negative in Arabic
سَلْبِيّ salbiyy
/ˈnɛɡ.ə.tɪv/
negative in Arabic: سَلْبِيّ (salbiyy), سَالِب (sālib), مَنْفِيّ (manfiyy), صُورَة سَالِبَة (ṣūra sāliba). In English, negative means not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
Arabic words for negative
- not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable
- سَلْبِيّ salbiyy
- of electrical charge
- سَلْبِيّ salbiyy, سَالِب sālib
- linguistics: denying a proposition
- مَنْفِيّ manfiyy
- pessimistic
- سَلْبِيّ salbiyy
- of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours and relations are reversed
- سَالِب sālib
- chemistry: metalloidal; nonmetallic
- سَالِب sālib
- photography
- صُورَة سَالِبَة ṣūra sāliba
English meaning of negative
- adjective Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
- adjective Of a number: less than zero.
- adjective Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- adjective Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
negative in a sentence
- The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
- Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.
- I was out in negative weather today.
Synonyms of negative
negative in other languages
- negative in Hindi
- negative in Tamil
- negative in Marathi
- negative in Urdu
- negative in Bengali
- negative in Telugu
- negative in Malayalam
- negative in Kannada
- negative in Punjabi
- negative in Gujarati
- negative in Odia
- negative in Nepali
- negative in Tagalog
- negative in Indonesian
- negative in Persian
- negative in Thai
- negative in Vietnamese
Questions about negative in Arabic
- What is the meaning of negative in Arabic?
- Negative in Arabic is سَلْبِيّ (salbiyy), سَالِب (sālib), مَنْفِيّ (manfiyy), صُورَة سَالِبَة (ṣūra sāliba).
- ما معنى كلمة negative؟
- Negative: سَلْبِيّ (salbiyy), سَالِب (sālib), مَنْفِيّ (manfiyy), صُورَة سَالِبَة (ṣūra sāliba).
- What does negative mean in English?
- Negative means not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: negative (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Arabic words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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