negative
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛɡ.ə.tɪv/
The English word “negative” has 20 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
- Of a number: less than zero.
- Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
- Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
- 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.
- HIV negative.
- COVID-19 negative.
- No, not any, zero.
noun
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- A right of veto.
- An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- A word that indicates negation.
- A negative quantity.
Etymology
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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