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▸ adjective: (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
▸ adjective: (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero
▸ adjective: (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
▸ adjective: (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition.
▸ adjective: Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
▸ adjective: (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
▸ adjective: Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
▸ adjective: (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
▸ adjective: (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
▸ adjective: Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
▸ adjective: (slang) HIV negative.
▸ adjective: (slang) COVID-19 negative.
▸ adjective: (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
▸ noun: Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
▸ noun: An unfavorable point or characteristic.
▸ noun: (law) A right of veto.
▸ noun: (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
▸ noun: (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
▸ noun: (mathematics) A negative quantity.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
▸ noun: (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
▸ verb: (transitive) To refuse; to veto.
▸ verb: (transitive) To contradict.
▸ verb: (transitive) To disprove.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.
Similar:
non,
disadvantageous,
bad,
dissident,
dissenting,
dissentient,
dismissive,
antagonistic,
veto,
harmful,
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double,
photographic,
original,
false,
positive,
gram,
direct,
absolute,
emphatic,
universal,
second
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