Word.ws English Dictionary

negativate

negativate verb: negate.

Verb

negativate (third-person singular simple present negativates, present participle negativating, simple past and past participle negativated)

  1. negate
    • He says magnetism and electricity are nearly akin, and then shows in what slight respect they differ; so it is not clear to me how he can “entirely negativate” his statement.1882, The Electrical Review, page 377
    • That in itself would be inflationary and would negativate the effects of the food subsidies.1974, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report

Forms of negativate

third-person singular presentnegativates
present participlenegativating
past participlenegativated
pastnegativated

Questions about negativate

What does negativate mean?
Negativate means negate.
What part of speech is negativate?
Negativate is a verb.
What is the past tense of negativate?
The past tense of negativate is negativated.

Words near negativate in the dictionary

  1. negationists
  2. negations
  3. negatism
  4. negatisms
  5. negatival
  6. negativate
  7. negativated
  8. negativates
  9. negativating
  10. negativation
  11. negativations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: negativate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “negativate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/negativate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.