negative

Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto

A right of veto.

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

(grammar) A word that indicates negation.

A negative quantity.

: 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.

The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

To refuse; to veto.

To contradict.

To disprove.

To make ineffective; to neutralize.

Not positive nor neutral.

Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles

Of a number: less than zero

Denying a proposition.

Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.

“Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.”

Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.

“I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.”

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.

“The nitro group is negative.”

(New Age jargon) 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

(signalling) An elaborate synonym for no.