different between negative vs negate
negative
English
Etymology
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negativus (“that denies, negative”), from negare (“to deny”); see negate.
Alternative forms
- ?ve (abbreviation)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n???t?v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n???t?v/, /-??v/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?n?(e)?????v/
- Hyphenation: neg?a?tive
Adjective
negative (comparative more negative, superlative most negative)
- Not positive nor neutral.
- (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles [from the 18th c.]
- (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero
- Antonym: nonnegative
- (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition.
- Antonym: affirmative
- Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
- 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.
- 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, page 15
- 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).
- 2011, Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want, Body, Mind & Spirit, [1]
- The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages... Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.
- 2011, Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies, Hachette, page 118
- If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself... Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.
- 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, page 15
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- (slang) HIV negative
- quoted in 2013, William I. Johnston, HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (page 145)
- 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.
- quoted in 2013, William I. Johnston, HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (page 145)
Synonyms
- (damaging): undesirable
Antonyms
- positive
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
negative (plural negatives)
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto [from 15th c.]
- “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.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
- Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely […] made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford. The Abbot, a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a negative.
- (law) A right of veto.
- 1787, Luther Martin, cited in The Constitutional Convention Of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of America's Founding (2005), Volume 1, page 391
- 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.
- 1788, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist no. 68
- The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; […]
- 1983, INS v. Chadha, Opinion of the Court
- In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.
- 1787, Luther Martin, cited in The Constitutional Convention Of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of America's Founding (2005), Volume 1, page 391
- (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 rep performed with 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
negative (third-person singular simple present negatives, present participle negativing, simple past and past participle negatived)
- (transitive) To refuse; to veto.
- 1887, L. T. Meade, The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls, Chapter XVIII, [2]
- Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12, [3]
- And being of warm blood he had not the phlegm tacitly to negative any proposition by unresponsive inaction.
- 1887, L. T. Meade, The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls, Chapter XVIII, [2]
- (transitive) To contradict.
- 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Chapter XXXIII, [4]
- "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.
- 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Chapter XXXIII, [4]
- (transitive) To disprove.
- 1882, J. H. Riddell, "Old Mrs Jones" in The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Dover, 1977, page 192, [5]
- 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.
- 1882, J. H. Riddell, "Old Mrs Jones" in The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Dover, 1977, page 192, [5]
- (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize.
- 1959, Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, translated by G. A. Williamson, Penguin, 1970, Chapter 5, page 98,
- Yet he made his largesse daily more lavish, as he saw the king negativing his efforts by taking care of the orphans and showing his remorse for the murder of his sons by his tenderness towards their little ones.
- 1959, Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, translated by G. A. Williamson, Penguin, 1970, Chapter 5, page 98,
Derived terms
- negativation
Interjection
negative
- (law, signalling) An elaborate synonym for no.
Anagrams
- agentive, gate vein, veganite
Danish
Adjective
negative
- inflection of negativ:
- definite attributive positive degree/superlative degree
- plural
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
negative
- inflection of negativ:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ive
Adjective
negative f pl
- feminine plural of negativo
Noun
negative f
- plural of negativa
Anagrams
- agentive, negatevi
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ne.?a??ti?.u?e/, [n??ä??t?i?u??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ne.?a?ti.ve/, [n????t?i?v?]
Adjective
neg?t?ve
- vocative masculine singular of neg?t?vus
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
negative
- inflection of negativ:
- definite singular
- plural
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
negative
- inflection of negativ:
- definite singular
- plural
Swedish
Adjective
negative
- absolute definite natural masculine form of negativ.
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negate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin neg?tus, past participle of neg?re (“to deny, refuse, decline”), reduced from *nec-aiare (or a similar form), from nec (“not, nor”) + aiere (“to say”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n???e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Verb
negate (third-person singular simple present negates, present participle negating, simple past and past participle negated)
- To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
- To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
- Progress on the study has been negated by the lack of funds.
- Persecution can be negated through exposure.
- To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
- a pessimism that always negates
- (computing) To perform the NOT operation on.
Related terms
- negative
- negativeness
- negativism
- negativity
- negation
Translations
Further reading
- negate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- negate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- geneat
Italian
Adjective
negate f pl
- feminine plural of negato
Verb
negate
- second-person plural present of negare
- second-person plural imperative of negare
- feminine plural past participle of negare
Anagrams
- agente
Latin
Participle
neg?te
- vocative masculine singular of neg?tus
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