in their simplest sense—'His mercy endureth for ever'; and I fall back upon the other ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren


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