negative
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
1. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
2. A right of veto.
3. An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
4. (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
5. A negative quantity.
6. : 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.
7. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
1. To refuse; to veto.
2. To contradict.
3. To disprove.
4. To make ineffective; to neutralize.
1. Not positive nor neutral.
2. Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
3. Of a number: less than zero
4. Denying a proposition.
5. Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
"Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative."
6. 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. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
8. Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
"The nitro group is negative."
9. (New Age jargon) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
10. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
11. HIV negative
Synonyms
≠ Antonyms
1. (signalling) An elaborate synonym for no.
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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