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{{also|négative}}
==English==

===Alternative forms===
* {{l|en|-ve|−ve}} {{q|abbreviation}}

===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁eǵ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|negative}}, {{m|enm|negatif}}, from {{der|en|fro|negatif}}, from {{der|en|la|negātīvus|t=that denies, negative}}, from {{m|la|negāre|t=to deny}}; see {{m|la|negate}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈnɛɡətɪv/|a=RP}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-negative.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈnɛɡətɪv/|/-ɾɪv/|a=GA,CA}}
** {{audio|en|en-us-negative.ogg|a=California}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈneɡətɪv/|/-ɾɪv/|a=AU}}
* {{hyph|en|neg|a|tive}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Not [[positive]] nor [[neutral]].
#: {{syn|en|bad|deleterious|Thesaurus:bad}}
#: {{ant|en|good|Thesaurus:good}}
#* {{RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara|page=191|volume=III|text="Why, she is one of those persons whom '''negatives''' seem invented to describe—I doubt whether she is worth one single bad quality."}}
# {{lb|en|physics}} Of electrical charge of an [[electron]] and related particles {{defdate|from the 18th c.}}
# {{lb|en|mathematics}} Of a number: less than zero.
#: {{ant|en|positive|nonnegative<!--antonymous linguistically: not negative (opposite)-->}}
#: {{hyper|en|nonzero|nonnegative<!--hypernymous mathematically: two hyponyms: zero and positive-->}}
## {{lb|en|weather}} Less than zero degrees [[Celsius]] or [[Fahrenheit]].
##: {{ux|en|I was out in '''negative''' weather today.}}
# {{lb|en|linguistics|logic}} [[deny|Denying]] a [[proposition]]; [[negating]] a [[concept]].
#: {{syn|en|negatory}}
#: {{ant|en|affirmative|;|intensifying|intensive|intensitive}}
# [[damaging#Adjective|Damaging]]; [[undesirable]]; [[unfavourable]].
#: {{ux|en|The high exchange rate will have a '''negative''' effect on our profits.}}
#: {{ux|en|Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly '''negative'''.}}
# {{label|en|often used [[pejoratively]]}} [[pessimistic|Pessimistic]]; not tending to see the [[bright]] side of things.
#: {{ux|en|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 [[colour#Noun|colours]] of the original, and the [[relation]]s of [[left]] and [[right]], are [[reverse]]d.
# {{lb|en|chemistry}} [[metalloidal|Metalloidal]], [[nonmetallic]]; contrasted with [[positive]] or [[basic]].
#: {{ux|en|The nitro group is '''negative'''.}}
# {{lb|en|[[New Age]] [[jargon]]|pejorative}} ''Often preceded by'' '''{{l|en|emotion}}''', '''{{l|en|energy}}''', '''{{l|en|feeling}}''', or '''{{l|en|thought}}''': to be [[avoid]]ed, [[bad]], [[difficult]], [[disagreeable]], [[painful]], potentially [[damaging#Adjective|damaging]], [[unpleasant]], [[unwanted]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Christopher Johns|title=Becoming a Reflective Practitioner|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uvNiZvYpsu4C&pg=PA15&dq=positive+energy&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5FH9T5fGH-KdmQWWoZ2YBQ&ved=0CGkQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=positive%20energy&f=false|page=15|publisher=John Wiley & Sons
|passage='''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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hf5qEW9n_fsC&pg=PT109&dq=positive+feelings&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MkX-T8PQCo6KmQXjr4GhBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=unwanted%20feelings&f=false]
#*: 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.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Anne Jones|title=Healing Negative Energies|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mHSjDZTPLmQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=salt%20bath&f=false|page=118|publisher=Hachette
|passage=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.}}
# [[characterize|Characterized]] by the presence of [[feature#Noun|features]] which do not [[support#Verb|support]] a [[hypothesis]].
# {{lb|en|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.
# {{lb|en|slang}} [[COVID-19]] negative.
# {{lb|en|hyperbolic}} [[no|No]], [[not]] [[any]], [[zero]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=14 Aug 82|volume=10|number=5|journal=Gay Community News|page=15|author=Renee Holmes|title=Personal advertisement|text=The '''negative''' contact we get inside here [prison] is enough to make you even more bitter and further alienated from society and ourselves.}}
#* {{quote-newsgroup|1=en|date=7 Sept 02|author=Jef|title=MST3K DVD Collection One|newsgroup=rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc|url=https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc/c/ZJyFMv_K6rQ/m/RajKxy4EijQJ|text=The hell? I wish I could follow you on that, but it makes '''negative''' sense.}}

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|damaging}} {{l|en|undesirable}}

====Antonyms====
* {{l|en|positive}}

====Derived terms====
{{der3|en
| A negative|carbon negative|gram-negative|Gram-negative|HIV-negative|negative bath|negative binomial distribution|negative capability|negative clause|negative cost|negative crystal|negative cutter|negative deficit|negative edge|negative edge-triggered|negative equity|negative eugenics|negative feedback|negative gearing|negative growth|negative ice|negative income tax|negative indexing|negative interest|negative logic|negative lookahead|negative lookaround|negative lookbehind|negative Nelly|negative option|negative pickup|negative pledge|negative pregnant|negative pressure|negative priming|negative proof|negative raising|negative reinforcement|negative resolution|negative sense|negative side waterproofing|negative space|negative utilitarianism|negative-edge-triggered|negative-sum|non-negative|orphaned negative|Rh negative|RhD negative|Rhesus negative|sex-negative|task-negative|triple negative breast cancer|go negative|negative hallucination|negative Ned|triple-negative breast cancer
|negative energy| negative utilitarian
|negative majority|negative theology
|negative Nancy
|negativeness
|negative number
|negative polarity item
|negative repetition
|negative training
|negative transfer
|negative verb
|negative zero
|negativity
|negativate}}

====Related terms====
{{rel3|en
|negate
|negation
|negativism
|negatory}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|not positive or neutral}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|سَلْبِيّ}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|ժխտական}}, {{t+|hy|բացասական}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|mənfi}}, {{t|az|neqativ}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|ezkor}}
* Belarusian: {{t+|be|адмо́ўны}}, {{t|be|нэгаты́ўны}}
* Bhojpuri: {{t|bho|नकारात्मक}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отрица́телен}}, {{t+|bg|негати́вен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|negatiu|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|否定|alt=否定的|tr=fǒudìng de}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|negativní}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|negatief}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|negativa}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|negatiivinen}}, {{t+|fi|kielteinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|négatif}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|negativo|m}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|უარყოფითი}}, {{t|ka|ნეგატიური}}
* German: {{t+|de|negativ}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἀρνητικός}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|שלילי|m|tr=shlilí}}, {{t|he|שלילית|f|tr=shlilít}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|नकारात्मक}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|negatív}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|neikvæður}}, {{t|is|negatífur}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|diúltach}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|negativo}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|否定|alt=否定の|tr=ひていの, hitei no}}, {{t+|ja|否定的|tr=ひていてきな, hiteiteki na|alt=否定的な}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|негативті}}, {{t|kk|негативтік}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|소극적인}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|negativ}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|ujemny}}, {{t+|pl|negatywny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|negativo}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|отрица́тельный}}, {{t+|ru|негати́вный}}
* Slovak: {{t+|sk|negatívny}}, {{t|sk|záporný}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|negativo}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|negativ}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|olumsuz}}, {{t+|tr|negatif}}, {{t+|tr|menfi}}, {{t+|tr|eksi}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|від'є́мний}}, {{t+|uk|негати́вний}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|tiêu cực}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|negyddol}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of electrical charge}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|سَلْبِيّ}}, {{t|ar|سَالِب}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|բացասական}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|mənfi}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отрицателен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|negatiu|m}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|záporný|m}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|negativ}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|negatief}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|negatiivinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|négatif}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|negativo|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|negativ}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|שלילי|m|tr=shlilí}}, {{t|he|שלילית|f|tr=shlilít}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|negatív}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|neikvæður}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|diúltach}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|negativo}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|tōraro}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|negativ}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|ujemny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|negativo}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|отрица́тельный}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|záporný}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|negativo}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|negativ}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|ఋణాత్మక|tr=|sc=Telu}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|âm}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|mathematics: less than zero}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|բացասական}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|mənfi}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|negatibo}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отрицателен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|negatiu|m}}, {{t|ca|estrictament negatiu|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|負|tr=fù}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|záporný}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|negativ}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|negatief}}, {{t+|nl|min}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|negatiivinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|strictement négatif}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αρνητικός}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|負|tr=fu}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|음}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|ujemny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|negativo}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|отрица́тельный}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|záporný}}, {{t+|sk|negatívny}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|negativ}}
* Tagalog: {{t|tl|baling}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ลบ}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|âm}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|linguistics: denying a proposition}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|مَنْفِيّ}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|ժխտական}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|inkar}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|negatie|f}}, {{t+|nl|ontkenning|f}}, {{t|nl|ontkennende vorm|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kielteinen}}, {{t+|fi|kieltävä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|négatif|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αρνητικός}}
*: Ancient Greek: {{t|grc|ἀρνητικός}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|negatywny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|negativo}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|negación|f}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|phủ định}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|inherently damaging}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|سَلْبِيّ}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|mənfi}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|消極|tr=xiāojí}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vahingollinen}}, {{t+|fi|negatiivinen}}
* German: {{t+|de|schlecht}}, {{t+|de|negativ}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|келеңсіз}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|negativo}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|отрица́тельный}}, {{t+|ru|негати́вный}}
* Slovak: {{t+|sk|negatívny}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|pessimistic}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|سَلْبِيّ}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|negativ}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kielteinen}}, {{t+|fi|negatiivinen}}, {{t+|fi|pessimistinen}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|negatywny}}
* Slovak: {{t+|sk|negatívny}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours and relations are reversed}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|سَالِب}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|neqativ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|негативен}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|negatiivinen}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|negatywowy}}
* Slovak: {{t+|sk|negatívny}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|chemistry: metalloidal; nonmetallic}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|سَالِب}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|negatiivinen}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|New Age jargon|id=unwanted, disagreeable}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|negatiivinen}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# [[refusal|Refusal]] or [[withholding#Noun|withholding]] of [[assent#Noun|assents]]; [[prohibition]], [[veto]] {{defdate|from 15th c.}}
#* {{RQ:Fielding Tom Jones|text=“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.}}
#* {{RQ:Carlyle Past and Present|2|ch. XV, Practical — Devotional||Geoffrey Riddell [[:w:Bishop of Ely|Bishop of Ely]] […] made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at [[:w:Glemsford|Glemsford]]. [[:w:Samson of Tottington|The Abbot]], a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a '''negative'''.}}
# An unfavorable point or characteristic.
# {{lb|en|law}} A [[right#Noun|right]] of veto.
#* '''1787''', [[w:Luther Martin|Luther Martin]], cited in ''The Constitutional Convention Of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of America's Founding'' (2005), Volume 1, [http://books.google.ru/books?id=oyFpDS8p33sC&lpg=PA391&dq=they%20have%20a%20negative%20on%20the%20laws&pg=PA391#v=onepage&q&f=false 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, [[s:The Federalist (Dawson)/68|''The Federalist'', no. 68]]
#*: The qualified '''negative''' of the President differs widely from this absolute '''negative''' of the British sovereign; {{...}}
#* '''1983''', [[s:INS v. Chadha|INS v. Chadha]], [[s:INS v. Chadha/Opinion of the Court|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.
# {{lb|en|photography}} An [[image#Noun|image]] in which [[dark#Adjective|dark]] [[area]]s represent [[light#Adjective|light]] ones, and the [[converse]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
#: {{ant|en|positive#Noun}}
#: {{cot|en|diapositive#Noun}}
# {{lb|en|grammar}} A [[word#Noun|word]] that indicates [[negation]].
# {{lb|en|mathematics}} A negative [[quantity]].
# {{lb|en|weightlifting}} A [[repetition]] [[perform]]ed with a [[weight]] in which the [[muscle]] begins at [[maximum]] [[contraction]] and is [[slowly]] [[extend]]ed; a [[movement]] performed using only the [[eccentric]] [[phase#Noun|phase]] of [[muscle#Noun|muscle]] movement.
# The negative [[plate#Noun|plate]] of a [[voltaic]] or [[electrolytic]] [[cell]].
# {{lb|en|logic}} A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
#: {{ux|en|You can’t prove a '''negative.'''}}

====Derived terms====
{{der3|en
|double negative
|false negative
|internegative}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|refusal or withholding of assent; veto, prohibition}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|забрана|f}}, {{t+|bg|вето|n}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vastustus}}, {{t+|fi|veto}}, {{t+|fi|kielto}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|legal: right of veto}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|вето|n}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|veto-oikeus}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|photography}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|صُورَة سَالِبَة|f|tr=ṣūra sāliba}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|негатив|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|底片|tr=dǐpiàn}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|negativ|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|negatiivi}}, {{t+|fi|nega}} {{qualifier|colloquial}}
* French: {{t+|fr|négatif|m}}, {{t|fr|film négatif|m}}
* German: {{t|de|Negativfilm|m}}, {{t+|de|Negativ|n}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αρνητικό|n}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|תשליל|m|tr=tashlíl}}, {{t|he|נגטיב|m|tr=negatív}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|negatív}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|negatif}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|claonchló|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|negativo|m}}, {{t+|it|negativa|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|陰画|tr=いんが, inga}}, {{t|ja|ネガフィルム|tr=negafirumu}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|negatyw|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|negativa|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|негати́в|m}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|negatív}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|negativo|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|negativ|n}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|negatif}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|grammar: word that indicates negation}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отрицание|n}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kieltosana}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|diúltach|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|negativa|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|うちけし|tr=uchikeshi}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|tūwhakakāhore}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zaprzeczenie|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|отрица́ние|n}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|zápor}}, {{t|sk|negácia}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|olumsuz}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|mathematics: negative quantity}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|负|tr=fù}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[negatiivinen]] [[suure]]}}, {{t|fi|[[negatiivinen]] [[luku]]}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|שלילי|m|tr=shlilí}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|negativo|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|negativo|m}}
* Russian: {{t|ru|отрица́тельная величина́|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|negativo|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|weightlifting: rep in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[refuse#Verb|refuse]]; to [[veto#Verb|veto]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1887|author=w:L. T. Meade|title=The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15149/15149-h/15149-h.htm|chapter=XVIII
|passage=Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady '''negatived''' with horror.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1924|author=w:Herman Melville|title=w:Billy Budd|location=London|publisher=Constable & Co.|chapter=12|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html
|passage=And being of warm blood he had not the phlegm tacitly to '''negative''' any proposition by unresponsive inaction.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[contradict]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1892|author=w:Thomas Hardy|title=w:Tess of the d'Urbervilles|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/110/110-h/110-h.htm|chapter=XXXIII
|passage="A comely maid, that," said the other.<br>"True, comely enough. But unless I make a great mistake—" And he '''negatived''' the remainder of the definition forthwith.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[disprove]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1882|author=[[w:Charlotte Riddell|J. H. Riddell]]|chapter=Old Mrs Jones|title=The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs. J. H. Riddell|publisher=Dover|year_published=1977|page=192|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=RFsqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+boastings+of+various+servants+who+declared%22&dq=%22the+boastings+of+various+servants+who+declared%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip9tP38KPNAhVQ7WMKHTavDbwQ6AEIIDAA
|passage=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.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To make [[ineffective]]; to [[neutralize]], to [[negate]].
#* {{RQ:Strachey Eminent Victorians|chapter=III|page=162|passage="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."}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1945|month=March and April|author=T. F. Cameron|title=New Works Procedure|journal=Railway Magazine|page=71|text=In the nature of things, much railway capital expenditure on stations and depots was in the immediate vicinity, if not in the heart, of towns, and extensions or remodellings, apart from being extremely costly, may be entirely '''negatived''' by the impossibility of securing the necessary land.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1959|translator=w:G. A. Williamson|author=w:Flavius Josephus|title=w:The Jewish War|chapter=5|page=98|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1970
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1963|month=January|author=G. Freeman Allen|title=Why B.R. are dropping high-power diesel-hydraulics|journal=Modern Railways|page=25|text=While the diesel-hydraulic system has been failing to live up to its early promise, development in other directions has '''negatived''' some of the advantages which prompted its trial.}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|negativation}}

===Interjection===
{{en-interj}}

# {{lb|en|law|signalling}} [[no|No]]; [[nay]].
#* {{quote-book|1=en|year=1980|author=Richard Louis Newmann|title=Siege of Orbitor|page=xxiv. 93|passage="'''Negative''' Marcel. No IOC. Patient has been drinking heavily, we can give him nothing for pain."}}

====Antonyms====
* [[affirmative]]

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aeegintv|agentive|gate vein|veganite}}

{{topics|en|Energy}}

==Albanian==

===Adjective===
{{head|sq|adjective form}}

# {{inflection of|sq|negativ||f|s|;|f|p}}

==Danish==

===Adjective===
{{head|da|adjective form}}

# {{inflection of|da|negativ||def|attributive|positive//superlative|;|p}}

==German==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|de|De-negative.ogg}}

===Adjective===
{{head|de|adjective form}}

# {{de-adj form of|negativ}}

==Italian==

===Pronunciation===
{{it-pr|negatìve}}

===Adjective===
{{head|it|adjective form|g=f-p}}

# {{adj form of|it|negativo||f|p}}

===Noun===
{{head|it|noun form|g=f}}

# {{plural of|it|negativa}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|it|a=aeegintv|agentive|negatevi|vengiate}}

==Latin==

===Pronunciation===
* {{la-IPA|negātīve}}

===Adjective===
{{head|la|adjective form|head=negātīve}}

# {{inflection of|la|negātīvus||voc|m|s}}

==Norwegian Bokmål==

===Adjective===
{{head|nb|adjective form}}

# {{inflection of|nb|negativ||def|s|;|p}}

==Norwegian Nynorsk==

===Adjective===
{{head|nn|adjective form}}

# {{inflection of|nn|negativ||def|s|;|p}}

==Portuguese==

===Verb===
{{head|pt|verb form}}

# {{pt-verb form of|negativar}}

==Swedish==

===Adjective===
{{head|sv|adjective form}}

# {{adj form of|sv|negativ||def|natm|s}}