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negative nancies

negative nancies is the plural of negative Nancy.

Meaning of negative Nancy

Noun

negative Nancy (plural negative Nancies or negative Nancys)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic, informal) A person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic.
    • "Be wary of being a Negative Nancy."2001, Sara Jane Sluke, Vanessa Torres, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Stress for Teens
    Antonyms:
    positive Polly

Noun (1) capitalized: Negative Nancies

Negative Nancies

  1. (plural) plural of negative Nancy

Noun (2) capitalized: negative Nancies

negative Nancies

  1. (plural) plural of negative Nancy

Questions about negative nancies

What is negative nancies the plural of?
Negative nancies is the plural of negative Nancy.
What part of speech is negative nancies?
Negative nancies is a noun.

Words near negative nancies in the dictionary

  1. negative lookahead
  2. negative lookaheads
  3. negative lookaround
  4. negative lookbehind
  5. negative lookbehinds
  6. negative nancies
  7. negative nancy
  8. negative nancys
  9. negative Ned
  10. negative Neds
  11. negative Nellies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: negative nancies (page history and authors); Negative Nancies (page history and authors); negative Nancies (page history and authors); negative Nancy (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.

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