Definition of the word negative

Recent Examples on the Web

Now, that masking period is a strong recommendation, unless an individual tests negative on back-to-back tests taken at least one day apart.


—Rong-gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023




The approach teaches you to restructure your negative and irrational thoughts around money into more neutral or positive ones.


—Jocelyn Solis-moreira, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023




Just Looking to Get More Info on You? Initial reaction online to GM’s move skewed decidedly negative.


—Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 2 Apr. 2023




Amber Lee, Brawley’s campaign manager, said the level of public vandalism creates a negative, discouraging environment for candidates and for voters.


—Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2023




According to research from Yale, people with negative attitudes about aging shorten their life expectancy by 7.5 years.


—L’oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 1 Apr. 2023




Viewers’ initial reactions to the trial appeared to skew negative, with some seeing Paltrow as the latest example of a celebrity who is trying to avoid accountability.


—Uwa Ede-osifo, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023




Though most of the comments on the post were positive, some users felt the need to give their negative opinions on her looks.


—Rosa Sanchez, Harper’s BAZAAR, 30 Mar. 2023




That way, potentially negative news doesn’t derail the conversation or serve as the last thing that sticks in concerned clients’ minds.


—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023

But some designers don’t see having a diminutive dozing space as a negative.


—Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 7 Apr. 2023




Trump’s negatives with Republicans (19%) are nearly three times worse than those of DeSantis (7%).


—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023




When the judge Florence Y. Pan asked if agents had a fiduciary duty to secure their writers the highest possible advances, Walsh responded in the negative.


—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2022




Overwhelmingly, the comments in response — almost 2,000 of them — were in the negative.


—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023




In contrast to the themes of balance in the first quarter moon, the third quarter is about detaching yourself from the negative to prepare for transformation.


—Aliza Pelto, Women’s Health, 17 Mar. 2023




The social mandate was to be carbon neutral or carbon negative, and scalable.


—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023




Each end of tape has two contacts, one positive (+), one negative (-).


—Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023




The photographs were known as Ambrotypes, and consisted of a glass negative developed so the silver deposit forming the picture was white, and then backed with black, so the picture looked like a positive, the photo being on the back of the glass.


—San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023

Travelers also need to negative COVID-19 test within one day of flying to return to the United States.


—Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022




Regardless, the outcome of this trial might not impact the ex-couple’s career prospects in all that negative a way, Engelmayer predicted.


—Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 26 May 2022




On the way to scoring a 25-19, 25-9, 25-4 victory, UW was not blocked once, held the Bobcats to negative hitting in each set and in the final set tied a program record for fewest points allowed in a set.


—Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2022




And passengers boarding international flights to the U.S. no longer need to test negative a day before departure or prove recovery from Covid in the past 90 days.


—Allison Pohle, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022




But with sales growth expected to go from triple digits in 2021 to negative this year, shares have tanked to a record low recently.


—Yueqi Yang, Time, 20 Apr. 2022




In response, Moody’s Investors Service recently lowered its outlook for the sector to negative.


—Nick Sargen, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021




Eversource Energy executives are on the defensive after two ratings agencies cut the credit outlook to negative for Connecticut Light & Power, citing its run-ins with state regulators over the utility’s response to Tropical Storm Isaias last year.


—Stephen Singer, courant.com, 2 Aug. 2021




Positive antibody test results, which are by no means an absolute guarantee of immunity, will be accepted to enter, as will negative COVID-19 tests taken up to seven days prior to arrival.


—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2021


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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• −ve (abbreviation)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negativus (“that denies, negative”), from negare (“to deny”); see negate.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛɡətɪv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛɡətɪv/, /-ɾɪv/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ(e)ɡəˌɾɪv/
• Hyphenation: neg‧a‧tive

Adjective[edit]

negative (comparative more negative, superlative most negative)

1. Not positive nor neutral.
2. (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles [from the 18th c.]
3. (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero

   Antonym: nonnegative

   1. (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.

      I was out in negative weather today.

4. (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition.

   Antonym: affirmative

5. Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.

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

   Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.

6. (often used pejoratively) 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.

7. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
8. (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.

   The nitro group is negative.

9. (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
   • 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, page 15

     Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy… In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy).

   • 2011, Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want, Body, Mind & Spirit, [1]

     The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages… Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.

   • 2011, Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies, Hachette, page 118

     If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself… Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.

10. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
11. (slang) HIV negative.
    • quoted in 2013, William I. Johnston, HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (page 145)

      We certainly told him at that time that I was negative. We talked about transmission. We told him we don’t do anything that would cause me to become positive.

12. (slang) COVID-19 negative.

Synonyms[edit]

• (damaging): undesirable

Antonyms[edit]

• positive

Derived terms[edit]

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Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

negative (plural negatives)

1. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto [from 15th c.]

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     “Upon my word, I can’t eat a morsel,” answered the lady […] There is indeed in perfect beauty a power which none almost can withstand; for my landlady, though she was not pleased at the negative given to the supper, declared she had never seen so lovely a creature.

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XV, Practical — Devotional”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely […] made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford. The Abbot, a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a negative.

2. An unfavorable point or characteristic.
3. (law) A right of veto.
   • 1787, Luther Martin, cited in The Constitutional Convention Of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of America’s Founding (2005), Volume 1, page 391

     And as to the Constitutionality of laws, that point will come before the Judges in their proper official character. In this character they have a negative on the laws.

   • 1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, no. 68

     The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; […]

   • 1983, INS v. Chadha, Opinion of the Court

     In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.

4. (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. [from 19th c.]
5. (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
6. (mathematics) A negative quantity.
7. (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
8. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

negative (third-person singular simple present negatives, present participle negativing, simple past and past participle negatived)

1. (transitive) To refuse; to veto.
   • 1887, L. T. Meade, The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls, Chapter XVIII, [2]

     Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12, [3]

     And being of warm blood he had not the phlegm tacitly to negative any proposition by unresponsive inaction.

2. (transitive) To contradict.
   • 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Chapter XXXIII, [4]

     «A comely maid, that,» said the other.

     «True, comely enough. But unless I make a great mistake—» And he negatived the remainder of the definition forthwith.

3. (transitive) To disprove.
   • 1882, J. H. Riddell, «Old Mrs Jones» in The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Dover, 1977, page 192, [5]

     At one time an idea got abroad that the whole tale of her fortune had been a myth; […] but the boastings of various servants who declared they had seen her with “rolls on rolls” of banknotes […] negatived the truth of this statement.

4. (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.

   • 1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Florence Nightingale.] Chapter III”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (Library of English Literature; LEL 11347), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 162:

     «The War Office,» said Miss Nightingale, «is a very slow office, an enormously expensive office, and one in which the Minister’s intentions can be entirely negatived by all his sub-departments, and those of each of the sub-departments by every other.»

   • 1945 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “New Works Procedure”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:

     In the nature of things, much railway capital expenditure on stations and depots was in the immediate vicinity, if not in the heart, of towns, and extensions or remodellings, apart from being extremely costly, may be entirely negatived by the impossibility of securing the necessary land.

   • 1959, Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, translated by G. A. Williamson, Penguin, 1970, Chapter 5, page 98,

     Yet he made his largesse daily more lavish, as he saw the king negativing his efforts by taking care of the orphans and showing his remorse for the murder of his sons by his tenderness towards their little ones.

   • 1963 January, G. Freeman Allen, “Why B.R. are dropping high-power diesel-hydraulics”, in Modern Railways, page 25:

     While the diesel-hydraulic system has been failing to live up to its early promise, development in other directions has negatived some of the advantages which prompted its trial.

Derived terms[edit]

• negativation

Interjection[edit]

negative

1. (law, signalling) No; nay.

Anagrams[edit]

• agentive, gate vein, veganite

Danish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

negative

1. inflection of negativ:
   1. definite attributive positive degree/superlative degree
   2. plural

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

negative

1. inflection of negativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ne.ɡaˈti.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: ne‧ga‧tì‧ve

Adjective[edit]

negative f pl

1. feminine plural of negativo

Noun[edit]

negative f

1. plural of negativa

Anagrams[edit]

• agentive, negatevi, vengiate

Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡaːˈtiː.u̯e/, [nɛɡäːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡaˈti.ve/, [neɡäˈt̪iːve]

Adjective[edit]

negātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of negātīvus

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Adjective[edit]

negative

1. inflection of negativ:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Adjective[edit]

negative

1. inflection of negativ:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Swedish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

negative

1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of negativ.

From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Negative may mean:

• Something negative can be something bad.
• A negative number is a number that is less than zero. 5 — 8 = -3.
• Some people also use negative the same way as «no», or other related words. «Not», «Never», «Nowhere» etc. are all negative words. On two-way radios the word «negative» is used instead of «no» to be clearer.
• In film photography, a film negative is an exposed picture or movie film that has been processed, and is ready to be used to make a print. In a negative, everything in the picture has the opposite color. Things that are white will be black, things that are red will be green, and things that are orange will be blue.
• Negative binary numbers
• Negative charge
• Negative exponent
• Negative feedback, a basic concept of cybernetics; it is the basis of regulation and control. It is important in engineering and physiology. In biology and physiology negative feedback is known as homeostasis
• Negative gravity

neg·a·tive

 (nĕg′ə-tĭv)

adj.

1.

a. Expressing, containing, or consisting of a negation, refusal, or denial: gave a negative answer to our request.

b. Indicating opposition or resistance: a negative reaction to the new advertising campaign.

2. Lacking positive or constructive features, especially:

a. Unpleasant; disagreeable: had a negative experience on his first job.

b. Gloomy; pessimistic: a negative outlook.

c. Unfavorable or detrimental: a negative review; a negative effect on the child’s development.

d. Hostile or disparaging; malicious: ran a negative campaign against her opponent.

3. Medicine Not indicating the presence of a particular disease, condition, or organism.

4. Philosophy Of or relating to non-being or the absence of qualities rather than being or the possession of qualities: the purely negative virtue of unselfishness.

5. Logic Designating a proposition that denies agreement between a subject and its predicate.

6. Mathematics

a. Of or relating to a quantity less than zero.

b. Of or relating to the sign (-).

c. Of or relating to a quantity to be subtracted from another.

d. Of or relating to a quantity, number, angle, velocity, or direction in a sense opposite to another of the same magnitude indicated or understood to be positive.

7. Physics

a. Of or relating to an electric charge of the same sign as that of an electron, indicated by the symbol (-).

b. Of or relating to a body that has more electrons than protons.

8. Chemistry Of or relating to an ion, the anion, that is attracted to a positive electrode.

9. Biology Moving or turning away from a stimulus, such as light: a negative tropism.

n.

1. A statement or act indicating or expressing a contradiction, denial, or refusal.

2.

a. A statement or act that is highly critical of another or of others: campaign advertising that was based solely on negatives.

b. Something that lacks all positive, affirmative, or encouraging features; an element that is the counterpoint of the positive: «Life is full of overwhelming odds. You can’t really eliminate the negatives but you can diminish them» (Art Linkletter).

c. A feature or characteristic that is not deemed positive, affirmative, or desirable: «As voters get to know his liberal views, his negatives will rise» (Richard M. Nixon).

3. Grammar A word or part of a word, such as no, not, or non-, that indicates negation. See Usage Note at double negative.

4. The side in a debate that contradicts or opposes the question being debated.

5.

a. An image in which the light areas of the object rendered appear dark and the dark areas appear light.

b. A film, plate, or other photographic material containing such an image.

6. Mathematics A negative quantity.

tr.v. neg·a·tived, neg·a·tiv·ing, neg·a·tives

1. To refuse to approve; veto.

2. To deny; contradict.

3. To demonstrate to be false; disprove.

4. To counteract or neutralize.

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[Middle English, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus, from negātus, past participle of negāre, to deny; see negate.]

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neg′a·tive·ly adv.

neg′a·tive·ness, neg′a·tiv′i·ty (-tĭv′ĭ-tē) n.

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negative

(ˈnɛɡətɪv)

adj

1. expressing or meaning a refusal or denial: a negative answer.

2. lacking positive or affirmative qualities, such as enthusiasm, interest, or optimism

3. showing or tending towards opposition or resistance

4.

a. measured in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

b. having the same magnitude but opposite sense to an equivalent positive quantity

5. (Biology) biology indicating movement or growth away from a particular stimulus: negative geotropism.

6. (Medicine) med (of the results of a diagnostic test) indicating absence of the disease or condition for which the test was made

7. (Mathematics) another word for minus^3b, minus⁵

8. (General Physics) physics

a. (of an electric charge) having the same polarity as the charge of an electron

b. (of a body, system, ion, etc) having a negative electric charge; having an excess of electrons

c. (of a point in an electric circuit) having a lower electrical potential than some other point with an assigned zero potential

11. (Photography) of or relating to a photographic negative

12. (Logic) logic (of a categorial proposition) denying the satisfaction by the subject of the predicate, as in some men are irrational; no pigs have wings

13. (Astrology) astrology of, relating to, or governed by the signs of the zodiac of the earth and water classifications, which are thought to be associated with a receptive passive nature

n

15. a statement or act of denial, refusal, or negation

16. a negative person or thing

17. (Photography) photog a piece of photographic film or a plate, previously exposed and developed, showing an image that, in black-and-white photography, has a reversal of tones. In colour photography the image is in complementary colours to the subject so that blue sky appears yellow, green grass appears purple, etc

18. (General Physics) physics a negative object, such as a terminal or a plate in a voltaic cell

19. (Linguistics) a sentence or other linguistic element with a negative meaning, as the English word not

20. (Mathematics) a quantity less than zero or a quantity to be subtracted

21. (Logic) logic a negative proposition

22. archaic the right of veto

23. in the negative indicating denial or refusal

sentence substitute

(Military) (esp in military communications) a signal code word for no¹

vb (tr)

24. to deny or nullify; negate

25. to show to be false; disprove

26. to refuse to consent to or approve of: the proposal was negatived.

ˈnegatively adv

ˈnegativeness, ˌnegaˈtivity n

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neg•a•tive

(ˈnɛg ə tɪv)

adj., n., adv., v. -tived, -tiv•ing,
interj. adj.

1. expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.

2. refusing consent, as to a proposal: a negative reply to my request.

3. expressing refusal or resistance: a negative attitude about cooperating.

4. unfavorable: negative criticism.

5. prohibitory, as a command or order.

6. lacking positive attributes (opposed to positive): a negative character.

7. lacking in constructiveness, helpfulness, optimism, or the like: a negative approach to problem solving.

8. being without rewards, results, or effectiveness: a search of the premises proved negative.

9. Math.

a. involving or noting subtraction; minus.

b. measured or proceeding in the direction opposite to that which is considered as positive.

10. Photog. noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.

11.

a. of or pertaining to the electric charge of a body that has an excess of electrons.

b. (of a point in a circuit) having lower potential, therefore drawing the flow of current.

12. Med. failing to show a positive result in a diagnostic test.

13. Chem. (of an element or group) tending to gain electrons and become negatively charged; acid.

14. Physiol. responding in a direction away from the stimulus.

15. of, pertaining to, or noting the S pole of a magnet.

16. Logic. (of a proposition) denying the truth of the predicate with regard to the subject.

n.

17. a negative statement, answer, word, gesture, etc.: The ship signaled back a negative.

18. a refusal of assent: to answer a request with a negative.

19. the negative form of statement.

20. one or more persons arguing against a resolution, statement, etc., esp. a team in a formal debate.

21. a negative quality or characteristic.

22. disadvantage; drawback: a brilliant plan with only one negative.

23. Math.

a. a minus sign.

b. a negative quantity or symbol.

24. Photog. a negative image, as on a film, used chiefly for making positives.

25. Archaic. a veto, or right of veto.

adv.

26. (used to indicate a negative response): “You won’t come with us?” “Negative.”

v.t.

27. to deny; contradict.

28. to refute or disprove (something).

29. to refuse assent or consent to; veto.

30. to neutralize or counteract.

interj.

31. (used to indicate disagreement, denial of permission, etc.)

[1350–1400; Middle English negatif < Middle French < Latin negātīvus denying]

neg′a•tive•ly, adv.

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

neg·a·tive

(nĕg′ə-tĭv)

1. Less than zero, as -3.

2. Having the electric charge of an electron. The symbol for a negative charge is a minus sign.

3. Having more electrons than protons. Negatively charged bodies, such as atoms or molecules, repel other negatively charged bodies but attract positively charged bodies.

4. Not showing the presence of a suspected disease or microorganism, as in a blood test.

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negative

Past participle: negatived
Gerund: negativing

Imperative
negative
negative

Present
I negative
you negative
he/she/it negatives
we negative
you negative
they negative

Preterite
I negatived
you negatived
he/she/it negatived
we negatived
you negatived
they negatived

Present Continuous
I am negativing
you are negativing
he/she/it is negativing
we are negativing
you are negativing
they are negativing

Present Perfect
I have negatived
you have negatived
he/she/it has negatived
we have negatived
you have negatived
they have negatived

Past Continuous
I was negativing
you were negativing
he/she/it was negativing
we were negativing
you were negativing
they were negativing

Past Perfect
I had negatived
you had negatived
he/she/it had negatived
we had negatived
you had negatived
they had negatived

Future
I will negative
you will negative
he/she/it will negative
we will negative
you will negative
they will negative

Future Perfect
I will have negatived
you will have negatived
he/she/it will have negatived
we will have negatived
you will have negatived
they will have negatived

Future Continuous
I will be negativing
you will be negativing
he/she/it will be negativing
we will be negativing
you will be negativing
they will be negativing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been negativing
you have been negativing
he/she/it has been negativing
we have been negativing
you have been negativing
they have been negativing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been negativing
you will have been negativing
he/she/it will have been negativing
we will have been negativing
you will have been negativing
they will have been negativing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been negativing
you had been negativing
he/she/it had been negativing
we had been negativing
you had been negativing
they had been negativing

Conditional
I would negative
you would negative
he/she/it would negative
we would negative
you would negative
they would negative

Past Conditional
I would have negatived
you would have negatived
he/she/it would have negatived
we would have negatived
you would have negatived
they would have negatived

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

negative

A photographic image, plate, or film in which the actual light areas appear dark and vice versa.

Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited

Translations

I think an occasional rest-day is as necessary to the tired brain as the photographer’s dark room is to the development of the negative impression — without it the brain would, indeed, record a «_negative impression_.» ❋ Various (N/A)

And the nearer such part or section may be to the negative pole in the positive post, so much the more _negative_ it will be. ❋ Daniel Clark (N/A)

Its negative pole is the _negative electrode_ in contact with the positive end or pole of magnet No. 2, and its positive pole is the _wire end of the cord_ in the negative post. ❋ Daniel Clark (N/A)

So it is still true that on the negative half of the circuit, the _negative_ qualities _diminish_ as we advance towards the central point just as on the positive half, the _positive_ qualities diminish regularly towards the central point, as stated above. ❋ Daniel Clark (N/A)

Rendering the small ball B inductric and _negative_, negative sparks alone occurred up to 0.40; then spark and brush at 0.42; whilst from 0.44 and upwards the noisy negative brush alone took place. ❋ Michael Faraday (1829)

«Positive RNA viruses package positive RNA into their viral particles, while negative RNA viruses package * negative* RNA into particles.» ❋ Unknown (2010)

T h e word «negative» in negative spaces is a bit unfortunate because it carries, well, a negative connotation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The phrase «negative slave» seems incredibly powerful to me. ❋ Pictureplane (2011)

Many of us learned from our families to deny what we label negative emotions. ❋ Melody Beattie (2010)

Let’s not be scared off by the connotations of the term negative ad. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term negative forces, refers to both the General Laurent Nkunda leading the rebel forces in Democratic Republic of Congo and the Rwandan Hutu rebels in the eastern part. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Present-day terminology employs the rubric negative symptoms (51, 232), but traditionally these behaviors have been termed emotional blunting (116, 552). ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

These are the negative advantages, if the term negative is applicable, which would probably have resulted from prompt movements after Corinth fell into the possession of the National forces. ❋ David Widger (N/A)

In fact, the term negative seems to have become codespeak for knowledgeable and realistic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jamal: Yo you wanna go to the [the gallery].
Jay: Negative…
Or you could say Negativity…
[Jena]: I know you like tha [bul] Jerome!
Mia: Negativity. He looks like a monkey… ❋ E-RoC-Da-bELLs (2005)

Example 1) I made a negative comment about the smell of her [dirtbox] and she [cried].
Example 2) That’s a [negative, Ghostrider]. ❋ KYX! (2003)

After three [bleaching] treatments and four hours a week [under the sun] [lamps], Josh has become a negative. ❋ Atves Zeran (2007)

«Hey, shall we all walk in to the pub [half naked]?»
Response: «[Neg Neg], I’m not [feelin’ that] shit» ❋ Dagsy Parr (2007)

Everywhere there is an insecure pretty girl, there is some guy [negging].
[Negging] can be so [subtle], it’s pratically undetectable.
I was [wondering] why that guy was complimenting me while putting me down. He was negging of course. ❋ MadamexXx (2009)

Person 1: I don’t get why people feel the need to [put me down] as soon as they look at me.
Person 2: They’re Negging you. They probably see how you carry yourself and, based on internal insecurities that they refuse to acknowledge, arrive at the conclusion that you’re too confident and need to be knocked down [a peg].
Person 1: But I’ve never even met them before. And I’m not even as confident as I’d like to be.
Person 2: Doesn’t matter if you are or not, you look it to them, that’s what they perceive and hence that is what they are going to act on. Maybe [stroke up] a conversation with them and try to clear that up. ❋ 2kTriggerz (2020)

[Fire force] [negs] [one piece].(Fire force is better than one piece) ❋ Cudlyyy (2021)

— ‘I just might start [crying] /[neg]’
— ‘[i’m sorry] was that /neg? :(‘ ❋ Leximay003 (2020)

The classic neg
[pua] — «you have beautiful nails, are they real?»
(9+) -«not really»
pua — «Oh, I guess thats still cool»
pua — «that’s really cute, your nose wiggles when you speak»
(9+) -«no it doesn’t»
pua — «ha ha, [there it goes] again, sorry, its just really cute»
«I just kept tossing neg after neg at that 10 standing by the bar, and she loved it, she was giving me crazy [kino]» ❋ Ryder (2005)

Negativity is an [infestation] on [urban dictionary] ❋ Ucuntu And That Faggot Penguin (2019)