negative

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noun

1 denial

PHRASES

▪ in the negative

▪

She answered the question in the negative.

2 developed photographic film

ADJECTIVE

▪ original

▪ enlarged

▪ photographic

▪ film, glass

… OF NEGATIVES

▪ strip

VERB + NEGATIVE

▪ produce

▪ develop, print

▪

His interest in photography started with him developing negatives that he found lying around the house.

▪ scan

▪

Pictures and negatives were scanned using a flatbed scanner.

▪ keep

▪

We must assume that the spy kept the negatives.

▪ destroy

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adj.

1 only thinking about/showing sb/sth's bad qualities

VERBS

▪ be, feel, seem, sound

▪ become

▪ remain

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ decidedly, highly, profoundly, significantly (esp. AmE), strongly

▪

Their attitude was highly negative.

▪

the strongly negative implications of these survey results

▪ completely, entirely, purely, totally, wholly

▪

She spoke in entirely negative terms.

▪ largely, overwhelmingly, predominantly

▪ increasingly

▪ overly

▪

Some people have accused me of being overly negative.

▪ uniformly

▪

Reaction to last night's attack was uniformly negative.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

▪ apparently, seemingly

▪ essentially

▪

Critical thinking is essentially negative as it seeks to dissect and not to build.

▪ potentially

▪ generally

PREPOSITION

▪ about

▪

He's been rather negative about the idea.

2 showing that sth has not happened/been found

ADVERB

▪ falsely

VERBS

▪ be, prove, test

▪

The antibody test proved negative.

▪

He tested negative for HIV infection.

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

The urine tests were negative for protein.

Negative is used with these nouns: ↑answer, ↑aspect, ↑association, ↑attitude, ↑balance, ↑comment, ↑connotation, ↑consequence, ↑correlation, ↑coverage, ↑criticism, ↑effect, ↑emotion, ↑energy, ↑evaluation, ↑expectation, ↑experience, ↑fashion, ↑feedback, ↑feeling, ↑force, ↑image, ↑imagery, ↑impact, ↑implication, ↑impression, ↑influence, ↑margin, ↑message, ↑mood, ↑number, ↑outcome, ↑outlook, ↑overtone, ↑perception, ↑portrayal, ↑publicity, ↑quality, ↑reaction, ↑reinforcement, ↑relationship, ↑repercussion, ↑reply, ↑report, ↑reputation, ↑resolution, ↑response, ↑result, ↑return, ↑review, ↑sense, ↑sentence, ↑side, ↑side effect, ↑slant, ↑slope, ↑smear, ↑spin, ↑stance, ↑stereotype, ↑stimulus, ↑symptom, ↑tactic, ↑term, ↑test, ↑thing, ↑thought, ↑tone, ↑trait, ↑trend, ↑view, ↑voltage, ↑vote