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Phonetics
/ˈnɛ(e)ɡəˌɾɪv/
/ˈnɛɡətɪv/
/-ɾɪv/
noun
Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
A right of veto.
An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
(grammar) A word that indicates negation.
A negative quantity.
: A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
verb
To refuse; to veto.
To contradict.
To disprove.
To make ineffective; to neutralize.
adjective
Not positive nor neutral.
Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
Of a number: less than zero
Denying a proposition.
Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
Example: Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
Example: I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.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.
Example: The nitro group is negative.(New Age jargon) 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
interjection
(signalling) An elaborate synonym for no.