Definition of "negative" in Anglais

adjective

1. Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.

   • The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
   • Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.

2. (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.

3. (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.

   • negative detection of.

4. (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles

5. (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.

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.

   • 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.

10. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.

11. (slang) HIV negative.

    • 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.

13. (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.

noun

1. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto

2. An unfavorable point or characteristic.

3. (law) A right of veto.

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