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designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"

having a negative electric charge; "electrons are negative"

involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"

a piece of photographic film showing an image with black and white tones reversed

a reply of denial; "he answered in the negative"

expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"

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"

less than zero; "a negative number"

not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; "the HIV test was negative"

designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"

having a negative electric charge; "electrons are negative"

involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"

a piece of photographic film showing an image with black and white tones reversed

a reply of denial; "he answered in the negative"

expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"

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"

(mathematics) less than zero; "a negative number"

Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.

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 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.

A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.

The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.

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.

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.

The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.

To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.

To neutralize the force of; to counteract.

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.

Metalloidal; nonmetallic; - contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.

Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.

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 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.

A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.

The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.

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.

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.

The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.

To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.

To neutralize the force of; to counteract.

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.

Metalloidal; nonmetallic; - contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.

A refusal or denial; the side of a question which denies what the opposite side affirms; as, to support the negative in a debate; a word expressing denial; as, to reply with a negative; right of veto; a picture in which right and left and light and shade are the reverse of those in the original: used to print a positive picture; in mathematics, a quantity less than zero or the symbol denoting such a quantity; in electricity, the plate in the cell which is not positive.

To deny the truth of; to refuse assent to; dismiss or reject by vote.

Implying refusal or denial; refusing assent; not positive; having the power of veto; in mathematics, noting a quantity to be subtracted; in photography, showing left and right, and dark and light reversed.

Negatively.

Negatively.

That denies: implying absence: that stops or restrains: (logic) denying the connection between a subject and predicate: (algebra) noting a quantity to be subtracted.

A proposition by which something is denied: (gram.) a word that denies.

To prove the contrary: to reject by vote.

NEGATIVENESS.

Negatively.

NEGATIVENESS.

Something expressing negation or denial.

Phot. A picture having the lights and shades reversed.

Expressing denial, nothingness, the absence of result; sign.

Glass plate upon which photograph is taken; print from same is called a positive.

A denial, or word indicating it.

Denying; implying absence.

To prove the contrary; deny or reject.

Implying denial, absence, or refusal; having the power of vetoing.

A proposition by which something is denied; a word that denies; the right of veto; the opposite of the affirmative; a photograph in which the lights and shades of the object are the reverse of those in nature.

To prove the contrary; to reject by vote. Negative electricity, a deficiency of the electric fluid; resinous electricity. Negative pregnants, the negation of the thing implying the affirmation of another. Negative quantity, a minus quantity.

A word which denies, as not, no; a proposition by which something is denied; the right or power of withholding assent; the position taken up by a party who opposes or denies; in photography, a picture, either on paper or glass, having the lights and shadows I reversed, from which positives or ordinary photographs may be taken in unlimited numbers.

Implying denial; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; opposed to affirmative; opposed to positive, as negative morality-that is, that which merely contents itself with abstaining from evil; without positive statement; tending to prove the opposite; having the power of stopping or withholding.

To disprove; to dismiss or reject by a vote; to refuse to enact or sanction.

n. A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden;- a word tat denies, as no; not;- the right, or the exercise of the right to prevent the adoption of a measure or enactment of a law; veto;- state of opposition to or determination against;- a picture upon glass in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material, and the dark portions by the uncovered and semi-transparent ground of the picture.