negative

1. 1.

   Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.

   The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.

   Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.

   Đồng nghĩa: bad, undesirable, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, ordinary, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack

2. 2.

   (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.

3. 3.

   (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.

   negative detection of.

4. 4.

   (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles

5. 5.

   (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.

   Đồng nghĩa: negatory

6. 6.

   (often)(often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.

   I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.

7. 7.

   Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.

8. 8.

   (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.

   The nitro group is negative.

9. 9.

   (New Age, derogatory, jargon)(New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.

   2011, Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want, Body, Mind & Spirit, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hf5qEW9n_fsC&pg=PT109&dq=positive+feelings&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MkX-T8PQCo6KmQXjr4GhBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=unwanted%20feelings&f=false The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages... Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.

10. 10.

    Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.

11. 11.

    (slang)HIV negative.

    We certainly told him at that time that I was negative. We talked about transmission. We told him we don't do anything that would cause me to become positive.

12. 12.

    (slang)COVID-19 negative.

1. 1.

   Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto

2. 2.

   An unfavorable point or characteristic.

3. 3.

   (law) A right of veto.

   And as to the Constitutionality of laws, that point will come before the Judges in their proper official character. In this character they have a negative on the laws.

   The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; […]

   1983, INS v. Chadha, Opinion of the Court In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.

4. 4.

   (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.

5. 5.

   (grammar) A word that indicates negation.

6. 6.

   (mathematics) A negative quantity.

7. 7.

   (weightlifting) 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. 8.

   The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

9. 9.

   (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.

   You can’t prove a negative.

1. 1.

   (transitive)To refuse; to veto.

2. 2.

   (transitive)To contradict.

3. 3.

   (transitive)To disprove.

4. 4.

   (transitive)To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.

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1. 1.

   (law, signalling) No; nay.