Negative
Meanings and phrases
negative
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; damaging
- involving disadvantage or harm; minus
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; disconfirming
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
- less than zero
- having a negative charge; electronegative; negatively charged
negative
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
negative
- vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; veto; blackball
Rh negative
- the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen); Rh-negative blood type; Rh-negative blood
n.
- an affirmative constructed from two negatives
- a grammatically substandard but emphatic negative
n.
- having a surplus of electrons; having a lower electric potential
- This creates a base negative charge on the anode.
- The positive charge is neutralized by the negative charge on the chloride ion.
- For example, a proton has positive charge while an antiproton has negative charge.
n.
- a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1; indirect correlation
- The survey found a negative correlation between fear of death and "religious concern".
- It has a positive correlation with psychological distress, and a negative correlation with self-esteem.
- There is also a negative correlation between the fineness ratio and the swimming ability of reef fish larvae.
n.
- feedback in opposite phase with (decreasing) the input
- its impedance appears reduced) by negative feedback.
- This provides a good example of a negative feedback loop.
- This is a form of negative feedback.
n.
- evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejection
n.
- the pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely; negative pole; south-seeking pole
n.
- an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino; muon; mu-meson
n.
- the pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely; negative magnetic pole; south-seeking pole
- the terminal of a battery that is connected to the negative plate
n.
- a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it; negative reinforcing stimulus
n.
- a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it; negative reinforcer
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- The game generally received very negative reviews.
- It received largely negative reviews from critics.
- The film has received generally negative reviews.
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- Robert Christgau gave the album a negative review.
- The game received a negative review in Riki magazine.
- Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gave a negative review.
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- However, they also come with negative effects.
- The Canadian economy has seen negative effects as well.
- Caffeine can have negative effects on anxiety disorders.
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- It received positive and negative critical notice.
- These have both positive and negative aspects.
- Ionic bonding leads to separate positive and negative ions.
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- Elephants can have a negative impact on ecosystems.
- That platforms have a net negative impact on the environment.
- I don't see how this has any negative impact at all for O'Dwyer.
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- There is no evidence of a negative effect of French invasion."
- Emigration too had a negative effect on the growth of cities in Quebec.
- It also has a negative effect on the accuracy of navigational instruments.
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- Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation, positive or negative.
- The target stimuli consist of words with known positive or negative valence.
- white or black names) or words which have obvious positive or negative valence.
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- Some reviewers presented more negative critiques.
- Other commentators were more negative about the single.
- Some critics viewed "Paranoid" in a more negative light.
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- The film has received generally negative reviews.
- The game received generally negative reviews.
- The Saturn version received generally negative reviews.
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- Critical reception to the film was mostly negative.
- "Sphere" received mostly negative reviews from critics.
- The game received mostly negative reviews.
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- This would have important negative consequences a century later.
- There are other negative consequences resulting from a defaulted loan.
- Bolivia is especially vulnerable to the negative consequences of climate change.
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- Contemporary U.S. reviews were mixed to negative.
- The game has received mixed to negative reviews.
- The film received to mixed to negative reviews.
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- Greer resigned in 1997 after her position attracted negative publicity.
- "We considered the lawsuits, the negative publicity that Countrywide had.
- The commercial gained negative publicity and Casio was accused of false advertising.
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- Privatization, however, has had negative impacts as well.
- found that these negative impacts would occur even with a mitigating flood release of 2,500cms.
- Scientific studies have shown minute negative impacts to the physical health of the Zulu sheep.
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- The negative reaction came from both Mormons and non-Mormons.
- When "Balzac" was exhibited in 1898, the negative reaction was not surprising.
- The most surprisingly negative reaction to Arthur came from within the church.
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- The album received a negative reception from critics.
- The book met with some negative reception.
- The film received a mixed to negative reception from critics.
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- The film has received generally negative reviews.
- The game received generally negative reviews.
- The Saturn version received generally negative reviews.
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- "Sphere" received mostly negative reviews from critics.
- The game received mostly negative reviews.
- The film received mostly negative reviews.
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- However, an increase in negative emotions (i.e.
- Social stigma was a main factor predicting negative emotions and regret years later.
- Guilt appears to prompt reparatory behaviors to alleviate the negative emotions that it engenders.
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- These statements further cast Gore in a negative light.
- Some critics viewed "Paranoid" in a more negative light.
- Due to their dietary habits, bald eagles are frequently viewed in a negative light by humans.
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- "TV Guide" gave the film a negative review calling it "a pointless variation on the killer-doll genre".
- "TV Guide" gave the film a negative review, awarding it a score of 1 out of 4, and calling the film "laughable".
- Emanuel Levy of "Variety" gave the film a negative review, writing: ""Autumn in New York" is not a bad picture, just utterly banal.
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- The film has received generally negative reviews.
- The game received generally negative reviews.
- The Saturn version received generally negative reviews.
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- The original Greek word "daimon" does not carry negative connotations.
- This dichotomy sheds light on the negative connotations that Belial held at the time.
- There are those who reject the "gay label" for reasons other than shame or negative connotations.
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- Potho's contemporaries generally held a negative view of his performance.
- Horowitz stated that by 2018 Macerata residents had a more negative view of migrants.
- While 10 surveyed countries have the most negative view (Below 50%) of the United States.
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- It received largely negative reviews from critics.
- Critical reaction to the film was largely negative.
- The game has received largely negative reviews.
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- The game generally received very negative reviews.
- However, Play UK was very negative and gave it 28%.
- Modern reception of the film has been very negative.
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- Fans who flaunt their knowledge receive negative reactions.
- But it was also scrapped due to concern over fans' negative reactions.
- The revelation about Peter's identity garnered both positive and negative reactions from critics.
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- However, she overcomes this and tries to forget the negative comments.
- Many customers referred to it as "terrible", among other negative comments.
- In week 5, they performed "Dynamite", which again received negative comments, but again they were not in the bottom two.
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- "Sphere" received mostly negative reviews from critics.
- The game received mostly negative reviews.
- The film received mostly negative reviews.
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- Jewish characters in Dostoevsky's works have been described as displaying negative stereotypes.
- In one corner, anchor Mike Wallace is praised for debunking negative stereotypes about gay men.
- Even pioneers in training the blind, such as Dorothy Harrison Eustis, harboured negative stereotypes about them.
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- These have both positive and negative aspects.
- These negative aspects are now being rectified by special projects titled "Life-Nature Project".
- The author claims to be "on her side", yet also examines the negative aspects of Thatcher's reign.
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- However, the performing analyzers gave a negative results.
- A 1980 study by Jones and Bell also obtained negative results.
- In 1940 I utilized further methods with high school students, again with negative results.
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- The droplet has no net charge but one positive and one negative side.
- Thus for Asp or Glu with negative side chains, pI = ½(pKa + pKa), where pKa is the side chain pKa.
- They discovered that 1-octanol reduced tremor and did not have the negative side effects of ethanol.
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- B. Vittalacharya cast him in a negative role in "Kanaka Durga Pooja Mahima".
- Glasser mostly ignores the issues of negative role models and stereotypes in choice theory.
- He has performed roles of lead role, negative role, supporting role and villain in various movies.
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- But even this negative connotation cannot be denied in light of the magical texts.
- Past that time, however, the term "dictator" assumed an invariably negative connotation.
- The Russian word "suka" ("сука", literally "bitch") has a different negative connotation than its English equivalent.
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- Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gave a negative review.
- However, the performing analyzers gave a negative results.
- She gave a negative review of the production, and panned Chopra's "auto-tuned" vocals.
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- If groups with a negative outlook were brought together, it would lead to increases of negative attitudes rather than positive.
- Due to the increasing modernization of Bhutan, there are negative attitudes towards those who speak Kheng instead of Dzongkha or the English.
- Stimuli that elicited positive attitudes produced immediate positive behavior whilst stimuli that elicited negative attitudes triggered immediate avoidance behavior.
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- Her selection garnered negative press in her home country.
- The attack brought the town negative press coverage worldwide.
- The 2011 Man Booker Prize attracted a great deal of negative press.
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- When the negative pressure approximately reaches the value of 9 MPa, cavitation occurs.
- New devices are being developed in order to control the bleeding using negative pressure .
- Cavitation occurs when negative pressure causes bubbles (cavities) to form in a liquid, which then promptly and violently collapse.
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- They tend to be calm, emotionally stable, and free from persistent negative feelings.
- Therefore, their donation helped reduce these negative feelings according to the model.
- People may also refuse to give or receive it due to negative feelings or sexual inhibitions.
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- The sum can be evaluated for negative values of the index .
- The international kinetic theory temperature of a body cannot take negative values.
- It can take positive or negative values, but is zero if "X" and "Y" are independent.
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- Caffeine can have both positive and negative health effects.
- Alcohol intoxication is the negative health effects due to the recent drinking of ethanol (alcohol).
- For this reason and other possible negative health effects, some benign tumors are removed by surgery.
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- This eventually led to the sport taking on a negative image.
- Others deplored the negative image that the braceros' departure produced for the Mexican nation.
- West recites lines that depict a negative image and reveal feelings of opposition towards the lady he is referencing.
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- Reviews for "Wild 90" were overwhelmingly negative.
- "Unwind" received one overwhelmingly negative review from CANOE.
- The film received an overwhelmingly negative critical response in France.
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- Spray paint has many negative environmental effects.
- The song is about the growth of suburbia and its negative environmental and social aspects.
- Byrne tried to kill the proposal because of the negative environmental impact it would have.
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- The reason was the negative attitude of local population.
- There is also sometimes a workplace stigma and negative attitude towards those with dyslexia.
- Angle later conceded that his negative attitude toward the industry was misguided and "stupid".
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- In short, even innocuous treatments can indirectly produce negative outcomes.
- These findings mean that in the right circumstances, groupthink does not always have negative outcomes.
- Internal self-justification helps make the negative outcomes more tolerable and is usually elicited by hedonistic dissonance.
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- This negative influence can be seen in the economic theory of comparative advantage.
- Homer fears that John will have a negative influence on his son Bart and decides to ensure Bart's heterosexuality by taking him hunting.
- Wein explains that he is no longer exerting negative influence upon Lushati and also explains the events that led up to his change of heart.
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- The video received negative attention and caused a media backlash.
- Day received significant negative attention after two high-profile arrests.
- This act garnered negative attention from critics and some animal rights activists.
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- Chinese mathematicians were the first to use negative numbers.
- The four steps are: The engine represents negative numbers as ten's complements.
- It allows some of the edge weights to be negative numbers, but no negative-weight cycles may exist.
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- Constraint (3) assures no negative traffic.
- Every nonnegative real number has a square root in R, although no negative number does.
- The graph on the left of the illustration has two negative edges, but no negative cycles.
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- The violence towards Manuel caused rare negative criticism of the show.
- The album was met with a mix of some positive and some negative criticism.
- However, McClennen notes that he does not offer only negative criticism of the topic.
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- Amateurism can be seen in both a negative and positive light.
- fight between negative and positive.
- Juice Wrld himself considered the emo label to be both negative and positive.
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- It received positive and negative critical notice.
- The film received an overwhelmingly negative critical response in France.
- "Passer By" received negative critical reaction from the "New Statesman".
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- Reviews for the film were extremely negative.
- Israel's initial attitude toward rock music was extremely negative.
- "Darkness" received extremely negative reviews from both critics and audiences.
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- Many critics have negative views of the new stadium.
- The negative views towards Wollstonecraft persisted for over a century.
- Polls have shown that some Filipinos hold negative views directed against the Moro people.
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- When measured with an affect intensity measure, women reported greater intensity of both positive and negative affect than men.
- Due to their migration, Ormella identified the negative affect it had on her family and felt a separation from her European life.
- When a person sitting in a bus witnesses a pregnant woman or an old person standing, negative affect will be induced on the witness.
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- We already let the negative energy out.
- Solutions of the Dirac equation contained negative energy quantum states.
- The cutting phase entails remaining in a net negative energy balance (calorie deficit).
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- Day received significant negative attention after two high-profile arrests.
- Current vampire bat management practices have serious and significant negative effects on its population.
- "Strategic defaults" became common, as homeowners with significant negative equity simply abandoned the home and the debt.
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- Spray paint has many negative environmental effects.
- Despite many negative reviews, "Atlas Shrugged" became an international bestseller.
- There are many negative economic and political issues that this can cause, as well as ethical issues.
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- The exterior is termed the negative space, and can be as important in the representation as the figure.
- This series of views, called the "Drop-Out series" were constructed from the negative space around a breast.
- The incorporation of negative space that had begun in the Drop-Out series was continued into a new medium and format.