How to pronounce “negative”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
• (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.
• (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
• (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles [from the 18th c.]
• (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
• (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
• Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
• (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
• (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
• Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
• (slang) HIV negative.
• (slang) COVID-19 negative.
• (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
• [Noun]
• Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto [from 15th c.]
• An unfavorable point or characteristic.
• (law) A right of veto.
• (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. [from 19th c.]
• (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
• (mathematics) A negative quantity.
• (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
• The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To refuse; to veto.
• (transitive) To contradict.
• (transitive) To disprove.
• (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.
• [Interjection]
• (law, signalling) No; nay.

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