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negative(1) (iou)

negative adjective & interjection. LME.
[Old & mod. French negatif, -ive or late Latin negativus, formed as NEGATE: see -IVE.]
A. adjective.
I. Opp. AFFIRMATIVE adjective.
Of a person: making denial of something. rare. LME-M18.
Expressing, conveying, or implying negation or denial. LME.
b. spec. in Logic. Expressing the disagreement of the terms of a proposition. M16.
Of a command, statute, etc.: prohibitory. E16.
b. Expressing refusal; refusing consent. M16.
c. Able to impose a veto. Long rare. M17.
Theology. = APOPHATIC. M20.
II. Opp. POSITIVE adjective III.
Consisting in, characterized by, or expressing the absence or lack of features or qualities, rather than their presence. Also, consisting in or characterized by unhelpful or destructive attitudes; pessimistic, defeatist. M16.
J. Barzun The effort to please becomes negativethe avoidance..of pain. I. Wallace He had been shackled by countless negative fears. D. Francis The negative attitude which erects a barrier against sympathy. B. Moore I don't want to be negative, but I don't see how we could get away.
b. Of evidence, an experimental result, etc.: providing no support for a particular hypothesis, esp. one concerning the presence or existence of something. Of a test or experiment, or the subject of one: producing such a result (freq. postpositive in comb.). L18.
rhesus negative etc.
c. attrib. Not any, no. colloq. L20.
Of a quantity: less than zero, to be subtracted, not positive. L17.
b. Reckoned, situated, or tending in a direction opposite to the positive and taken as the direction of decrease or reversal. E19.
Orig., designating that form of electricity produced by friction on resin, wax, rubber, etc. (= RESINOUS 5). Now, designating electric charge, potential, etc., having the same polarity as that electrode of a voltaic cell towards which the current is held to flow (and away from which the actual flow of electrons occurs); possessing such charge. M18.
b. Designating a south-seeking pole of a magnet; having the polarity of the earth's north pole. M19.
Optics. Of, pertaining to, or displaying birefringence in which the refractive index of the extraordinary ray is less than that of the ordinary ray. M19.
Of a visual image, esp. a photograph: showing the lights and shades (and colour values) reversed from those of the original. M19.
Of, pertaining to, or designating a mould or reverse impression of an object. E20.
Special collocations & comb.: negative capability (orig., the poet John Keats' term for) the ability to accept lack of knowledge and certainty, regarded as a quality of the creative artist; now also, empathy. negative catalysis: see CATALYSIS 2. negative equity the indebtedness that occurs when the value of a property falls to below the outstanding amount of a mortgage secured on it. negative eugenics the practice of attempting to prevent the birth of children considered likely to be defective, degenerate, or of unfit parentage. negative FEEDBACK. negative glow Physics a luminous region in a low-pressure discharge tube between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space. negative-going adjective increasing in magnitude in the direction of negative polarity; becoming less positive or more negative. negative growth Biology the cessation or reversal of growth in an organism in response to starvation or Other unfavourable conditions. negative income tax: see INCOME noun1. negative instance an instance of the non-occurrence of something. negative pedal: see PEDAL noun1 4. negative pole the south-seeking pole of a magnet. negative resistance the phenomenon or property whereby an increase in the potential difference across the terminals of certain electrical devices (e.g. an arc lamp) causes a drop in the current flowing. negative sign = MINUS sign. negative transfer the transfer of effects from the learning of one skill which hinder the learning of another. negative transference transference of negative or hostile feelings, esp. (Psychoanalysis) in a patient's perception, from the patient to the analyst. negative virtue abstention from vice.
b. interjection. No. Chiefly N. Amer. (orig. Military). M20.
negatively adverb LME.
negativeness noun L17.

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