negative
Webster Dictionary
not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism
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enlarge
(ɛnˈlɑrdʒ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to make (a photographic print) larger than the negative by projecting the negative's image through a lens onto sensitized paper.
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chlorous
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous
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nay
Webster Dictionary
a negative vote; one who votes in the negative
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negative
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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
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no
Webster Dictionary
a negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for the ayes and noes; the noes have it
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negate
(ɪˈgeɪt, ˈnɛg eɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to be negative; bring or cause negative results:
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electro-positive
Webster Dictionary
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
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nor
Webster Dictionary
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
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affirmative
Webster Dictionary
that which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative
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not
(ɒt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
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acid
Webster Dictionary
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
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un-
Webster Dictionary
an inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-); as in undone (from undo), meaning unfastened, ruined; and undone (from 2d un- and done) meaning not done, not finished. Un- is sometimes used with an intensive force merely; as in unloose
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negatived
Webster Dictionary
of Negative
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negativing
Webster Dictionary
of Negative
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notself
Webster Dictionary
the negative of self
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nayward
Webster Dictionary
the negative side
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but
Webster Dictionary
otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that
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negativity
Webster Dictionary
the quality or state of being negative
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negatively
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in a negative manner; with or by denial
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hydrogode
Webster Dictionary
the negative pole or cathode
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recusative
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refusing; denying; negative
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abnegative
Webster Dictionary
denying; renouncing; negative
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retouch
Webster Dictionary
to correct or change, as a negative, by handwork
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privative
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consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative
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noncontent
Webster Dictionary
one who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con
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any
(ˈɛn i)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(following a negative) at all:
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neg.
(ɛg)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
negative.
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negatory
Webster Dictionary
expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative
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characteristic
Webster Dictionary
the integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm
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