negative

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

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

2. sıfat Of a number: less than zero.
3. sıfat Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.

   “I was out in negative weather today.”

4. sıfat Of a test result: not positive, not detected.

   “negative detection of.”

5. sıfat Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
6. sıfat Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
7. sıfat 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.”

8. sıfat Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
9. sıfat Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.

   “The nitro group is negative.”

10. sıfat Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.

    “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).”

11. sıfat Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
12. sıfat 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.”

13. sıfat COVID-19 negative.
14. sıfat No, not any, zero.

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

15. isim Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto

    ““Upon my word, I can’t eat a morsel,” answered the lady […] There is indeed in perfect beauty a power which none almost can withstand; for my landlady, though she was not pleased at the negative given to the supper, declared she had never seen so lovely a creature.”

16. isim An unfavorable point or characteristic.
17. isim 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.”

18. isim An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
19. isim A word that indicates negation.

    “"Why, she is one of those persons whom negatives seem invented to describe—I doubt whether she is worth one single bad quality."”

20. isim A negative quantity.
21. isim 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.
22. isim The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
23. isim A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.

    “You can’t prove a negative.”

24. fiil To refuse; to veto.

    “Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.”

25. fiil To contradict.

    “"A comely maid, that," said the other. "True, comely enough. But unless I make a great mistake—" And he negatived the remainder of the definition forthwith.”

26. fiil To disprove.

    “At one time an idea got abroad that the whole tale of her fortune had been a myth; […] but the boastings of various servants who declared they had seen her with “rolls on rolls” of banknotes […] negatived the truth of this statement.”

27. fiil To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.

    “"The War Office," said Miss Nightingale, "is a very slow office, an enormously expensive office, and one in which the Minister's intentions can be entirely negatived by all his sub-departments, and those of each of the sub-departments by every other."”

28. ünlem No; nay.

    “"Negative Marcel. No IOC. Patient has been drinking heavily, we can give him nothing for pain."”