Meaning of negative | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
2. minus sign
3. Of a number: less than zero.
4. Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
5. Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
6. Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
7. Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
8. Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
   often
9. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
10. Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
11. Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
    New-Age, derogatory, jargon
12. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
13. HIV negative.
    slang
14. COVID-19 negative.
    slang
15. No, not any, zero.
    excessive

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

“I was out in negative weather today.”

“negative detection of.”

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

“The nitro group is negative.”

“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, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hf5qEW9n_fsC&pg=PT109&dq=positive+feelings&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MkX-T8PQCo6KmQXjr4GhBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=unwanted%20feelings&f=false 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The negative contact we get inside here [prison] is enough to make you even more bitter and further alienated from society and ourselves.”

“The hell? I wish I could follow you on that, but it makes negative sense.”

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