Another word for negative
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Adjective
Tending to discourage, retard, or make more difficult
- Improper; unseemly:
- Unfavorable or adverse:
- Not satisfactory; inadequate.
- Likely to be a hindrance; disadvantageous:
- Having or showing opposition; adverse:
- Detrimental; unfavorable.
- Acting or serving to oppose; antagonistic:
- Contrary to one's interests or welfare; harmful or unfavorable:
- Moving in an opposite or opposing direction:
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Verb
To prevent or forbid authoritatively
- A water sprite of German mythology, usually in human form or half-human and half-fish.
- The constitutional power of the chief executive of a state or nation to prevent or delay the enactment of legislation passed by the legislature:
- An instance in which this right is exercised:
- An official document or message from a chief executive stating the reasons for rejection of a bill.
- A negative vote, especially one that blocks the admission of an applicant to an organization.
- A small black ball used as a negative ballot.
- To vote against, especially to veto the admission of.
Idioms:See also:To refuse to admit the truth, reality, value, or worth of
- To travel or pass across, over, or through:
- To move to and fro over; cross and recross:
- To go up, down, or across (a slope) diagonally, as in skiing.
- To oppose, contradict, or call into question.
- To make ineffective or invalid; nullify:
- To make negative:
- To perform the machine logic operation NOT gate.
- To declare to be false; deny.
- To oppose (someone), especially by contradiction:
- To reject (a determination or obligation that is subject to approval).
- To declare untrue; assert to be false:
- To refuse to believe; reject:
- To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow:
- To raise arguments against; voice opposition to.
- To act or be in violation of (a law, directive, or principle, for example); violate:
- To be inconsistent with; be contrary to:
- To assert to be untrue, often by saying the opposite:
- To assert the opposite of a statement or idea put forward by (someone).
- To be contrary to; be inconsistent with:
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Another word for negative
Modifier
Involving a refusal
- Present participle of negate.
- Present participle of nullify.
- Present participle of disallow.
- the act or an instance of opposing, refusing, or denying
- that opposes, refuses, etc., esp. habitually
- Present participle of reject.
- Present participle of contravene. (to act contrary or to deny something.)
- Present participle of impugn.
- Opposition, especially in speech.
- Refusal to accept or believe something.
- Contradiction.
- One of the Roman Catholics in England who incurred legal and social penalties in the 1500s and afterward for refusing to attend services of the Church of England.
- A dissenter; a nonconformist.
- Arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive:
- Contradictory; inconsistent.
- Relating to or characteristic of an adversary; involving antagonistic elements:
- Acting or serving to oppose; antagonistic:
- Contrary to one's interests or welfare; harmful or unfavorable:
- Moving in an opposite or opposing direction:
- Opposed, as in character or purpose:
- Opposite in direction or position:
- Moving in the opposite direction at a fixed interval:
- Involving, of the nature of, or being a contradiction:
- Given to contradicting:
- Either of two propositions related in such a way that it is impossible for both to be true or both to be false.
- Present participle of disavow.
- Dissenting, especially from the sentiment or policies of a majority.
- A dissenter.
- Present participle of deny.
Antonyms:Lacking positive qualities
- Present participle of invalidate.
- Present participle of abrogate.
- Present participle of annul.
- (American) Alternative spelling of neutralising; present participle of neutralize.
- Causing deprivation, lack, or loss.
- Altering the meaning of a term from positive to negative.
- A privative prefix or suffix, such as a-, non-, un-, or -less.
- Distant in space, time, or nature; remote.
- Separated in relationship by a given degree of descent:
- Not present; missing:
- Not existent; lacking:
- Exhibiting or feeling inattentiveness:
Antonyms:Pessimistic
- Having a low temperature:
- Being at a temperature that is less than what is required or what is normal:
- Chilled by refrigeration or ice:
- Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold:
- Giving or suggesting relief from heat:
- Marked by calm self-control:
- Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.
- Moody and melancholy; dejected.
- Gloomy; dismal.
- The quality or state of being moody, melancholy, and gloomy or an instance of it:
- Not interested in something; having no interest.
- Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others:
- Selfishly or callously calculating:
- Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness:
Noun
A refusal
- The act of refuting.
- Something, such as an argument, that refutes someone or something.
- A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (someone).
- The act or an instance of contradicting:
- The state of being contradicted:
- An inconsistency or discrepancy:
A negative image
- A smooth, flat, relatively thin, rigid body of uniform thickness.
- A sheet of hammered, rolled, or cast metal.
- A very thin applied or deposited coat of metal.
- A thin skin or membrane.
- A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
- A thin covering or coating:
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