Definition of NEGATIVE

negative

Plural: negatives

Noun

  • a reply of denial
    • "he answered in the negative"
  • a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
  • Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
  • An unfavorable point or characteristic.
  • A right of veto.
  • An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
  • A word that indicates negation.
  • A negative quantity.
  • 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.
  • The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
  • A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.

Verb

Verb Forms: negatived, negativing, negatives

  • To veto or reject a proposal or decision.
  • vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
  • To refuse; to veto.
  • To contradict.
  • To disprove.
  • To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.

Adjective

  • characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
    • "a negative outlook on life"
    • "a colorless negative personality"
    • "a negative evaluation"
    • "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign"
  • expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
  • not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
    • "the HIV test was negative"
  • reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
    • "negative interest rates"

Adjective Satellite

  • having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
    • "ran a negative campaign"
    • "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"
  • less than zero
    • "a negative number"
  • designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
    • "negative criticism"
  • having a negative charge
    • "electrons are negative"
  • involving disadvantage or harm
    • "minus (or negative) factors"

Adj

  • Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
  • Of a number: less than zero.
  • Of a number: less than zero.
  • Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
  • Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
  • Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
  • Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
  • Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
  • Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
  • Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
  • Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
  • Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
  • HIV negative.
  • COVID-19 negative.
  • No, not any, zero.

Intj

  • No; nay.

Examples

  • Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.
  • He had to negative his initial word choice, realizing it wasn’t valid in Words With Friends.
  • I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.
  • I was out in negative weather today.
  • negative detection of.
  • The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
  • The nitro group is negative.
  • You can’t prove a negative.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.

Scrabble Score: 12

negative: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
negative: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
negative: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

negative: valid Words With Friends Word