| negative | |
| 1. adj. Not positive or neutral. | |
| 2. adj. (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles | |
| 3. adj. (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero | |
| 4. adj. (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition. | |
| 5. adj. Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable. | |
| 6. adj. Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. | |
| 7. adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed. | |
| 8. adj. (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic. | |
| The nitro group is negative. | |
| 9. adj. (New Age jargon, pejorative) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted. | |
| 10. adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis. | |
| 11. n. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto | |
| 12. n. (law) A right of veto. | |
| 13. n. (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. | |
| 14. n. (grammar) A word that indicates negation. | |
| 15. n. (mathematics) A negative quantity. | |
| 16. n. (weightlifting): 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. | |
| 17. n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. | |
| 18. v. To refuse; to veto. | |
| 19. v. To contradict. | |
| 20. v. To disprove. | |
| 21. v. To make ineffective; to neutralize. | |
| 22. interj. (law, signalling) An elaborate synonym for no. | |
