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Negative

adjective

1.

Characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features. "A colorless negative personality" , "A negative evaluation" , "A negative reaction to an advertising campaign"

2.

Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial.

3.

Having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant. "Delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"

4.

Not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition. Synonym: disconfirming.

5.

Reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive.

6.

Less than zero.

7.

Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions. Synonym: damaging.

8.

Having a negative charge. Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged.

9.

Involving disadvantage or harm. Synonym: minus.

noun

1.

A reply of denial.

2.

A piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed.

verb

(past & past part. negatived; pres. part. negativing)

1.

Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent. Synonyms: blackball, veto.

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"Negative" Quotes from Famous Books

... soil samples to be taken from an area covering ten thousand square miles. Our chemical analysis has been thorough, and we find nothing that could be remotely harmful to human life. Atmospheric samples produce the same negative results. On the other hand, we have direct evidence that no animal life has ever evolved on Rythar; the ...

— The Guardians • Irving Cox

... disagreement, the second may be stated thus: "Every possible object of thought is to a certain extent diverse from every other." The first gives the positive (subjective) condition of the proposition, the second the negative (objective) condition: both together constitute the conditions of thinking. The proposition is thus the assertion of the same in the different. The proposition also asserts, implicitly, the tertium quid, or ...

— The Philosophy of Evolution - and The Metaphysical Basis of Science • Stephen H. Carpenter

... been brought up. She certainly adapted herself well to whatever society she happened to be with; neither patricians nor plebeians found any thing to criticise; but, whether this were the result of tact, or owing merely to the adoption of a negative standard, no one could say. In language she was uniformly correct, without seeming at all scholastic; she occasionally used the idioms and dialectic peculiarities of those around her, though never with the air of ...

— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne

... mother before her! Like a small elephant, she would put out her little foot, and tap, and sound, to see if the surface would bear her—if the questionable spot was what it looked to her mistress, or what she herself doubted it. When she had once made up her mind in the negative, no foolish attempt of mine could overpersuade her—could make her trust our weight on it a hair's-breadth. In a bog the greenest spots are the most dangerous, and Zoe knew it: the matted roots might ...

— The Flight of the Shadow • George MacDonald

... another question, to which, judging by her manner, she attached a certain importance. She wished to know if the oyster-omelet (accompanying the cheese) had been received as a welcome dish, and treated with a just recognition of its merits. The answer to this was decidedly in the negative. Mr. Romayne and Miss Eyrecourt had declined to taste it. My lord had tried it, and had left it on his plate. My lady alone had really eaten her share of the misplaced dish. Having stated this apparently trivial ...

— The Black Robe • Wilkie Collins

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