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negative

[neg-uh-tiv] / ˈnɛg ə tɪv /


NOUN
contradiction
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One of the last analysts with a negative rating on Intel’s stock has just changed his tune.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

So far, the girl has not shown any negative reactions, her grandmother added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

“This is more negative for Brent than for WTI,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

As a result of the negative coverage, Ali said he was "harassed for days and weeks" and his family "lived in fear".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Other times, the test comes back negative, only to return positive the following month.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio recordings, 8-millimeter film footage, books, publications and other records and ephemera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

What are the benefits and negatives of each?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

"They're trying to make the case that the positives will far outweigh some of those negatives that the public backlash is pointing out," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

As to whether the positives of sports gambling outweigh the negatives, his conclusion that it depends on whom you ask is unsatisfying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Number one was okay since it was negatives and positives and those aren’t too bad.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

Referring to Erskine May, Parliament's ancient and respected rule book, he said MPs should never be asked to vote again on the same proposition if they had already "negatived" it during the current Parliamentary session.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2019

With gentle but resolute firmness, His Majesty negatived this proposal, hailed a passing motorist who, overwhelmed, obeyed with alacrity a royal command that he convey Miss Betts to her residence in Uxbridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the pianoforte, and after a polite request that Elizabeth would lead the way, which the other as politely and more earnestly negatived, she seated herself.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

The assertion, that they “earnestly seek” it, is completely negatived by the omission.

From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by A. D. Steight

He was supported by Mr. Roebuck, but the motion was negatived, 190 to 89.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

He said he could not tolerate the ordinary gravestone, which always looked, to him, as if the wind might blow it over, thus negativing the idea of solidity.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

But in negativing all means of arriving at truth except the letter of scripture interpreted by the inner light, he stood upon the same platform as the followers of George Fox.

From Milton by Mark Pattison

These were almost uniformly opposed by the "men of the greatest weight in the community;" your weighty men, though slow to devise, being always great at "negativing."

From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving

The importance of the discovery is in negativing the theory that the crime was committed for the sake of robbery.

From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

How long am I to have the office of merely negativing assertions which are but supported by former assertions, in which John is ever helping Tom, and the elephant stands upon the tortoise?

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman


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