negative

1. negative (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.

Example: The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.

2. negative (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Of a number: less than zero.

3. negative (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Of a number: less than zero.: Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Example: I was out in negative weather today.

4. negative (noun) — sense 4

Definition: Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto

Example: “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.

5. negative (noun) — sense 5

Definition: An unfavorable point or characteristic.

6. negative (noun) — sense 6

Definition: A right of veto.

Example: 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.

7. negative (verb) — sense 7

Definition: To refuse; to veto.

Example: Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.

8. negative (verb) — sense 8

Definition: To contradict.

Example: "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.

9. negative (verb) — sense 9

Definition: To disprove.

Example: 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.

10. negative (intj) — sense 10

Definition: No; nay.

Example: "Negative Marcel. No IOC. Patient has been drinking heavily, we can give him nothing for pain."