negative

Alternative forms

 * −ve

Etymology
From, , from , from , from ; see.

Adjective

 * 1) Not positive nor neutral.
 * 2)  Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
 * 3)  Of a number: less than zero
 * 4)  Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
 * 5)  Denying a proposition.
 * 6) Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
 * 7)  Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
 * 8) Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
 * 9)  Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
 * 10)  Often preceded by ', ', ', or ': to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
 * 11) * 2011, Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want, Body, Mind & Spirit,
 * 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.
 * 1) Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
 * 2)  HIV negative.
 * 3) * quoted in 2013, William I. Johnston, HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (page 145)
 * 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.
 * 1)  COVID-19 negative.
 * 2)  No, not any, zero.
 * 1) * 2011, Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want, Body, Mind & Spirit,
 * 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.
 * 1) Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
 * 2)  HIV negative.
 * 3) * quoted in 2013, William I. Johnston, HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (page 145)
 * 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.
 * 1)  COVID-19 negative.
 * 2)  No, not any, zero.
 * 1)  COVID-19 negative.
 * 2)  No, not any, zero.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَلْبِيّ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: mənfi, neqativ
 * Basque: ezkor
 * Belarusian:, нэгаты́ўны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: უარყოფითი, ნეგატიური
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀρνητικός
 * Hebrew:, שלילית
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, negatífur
 * Irish: diúltach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 否定的
 * Kazakh: негативті, негативтік
 * Korean: 소극적인
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:, záporný
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: від'є́мний,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic: سَلْبِيّ, سَالِب
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: mənfi
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:, שלילית
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: diúltach
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tōraro
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: záporný
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: mənfi
 * Basque: negatibo
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, estrictament negatiu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: záporný,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: baling
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: مَنْفِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: inkar
 * Dutch:, , ontkennende vorm
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ἀρνητικός
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: سَلْبِيّ
 * Azerbaijani: mənfi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Kazakh: келеңсіз
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:


 * Arabic: سَلْبِيّ
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Slovak:


 * Arabic: سَالِب
 * Azerbaijani: neqativ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Polish:
 * Slovak:


 * Arabic: سَالِب
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:

Noun

 * 1) Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
 * 2) An unfavorable point or characteristic.
 * 3)  A right of veto.
 * 4) * 1787, Luther Martin, cited in The Constitutional Convention Of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of America's Founding (2005), Volume 1, page 391
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, no. 68
 * The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign;
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1)  An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
 * 2)  A word that indicates negation.
 * 3)  A negative quantity.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
 * 6)  A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
 * You can’t prove a negative.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
 * 3)  A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
 * You can’t prove a negative.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Arabic: صُورَة سَالِبَة
 * Bulgarian: негатив
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, film négatif
 * German: Negativfilm,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תשליל, נגטיב
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: claonchló
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ネガフィルム
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: negatív
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: diúltach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: tūwhakakāhore
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: zápor, negácia
 * Turkish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: negatiivinen suure, negatiivinen luku
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: отрица́тельная величина́
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To refuse; to veto.
 * 2)  To contradict.
 * 3)  To disprove.
 * 4)  To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.
 * 1)  To disprove.
 * 2)  To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.
 * 1)  To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.
 * 1)  To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.

Interjection

 * 1)  No; nay.

Antonyms

 * affirmative