negative

Synonyms

adverse, counter, disadvantageous, hostile, inimical, prejudicial, unfavorable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, untoward;

Antonyms

advantageous, favorable, friendly, positive, supportive, sympathetic, well-disposed;

Near Antonyms

beneficial, good, helpful, propitious, useful;

harmless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, nondestructive, nonfatal, nonlethal, nonthreatening;

unresistant;

tolerant, understanding;

affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, benign, benignant, complying, congenial, cordial, friendly, hospitable;

Related Words

bad, baleful, baneful, evil;

damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, fatal, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, lethal, malignant, murderous, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, ruinous, threatening, troublesome, unhealthy, wounding;

dangerous, hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, perilous, risky, unsafe;

defamatory, detractive, offensive, scathing, slanderous;

antagonistic, antipathetic, inhospitable, intolerant, uncongenial, uncooperative;

competing, conflicting, counteracting, countering, opposing, resistant, resisting;

Synonyms

debit, disadvantage, downside, drawback, handicap, incommodity, liability, minus, strike;

Antonyms

advantage, asset, edge, plus;

Near Antonyms

vantage;

head start, jump, lead, margin, start;

ascendancy (also ascendency), better, command, control, drop, mastery, predominance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, upper hand;

prerogative, privilege;

break, opportunity;

aid, assistance, help;

Related Words

albatross, millstone, stranglehold;

disability, impairment;

failing, shortcoming;

bar, catch, check, clog, crimp, embarrassment, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, rub, shackle, stop, trammel;

Synonyms

balk (at), decline, disapprove, nix, pass, pass up, refuse, reject, reprobate, repudiate, spurn, throw out, throw over, turn down;

Antonyms

accept, agree (to), approve;

Near Antonyms

condone, countenance, swallow, tolerate;

adopt, embrace, receive, take, welcome;

accede, acquiesce, agree, assent, consent;

choose, handpick, select;

espouse, support;

Related Words

blow off, disdain, rebuff, scorn, scout, shoot down;

overrule, veto;

forbid, prohibit, proscribe;

dismiss, ignore;

abstain (from), forbear, refrain (from);

deny, disavow, disclaim, dispute, gainsay;

stick;

abjure, forswear (also foreswear), recant, renounce, retract, take back, unsay, withdraw;

avoid, bypass, detour;

contradict, deny, disown, negate;

controvert, disagree (with), disprove, dispute, rebut, refute;

back down, back off, backtrack;

disallow, recall, renege, revoke;

Phrases

turn one's back on;