negative

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. An unfavorable point or characteristic.
  3. 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.
  4. An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
  5. 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."
  6. A negative quantity.
  7. 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.
  8. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
  9. A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
    — You can’t prove a negative.
动词 v.
  1. To refuse; to veto. transitive
    — Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.
  2. To contradict. transitive
    — "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.
  3. To disprove. transitive
    — 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.
  4. To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate. transitive
    — "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."
形容词 adj.
  1. Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
    — The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
  2. Of a number: less than zero.
  3. Of a number: less than zero.; Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
    — I was out in negative weather today.
  4. Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
    — negative detection of.
  5. Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
  6. Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
  7. Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. often
    — I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.
  8. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
  9. Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
    — The nitro group is negative.
  10. Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted. New-Age,derogatory,jargon
    — 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. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
  12. HIV negative. slang
    — 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. COVID-19 negative. slang
  14. No, not any, zero. excessive
    — The negative contact we get inside here [prison] is enough to make you even more bitter and further alienated from society and ourselves.
感叹词 intj.
  1. No; nay.
    — "Negative Marcel. No IOC. Patient has been drinking heavily, we can give him nothing for pain."

词形变化

more negative comparative most negative superlative -ve alternative,abbreviation −ve alternative,abbreviation negatives plural -ve alternative,abbreviation −ve alternative,abbreviation negatives present,singular,third-person negativing participle,present negatived participle,past negatived past -ve alternative,abbreviation −ve alternative,abbreviation -ve alternative,abbreviation −ve alternative,abbreviation

词汇关系

反义词
positive affirmative
衍生词
A negative binegative body negative carbon negative electronegative geonegative go negative gram-negative HIV-negative homonegative hypernegative immunonegative negamile negativate negative atheist negative bath negative binomial distribution negative capability negative clause negative cost negative crystal negative cutter negative deficit negative edge negative edge-triggered negative-edge-triggered negative energy negative entry negative equity negative eugenics negative feedback negative gearing negative growth negative hallucination negative harmony negative ice negative income tax negative indexing negative interest negative logic negative lookahead negative lookaround negative lookbehind negatively negative majority negative Nancy negative Ned negative Nelly negativeness negative number negative option negative-painted negative painting negative pickup negative pion negative pledge negative polarity item negative pole negative pregnant negative pressure negative priming negative proof negative raising negative reinforcement negative repetition negative resolution negative sense negative side waterproofing negative space negative split negative-sum negative theology negative training negative transfer negative utilitarian negative utilitarianism negative verb negative zero negativist negativistic negativity negativization negativize negatome negatrip negentropy non-negative orphaned negative photonegative polynegative pseudonegative RhD negative Rhesus negative Rh negative seronegative sex-negative socionegative task-negative triple-negative triple-negative breast cancer triple negative breast cancer uninegative vironegative connegative double negative false negative internegative multinegative negatival neg-raising stereonegative negativation negativer
相关词
negate negation negativism negatory

词源

词源 1
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
词源 2
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
词源 3
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
词源 4
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
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