negative

1. (law) A right of veto.Examples: "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."; "The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; […]"; "1983, INS v. Chadha, Opinion of the Court In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws."

2. (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.Antonyms: positive#Noun

3. (grammar) A word that indicates negation.Examples: ""Why, she is one of those persons whom negatives seem invented to describe—I doubt whether she is worth one single bad quality.""

4. (mathematics) A negative quantity.

5. (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.

6. (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.Examples: "You can’t prove a negative."

1. (transitive) To refuse; to veto.Examples: "Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror."; "And being of warm blood he had not the phlegm tacitly to negative any proposition by unresponsive inaction."transitive

2. (transitive) To contradict.Examples: ""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."transitive

3. (transitive) To disprove.Examples: "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."; ""However, the fact that they need crystals negatives that idea...we must seek a material explanation.""transitive

4. (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize; to negate.Examples: ""The War Office," said Miss Nightingale, "is a very slow office, an enormously expensive office, and one in which the Minister's intentions can be entirely negatived by all his sub-departments, and those of each of the sub-departments by every other.""; "In the nature of things, much railway capital expenditure on stations and depots was in the immediate vicinity, if not in the heart, of towns, and extensions or remodellings, apart from being extremely costly, may be entirely negatived by the impossibility of securing the necessary land."; "He was coatless and his thumbs were hooked negligently in a leather belt, thereby negativing a tendency to balance himself on an inclined plane backwards."transitive

1. (law, signalling) No; nay.Examples: ""Negative Marcel. No IOC. Patient has been drinking heavily, we can give him nothing for pain.""