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Adjective

negative (comparative more negative, superlative most negative)

1. Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
   • The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.

   Synonyms:

   bad, undesirable, abysmal, atrocious, awful, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious

   Antonyms:

   positive, good, acceptable, agreeable, all right, amazing, as fine as Dick's hatband, awesome, beatific, bene

2. Of a number: less than zero.

   Antonyms:

   positive, nonnegative

   1. Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
      • I was out in negative weather today.
3. Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
   • negative detection of.
4. Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
5. Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
   • Marx had said that the negative freedom of the liberal bourgeois tradition would have no place in socialist society, as it only expressed the antagonistic character of society.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...

   Synonyms:

   negatory

   Antonyms:

   affirmative, intensifying, intensive, intensitive

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