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Another word for negative

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Adjective

  1. Tending to discourage, retard, or make more difficult

    See also:

    help

Verb

  1. To prevent or forbid authoritatively

    Idioms:
    See also:

    accept

  2. To refuse to admit the truth, reality, value, or worth of

    See also:

    affirm

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Another word for negative

Modifier

  1. Involving a refusal

    Antonyms:

  2. Lacking positive qualities

    Antonyms:

  3. Pessimistic

Noun

  1. A refusal

    See also:

    refusal

    denial

  2. A negative image

    See also:

    picture

    image

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Sentence Examples

  • What makes you so negative about him?

  • I try to resurrect my first impression of Howard Abbott not colored by Quinn's negative appraisal.

  • This approach has a long and mostly negative history.

  • She could find no negative remarks about the self-made man.

  • the working of several instruments from one set of batteries or accumulators, is adopted, the positive and negative currents have to be sent from independent batteries, as shown by fig.

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