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1. Characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
   "a negative outlook on life"; "a colourless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"; "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign"
    
2. Expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
    
3. (medicine) not indicating the presence of microorganisms, disease or a specific condition
   "the HIV test was negative";
   - disconfirming
    
4. Reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
   "negative interest rates"
    
5. Having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
   "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"
    
6. (mathematics) less than zero
   "a negative number"
    
7. Designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
   "negative criticism";
   - damaging
    
8. Having a negative charge
   "electrons are negative";
   - electronegative, negatively charged
    
9. Involving disadvantage or harm
   "negative factors";
   - minus

1. A reply of denial
   "he answered in the negative"
    
2. A piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colours reversed
   - neg [informal]

1. Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
   - veto, blackball

Derived forms: negatives, negatived, negativing

See also: antagonistic, bad, charged, counter, destructive, disadvantageous, disinclined, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, Gram-negative, minus, perverse, pessimistic, quality, unfavorable [US], unfavourable [Brit, Cdn], unsupportive

Type of: contradict, controvert, denial, film, oppose, photographic film

Antonym: affirmative, affirmatory, confirming, neutral, positive

Encyclopedia: Negative, I am a meat popsicle