negative
/ˈnɛɡ.ə.tɪv/ adjective A2- 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.
- Of a number: less than zero.
- Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit. · I was out in negative weather today.
- Of a test result: not positive, not detected. · negative detection of.
- Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
- 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.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
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The young man’s finger, glided over the words, but at each one Noirtier answered by a negative sign.
Though answered in the negative, he begged so earnestly to be permitted to visit those on the fifth floor, that, in despite of the oft-repeated assurance of the concierge that they were occupied, Dantès succeeded in inducing the man to go up to the tenants, and ask permission for a gentleman to be allowed to look at them.
To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behaviour at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.
I have made some inquiries myself in the last few days, but the results have, I fear, been negative.
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