negative
负面的,负面,负的,否定
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- : expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- : refusing consent, as to a proposal: a negative reply to my request.
- : expressing refusal to do something: He maintained a negative attitude about cooperating.
- : prohibitory, as a command or order.
- : characterized by the absence of distinguishing or marked qualities or features; lacking positive attributes: a dull, lifeless, negative character.
- : lacking in constructiveness, helpfulness, optimism, cooperativeness, or the like: a man of negative viewpoint.
- : encouraging or noting an unhealthy or unbalanced outlook toward something, especially toward sex or sexuality:The song has a body-negative message.
- : being without rewards, results, or effectiveness: a search of the premises proved negative.
- : Mathematics, Physics. involving or noting subtraction; minus.measured or proceeding in the direction opposite to that which is considered as positive.
- : Photography. noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.
- : Electricity. of, relating to, or characterized by negative electricity. indicating a point in a circuit that has a lower potential than that of another point, the current flowing from the point of higher potential to the point of lower potential.
- : Medicine/Medical. failing to indicate the presence of a specified medical condition or substance. failing to indicate the presence of the medical condition or substance tested for:Test results for skin cancer were negative. not having a specified medical condition, or not having a specified substance in the body:She tested negative for a staph infection.I'm Rh-negative.
- : Chemistry. tending to gain electrons and become negatively charged; acid.
- : Physiology. responding in a direction away from the stimulus.
- : of, relating to, or noting the south pole of a magnet.
- : Logic. denying the truth of the predicate with regard to the subject.
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- : a negative statement, answer, word, gesture, etc.: The ship signaled back a negative.
- : a refusal of assent: to answer a request with a negative.
- : the negative form of statement.
- : a person or number of persons arguing against a resolution, statement, etc., especially a team upholding the negative side in a formal debate.
- : a negative quality or characteristic.
- : disadvantage; drawback: The plan is generally brilliant, but it has one or two negatives.
- : a negative test result:Her test for the infection was a negative.
- : Mathematics. a minus sign.a negative quantity or symbol.
- : Photography. a negative image, as on a film, used chiefly for making positives.
- : Electricity. the negative plate or element in a voltaic cell.
- : Archaic. a veto, or right of veto: The delegation may exercise its negative.
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- : : “You won't come with us?” “Negative.”
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neg·a·tived, neg·a·tiv·ing.
- : to deny; contradict.
- : to refute or disprove.
- : to refuse assent or consent to; veto.
- : to neutralize or counteract.
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- : : Negative, pilot—complete your mission as directed.
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Examples
Attitudes toward China have turned negative in the past few years.
I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus.
This was a clue that the polio virus used in the vaccines might not have been fully inactivated as was intended even though the samples otherwise tested negative for live polio virus.
In an election year, and after dealing with many negative blows to its image, Facebook is trying to reestablish itself as the original social-media company, which in the case of Campus means turning back to its roots.
More than 70% of the posts were negative, while only 13% of the comments were positive.
Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized, and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.
In addition to the negative on-field attention, off-the-field problems were just as bad this year.
The negative headlines and accusations of sexual assault continue.
He says he has yet to experience any negative feedback from the galaxy of Whovians.
Before Louis could answer in the negative, he heard voices in the adjoining garden.
The great majority belong to the colon bacillus group, and are negative to Gram's method of staining.
This is a minute, slender rod, which lies within and between the pus-corpuscles (Fig. 125), and is negative to Gram's stain.
The organism is a short, thick diplobacillus, is frequently intracellular, and is Gram-negative (Fig. 126).
The press censorship is a negative evil in London; in Cairo there is no doubt it is positive.