LekhoriLekhoriNot positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
Of a number: less than zero.
Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
negative detection of.
Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
“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.
To refuse; to veto.
Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.
No; nay.
"Negative Marcel. No IOC. Patient has been drinking heavily, we can give him nothing for pain."
From Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
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An unfavorable point or characteristic.
A right of veto.
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.
To contradict.
"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.
To disprove.
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.