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📖 Определения и значения для слова negative

📒 bad or harmful

  • The crisis had a negative effect on trade.
  • Government cuts will have a negative impact on public services.
  • The whole experience was definitely more positive than negative.

📒 containing a word such as ‘no’, ‘not’, ‘never’, etc.

  • a negative form/sentence

📒 expressing the answer ‘no’

  • His response was negative.
  • They received a negative reply.

📒 considering only the bad side of something/somebody; having no enthusiasm or hope

  • Scientists have a fairly negative attitude to the theory.
  • The developers' proposal received negative feedback from neighbours.
  • ‘He probably won't show up.’ ‘Don't be so negative.’

📒 not showing any evidence of a particular substance or medical condition

  • Her pregnancy test was negative.
  • Negative results are not a guarantee of a safe water supply.
  • He tested negative for HIV infection.

📒 containing or producing the type of electricity that is carried by an electron

  • a negative charge/current
  • the negative terminal of a battery

📒 less than zero

  • a negative trade balance
  • The industry suffered negative growth (= a decline) throughout the decade.

📒 showing light and shade, or colours, in the opposite way to the original

  • In a negative image of the photograph, dark is light and right is left.
  • Look at a bright light and look away, and you see the negative image of it.
  • The artist creates an interplay of positive and negative space in acrylic.
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