Definition:
- (a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
- (a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
- (a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
- (a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.
- (n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
- (n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.
- (n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.
- (n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
- (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.
- (n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- (v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.
- (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
- (v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
Compare negative with other words:
negative vs. negatived
decline vs. negative
negative vs. opposite
negative vs. voltagraphy
negative vs. notself
hyalotype vs. negative
heliotypy vs. negative
biacid vs. negative
negative vs. noncontent
negative vs. solarization
misaffect vs. negative
negative vs. realism
negative vs. passive
adverse vs. negative
negative vs. static
derogatory vs. negative
negative vs. subtraction
negative vs. normal
damage vs. negative
display vs. negative
gloomy vs. negative
mobile vs. negative
negative vs. optimistic
banishing vs. negative
negative vs. reducer
negative vs. privative
negative vs. resinous
enlarger vs. negative
ambrotype vs. negative
negative vs. negatively
alternating vs. negative
negative vs. prohibitive
downer vs. negative
anticlastic vs. negative
eat vs. negative
canine vs. negative
hyphen vs. negative
bleak vs. negative
hyperbolic vs. negative
negative vs. retaliate
negative vs. signed
negative vs. polarization
naught vs. negative
cathode vs. negative
disturb vs. negative
negative vs. radiograph
negative vs. obverse
impair vs. negative
forcing vs. negative
negative vs. valence
minus vs. negative
cynic vs. negative
attitude vs. negative
negative vs. plus
disprove vs. negative
contradict vs. negative
cell vs. negative
electrolytic vs. negative
negative vs. voltaic
negative vs. plate
eccentric vs. negative
extend vs. negative
muscle vs. negative
negative vs. weight
negative vs. rep
negative vs. quantity
negative vs. word
image vs. negative
negative vs. veto
negative vs. prohibition
negative vs. withholding
negative vs. refusal
negation vs. negative
negative vs. negativity
negative vs. negativeness
affirmative vs. negative
negative vs. thought
emotion vs. negative
feeling vs. negative
negative vs. painful
difficult vs. negative
negative vs. unpleasant
disagreeable vs. negative
jargon vs. negative
bright vs. negative
negative vs. pessimistic
deny vs. negative
electron vs. negative
negative vs. neutral
negative vs. nope
intensify vs. negative
negative vs. writhe
negate vs. negative
anode vs. negative
negative vs. nerve
amulet vs. negative
negative vs. print
inverse vs. negative
negative vs. remainder
alternation vs. negative
dependent vs. negative
blame vs. negative
electricity vs. negative
negative vs. risk
doomed vs. negative
energy vs. negative
fog vs. negative
dark vs. negative
effect vs. negative
care vs. negative
negative vs. stick
negative vs. shake
contraction vs. negative
have vs. negative
down vs. negative
bad vs. negative
negative vs. yes
negative vs. poison
negative vs. punishment
negative vs. positive
gobble vs. negative