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English to English adjective
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characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features |  | Example: a negative outlook on life
a colorless negative personality
a negative evaluation
a negative reaction to an advertising campaign
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expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | | source: wordnet30
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not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | | Example: the HIV test was negative
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reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | | Example: negative interest rates
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Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | | Example: ran a negative campaign
delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life
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less than zero | | Example: a negative number
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designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | | Example: negative criticism
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having a negative charge | | Example: electrons are negative
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involving disadvantage or harm | | Example: minus (or negative) factors
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a reply of denial | | Example: he answered in the negative
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a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | | source: wordnet30
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A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception. | | source: webster1913 verb
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vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | | Example: The President vetoed the bill
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To prove unreal or untrue; to disprove. | | source: webster1913
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