adj · intj · noun · verb · 40 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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/ˈnɛɡ.ə.tɪv/
[-ɾɪv]t-flapping
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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adj
Meaning 1
Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.
Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Age, derogatory, jargon
Examples
2011, Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want, Body, Mind & Spirit, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hf5qEW9n_fsC&pg=PT109&dq=positive+feelings&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MkX-T8PQCo6KmQXjr4GhBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=unwanted%20feelings&f=false The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages... Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.
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adj
Meaning 11
Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 12
HIV negative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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adj
Meaning 13
COVID-19 negative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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14
adj
Meaning 14
No, not any, zero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: excessive
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intj
Meaning 15
No; nay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 16
Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 17
An unfavorable point or characteristic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 18
A right of veto.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
Examples
1983, INS v. Chadha, Opinion of the Court In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.
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noun
Meaning 19
An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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Antonyms: positive
20
noun
Meaning 20
A word that indicates negation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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21
noun
Meaning 21
A negative quantity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 22
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, weightlifting
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noun
Meaning 23
The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 24
A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
