negative🔊

Not positive nor neutral. +

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

(mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.

(weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.

(linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept. +

Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.

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.

(chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.

(New Age jargon, derogatory) To be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.

Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.

(slang) HIV negative.

(slang) COVID-19 negative.

(hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.

Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto

An unfavorable point or characteristic.

(law) A right of veto.

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

(grammar) A word that indicates negation.

(mathematics) A negative quantity.

(weightlifting) 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.

(logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.

To refuse; to veto.

To contradict.

To disprove.

To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.

(law, signalling) No; nay.