negative

Definitions

• Not positive nor neutral.
• (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
• (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero
• (linguistics) Denying a proposition.
• Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
• Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
• Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
• (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
• (New Age jargon) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
• Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
• (slang) HIV negative