negative

negative

negative (third-person singular simple present negatives, present participle negativing, simple past and past participle negatived)

1. To veto
2. To contradict
3. To disprove

negative (plural negatives)

1. refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition [from the 15th c.]
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional

     Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely […] made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford. The Abbot, a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a negative.

2. (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse [from the 19th c.]
3. (grammar) a word that indicates negation
4. (mathematics) a negative quantity
5. (weightlifting): 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.

negative (comparative more negative, superlative most negative)

1. not positive or neutral
2. pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.)

   • I dont like to hang around him very much, because he can be so negative about his petty problems.

3. damaging; undesirable; unfavourable

   • The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.

     Customers didnt like it: feedback was mostly negative.

4. (mathematics) of number, less than zero
5. (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles [from the 18th c.]
6. (linguistics) (logic) denying a proposition

	negativo
	not positive
	of electrical charge
	mathematics
	photography

	negativa
	grammar
	photography

contrario

lastra

malevolo

negative

negazione

ostile

pellicola per negativi

respingere

Altri significati:

(mathematics) of number, less than zero

damaging; undesirable; unfavourable

(physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles

To disprove

(photographic) negative

Less than zero.

(photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse

Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial.

(grammar) a word that indicates negation

not positive or neutral

(weightlifting): 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.

inherently damaging

pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.

(mathematics) a negative quantity

To contradict

negative (of a picture)

To veto

refusal or withholding of assents; veto

in mathematics

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