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- Negative - a. - Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
- Negative - a. - Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
- Negative - a. - Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
- Negative - a. - Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
- Negative - a. - Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.
- Negative - n. - A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
- Negative - n. - A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.
- Negative - n. - The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.
- Negative - n. - That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
- Negative - n. - A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.
- Negative - n. - The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- Negative - v. t. - To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.
- Negative - v. t. - To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
- Negative - v. t. - To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
- Negatived - imp. & p. p. - of Negative
- Negatively - adv. - In a negative manner; with or by denial.
- Negatively - adv. - In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.
- Negativeness - n. - Alt. of Negativity
- Nay - adv. - No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
- Acid - n. - One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.
- Voltagraphy - n. - In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode.
- Negative - a. - Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
- Electro-positive - a. - Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative.
- Negative - n. - The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- Nayward - n. - The negative side.
- Whit - n. - The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.
- De- - - A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.
- Hydrogode - n. - The negative pole or cathode.
- Negative - n. - A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
- Diamide - n. - Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide.
- Lest - a. - That (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension.
- Notself - n. - The negative of self.
- Nor - conj. - A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor.
- Negative - a. - Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
- For- - - A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
- Haloid - a. - Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.
- Subtractive - a. - Having the negative sign, or sign minus.
- Un- - adv. - Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like.
- Fog - v. i. - To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.
- Doubt - v. i. - To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
- Blackball - n. - A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
- Issue - n. - A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.
- Nay - n. - a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
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- G12 ἄβυσσος - 12 ἄβυσσος - ἌΒΥΣΣΟΣ - - ábyssos - ab'-us-sos - from Α (as a negative particle) and a variation of βυθός; depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss":--deep, (bottomless) pit. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G890 ἄχρηστος - 890 ἄχρηστος - ἌΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ - - áchrēstos - akh'-race-tos - from Α (as a negative particle) and χρηστός; inefficient, i.e. (by implication) detrimental:--unprofitable. - Adjective - greek
- G82 ἄδηλος - 82 ἄδηλος - ἌΔΗΛΟΣ - - ádēlos - ad'-ay-los - from Α (as a negative particle) and δῆλος; hidden, figuratively, indistinct:--appear not, uncertain. - Adjective - greek
- G94 ἄδικος - 94 ἄδικος - ἌΔΙΚΟΣ - - ádikos - ad'-ee-kos - from Α (as a negative particle) and δίκη; unjust; by extension wicked; by implication, treacherous; specially, heathen:--unjust, unrighteous. - Adjective - greek
- G97 ἄδολος - 97 ἄδολος - ἌΔΟΛΟΣ - - ádolos - ad'-ol-os - from Α (as a negative particle); and δόλος; undeceitful, i.e. (figuratively) unadulterated:--sincere. - Adjective - greek
- G22 ἄγαμος - 22 ἄγαμος - ἌΓΑΜΟΣ - - ágamos - ag'-am-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and γάμος; unmarried:--unmarried. - Adjective - greek
- G46 ἄγναφος - 46 ἄγναφος - ἌΓΝΑΦΟΣ - - ágnaphos - ag'-naf-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and the same as γναφεύς; properly, unfulled, i.e. (by implication) new (cloth):--new. - Adjective - greek
- G57 ἄγνωστος - 57 ἄγνωστος - ἌΓΝΩΣΤΟΣ - - ágnōstos - ag'-noce-tos' - from Α (as negative particle) and γνωστός; unknown:--unknown. - Adjective - greek
- G172 ἄκακος - 172 ἄκακος - ἌΚΑΚΟΣ - - ákakos - ak'-ak-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and κακός; not bad, i.e. (objectively) innocent or (subjectively) unsuspecting:--harmless, simple. - Adjective - greek
- G175 ἄκαρπος - 175 ἄκαρπος - ἌΚΑΡΠΟΣ - - ákarpos - ak'-ar-pos - from Α (as a negative particle) and καρπός; barren (literally or figuratively):--without fruit, unfruitful. - Adjective - greek
- G210 ἄκων - 210 ἄκων - ἌΚΩΝ - - ákōn - ak'-ohn - from Α (as a negative particle) and ἑκών; unwilling:--against the will. - Adjective - greek
- G194 ἄκρατος - 194 ἄκρατος - ἌΚΡΑΤΟΣ - - ákratos - ak'-rat-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of κεράννυμι; undiluted:--without mixture. - Adjective - greek
- G216 ἄλαλος - 216 ἄλαλος - ἌΛΑΛΟΣ - - álalos - al'-al-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and λαλέω; mute:--dumb. - Adjective - greek
- G249 ἄλογος - 249 ἄλογος - ἌΛΟΓΟΣ - - álogos - al'-og-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and λόγος; irrational:--brute, unreasonable. - Adjective - greek
- G269 ἄμαχος - 269 ἄμαχος - ἌΜΑΧΟΣ - - ámachos - am'-akh-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and μάχη; peaceable:--not a brawler. - Adjective - greek
- G273 ἄμεμπτος - 273 ἄμεμπτος - ἌΜΕΜΠΤΟΣ - - ámemptos - am'-emp-tos - from Α (as a negative particle) and a derivative of μέμφομαι; irreproachable:--blameless, faultless, unblamable. - Adjective - greek
- G280 ἄμετρος - 280 ἄμετρος - ἌΜΕΤΡΟΣ - - ámetros - am'-et-ros - from Α (as a negative particle) and μέτρον; immoderate:--(thing) without measure. - Adjective - greek
- G299 ἄμωμος - 299 ἄμωμος - ἌΜΩΜΟΣ - - ámōmos - am'-o-mos - from Α (as a negative particle) and μῶμος; unblemished (literally or figuratively):--without blame (blemish, fault, spot), faultless, unblamable. - Adjective - greek
- G358 ἄναλος - 358 ἄναλος - ἌΝΑΛΟΣ - - ánalos - an'-al-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and ἅλς; saltless, i.e. insipid:--X lose saltness. - Adjective - greek
- G449 ἄνιπτος - 449 ἄνιπτος - ἌΝΙΠΤΟΣ - - ániptos - an'-ip-tos - from Α (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of νίπτω; without ablution:--unwashen. - Adjective - greek
- G454 ἄνοια - 454 ἄνοια - ἌΝΟΙΑ - - ánoia - an'-oy-ah - from a compound of Α (as a negative particle) and νοῦς; stupidity; by implication, rage:--folly, madness. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G459 ἄνομος - 459 ἄνομος - ἌΝΟΜΟΣ - - ánomos - an'-om-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and νόμος; lawless, i.e. (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication, a Gentile), or (positively) wicked:--without law, lawless, transgressor, unlawful, wicked. - Adjective - greek
- G504 ἄνυδρος - 504 ἄνυδρος - ἌΝΥΔΡΟΣ - - ánydros - an'-oo-dros - from Α (as a negative particle) and ὕδωρ; waterless, i.e. dry:--dry, without water. - Adjective - greek
- G552 ἄπειρος - 552 ἄπειρος - ἌΠΕΙΡΟΣ - - ápeiros - ap'-i-ros - from Α (as a negative particle) and πεῖρα; inexperienced, i.e. ignorant:--unskilful. - Adjective - greek
- G855 ἄφαντος - 855 ἄφαντος - ἌΦΑΝΤΟΣ - - áphantos - af'-an-tos - from Α (as a negative particle) and a derivative of φαίνω; non-manifested, i.e. invisible:--vanished out of sight. - Adjective - greek