negative

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 68.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.

   The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.

2. adjective Of a number: less than zero.

   I was out in negative weather today.

3. adjective Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.

   I was out in negative weather today.

4. adjective Of a test result: not positive, not detected.

   negative detection of.

5. adjective Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
6. adjective Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
7. adjective Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.

   I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.

8. adjective Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.

Similar words

non bad dissentient disadvantageous dissident dissenting antagonistic dismissive veto blackball

Often followed by

and effects impact effect consequences feedback or in charge

Word family

negate negated negates negating negatived negatively negativeness negativenesses negatives negativing