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😒 Unfavorable or critical ➖ Less than zero 🧪 No disease found 🚫 A denial 🙅 A refusal 📷 Reversed image ❌ To reject officially
to negative

to negative

7.5
To vote against a proposal in a meeting
  • verb
  • /ˈnɛɡətɪv/
  • Formal
translation icon : rechazar
  • The committee voted to negative the changes suggested by the consultant due to concerns about budget impact.

Examples

  • It required not the affirmance and could not be negatived by the State governments.

    Blog text (2)

  • All you negative

    Blog text (20)

  • The sum which it was required Congress should appropriate to the purchase was forty thousand dollars; and considering how that assembly is constituted, how little most of its members know or care about pictures, or their intrinsic value, and how utterly unimbued they are with any conception of the moral worth of art to a young nation, I conceive it very creditable to the body that the motion was negatived by only two votes.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The board decided to negative the proposal for the new policy during the meeting.

  • During the vote, several members chose to negative the motion to increase funding.

Synonyms

to reject
vsto negative
839 1.9

Refuse to accept someone or something

is specific to refusing in formal or official decision contexts
to refuse
vsto negative
716 1.7

To say no to a request or offer

is a formal or official form of saying no rather than casual denial
to veto
vsto negative
156 4.0

To refuse to accept a decision, proposal, or law

describes formal refusal without implying single-person blocking power
to vote out
vsto negative
57 3.2

Reject a proposal by voting against it

is the act of refusing approval generally, not specifically removing someone
to vote down
vsto negative
18 4.2

Reject a proposal or plan because more people say no

is the general official refusal rather than specifically winning by ballot
to blackball
vsto negative
13 8.3

To vote against someone so they cannot join or stay in a group, often by a secret vote

is general formal opposition, not specifically secret exclusion from groups
to vote nay
vsto negative
  • Formal
2 7.0

To say 'nay' when voting to show you are against a proposal

is broader formal refusal, not only the spoken opposition in meetings
to turn thumbs down
vsto negative
1 7.0

To show that you do not agree with or support something

refers to formal or official refusal rather than informal visible dislike
to neg
vsto negative
  • Informal
9.9

To say no to an idea or plan without giving a reason

is used for formal refusals in official contexts rather than casual dismissal

Antonyms

to approve
∞ 1.6

To officially agree to something or think that it is good

to assent
  • Formal
4 6.6

To agree to a plan or idea, often formally

Compounds

negative attitude
10 3.5

A way of thinking that expects bad things to happen

negative feedback
  • Specialized
10 3.9

Part of a system's output that is sent back to reduce change and keep it stable

negative stereotype
  • Offensive
5 5.8

A simple, harmful idea about a group of people

negative light
4 5.9

A bad way to show or talk about something

double negative
  • UK
3 5.6

A sentence that uses two negative words in the same clause

negative charge
  • Specialized
2 4.1

A state when an object has more electrons than protons and so attracts positive objects, for example a rubbed balloon

negative correlation
  • Specialized
1 4.6

A connection between two things where one goes up as the other goes down

negative outlook
1 4.7

A tendency to expect bad things to happen

negative balance
1 4.8

An account amount below zero when you owe money to the bank

negative Nancy
  • Offensive
1 8.9

A person who always expects bad things to happen

negative Nelly
  • Offensive
1 8.2

A person who always expects the worst and often complains

negative stimulus
1 7.1

Something unpleasant that makes an action less likely

Rh-negative blood
  • Specialized
1 5.0

Blood with red blood cells that do not have the Rh factor

negative magnetic pole
  • Specialized
7.3

The end of a magnet that points toward the Earth's south

negative muon
  • Specialized
9.9

A tiny charged particle that lasts about 2 microseconds and becomes an electron and two neutrinos

Negative Ned
  • Offensive
8.7

A person who always sees the bad side of things

negative pole
  • Specialized
3.9

The end of a magnet that points toward the Earth's south

negative bitchola
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who often thinks things will go wrong and complains

negative chemotaxis
  • Specialized
7.8

Movement of a cell or small organism away from a chemical

negative feedback circuit
  • Specialized
4.6

An electronic system that returns part of the output to reduce and steady the signal

negative identification
  • Specialized
7.7

A way to show someone is not one of the known people so they cannot make multiple accounts

negative pole
  • Specialized
4.0

The end of a battery marked with a minus sign that connects to the black wire

negative reinforcer
  • Specialized
7.9

Taking away something unpleasant makes a person or animal do something more often

negative reinforcing stimulus
  • Specialized
9.6

A thing taken away to make an action less likely, for example leaving a room when a child cries

negative stimulation
7.7

An unpleasant thing that makes someone feel bad or lose interest

Rh-negative blood type
  • Specialized
6.0

A blood group in which red blood cells do not have the Rh factor

Rh negative
  • Specialized
6.8

Having blood whose red blood cells do not have the Rh factor

How Opposed

veto
205 4.9
to reject
839 1.9
to negative
  • Formal
7.5
to oppose
∞ 2.9
to object
349 5.1

Surface Forms

negative infinitive
negated past
negated past participle
negating present participle
negatives third person singular

Etymology

Negative as a verb comes from the Latin negare 'to deny', so to negative a proposal is to vote 'no' or refuse approval.