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- classes that hopefully will change the negative attitude that some students have toward the recent immigrants
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- adverse,
- argumentative,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- clashing,
- combative,
- conflicting,
- contentious,
- contrary,
- disputatious,
- militant,
- opposed,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- resisting,
- scrappy,
- truculent
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- the almost universally negative reaction to the book
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- 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,
- parlous,
- perilous,
- risky,
- unsafe
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negative
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of negative (Entry 2 of 3)
- in the absence of an unambiguous negative from the commander, we decided to continue on the mission
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- nay,
- no,
- non placet
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- the desire to control another person is actually the negative of real love
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- the main negative of this job is that I have to get up at 4:30 a.m.
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- head start,
- jump,
- lead,
- margin,
- start
- ascendancy
- (also ascendency),
- better,
- command,
- control,
- drop,
- mastery,
- predominance,
- superiority,
- supremacy,
- transcendence,
- upper hand
Antonyms for negative
negative
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of negative (Entry 3 of 3)
- although the rebuttal was very eloquent, the jury negatived it in favor of the prosecution's argument
- we promptly negatived the idea of having pizza again for dinner, noting that we had already had it for three nights that week
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- the governor's press secretary promptly negatived the rumor that he was not intending to run for reelection
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- even though I had originally negatived the invitation, Mom thought I should go anyway
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- no amount of flattery is likely to negative that overheard insult
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- ultimately, we negatived the request for a personal loan
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- authorize,
- commission,
- license
- (also licence)
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From the Editors at Merriam-Webster
'Negging' Moves Beyond The Bar
'Negging' Moves Beyond The Bar
The skeevy art of the insult as come-on
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The first known use of negative was in the 15th century
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