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as in hostile
marked by opposition or ill will
classes that hopefully will change the negative attitude that some students have toward the recent immigrants
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as in unfavorable
opposed to one's interests
the almost universally negative reaction to the book
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as in veto
a vote or decision against something
in the absence of an unambiguous negative from the commander, we decided to continue on the mission
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as in opposite
something that is as different as possible from something else
the desire to control another person is actually the negative of real love
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as in disadvantage
a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success
the main negative of this job is that I have to get up at 4:30 a.m.
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as in to dismiss
to reject by or as if by a vote
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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as in to deny
to declare not to be true
the governor's press secretary promptly negatived the rumor that he was not intending to run for reelection
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as in to reject
to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to
even though I had originally negatived the invitation, Mom thought I should go anyway
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as in to offset
to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective
no amount of flattery is likely to negative that overheard insult
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as in to refuse
to be unwilling to grant
ultimately, we negatived the request for a personal loan
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Recent Examples of negative
Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
While plenty of Trump allies circulated negative reports and rumors about Harris’ personal life on social media during the campaign, the president himself never went there that literally.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
Analysts like him would pore over positive duplicates of negatives, examining them under a micro-stereoscope to see sites in three dimensions.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Yueqi Yang, Time, 20 Apr. 2022
Travelers also need to negative COVID-19 test within one day of flying to return to the United States.
—Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022
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Adjective
Commonly used for water-, oil- and stain-resistance in textiles, some of the chemicals belonging to this class have been associated with negative health effects such as birth defects and cancer.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
While plenty of Trump allies circulated negative reports and rumors about Harris’ personal life on social media during the campaign, the president himself never went there that literally.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
The analysts recognize the negatives but said their checks of Adobe’s enterprise customers were positive.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
Analysts like him would pore over positive duplicates of negatives, examining them under a micro-stereoscope to see sites in three dimensions.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
But with sales growth expected to go from triple digits in 2021 to negative this year, shares have tanked to a record low recently.
—Yueqi Yang, Time, 20 Apr. 2022
Travelers also need to negative COVID-19 test within one day of flying to return to the United States.
—Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for negative
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Students from the kingdom are increasingly turning away from US universities in particular, put off by a mix of hostile immigration policies, concerns over gun violence, and the kingdom’s own push to grow its domestic education sector.—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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The move to social media and algorithmic media was really a move toward a style of political communication that is somewhat hostile to the liberal project and the deliberative, open-minded, thoughtful, on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand mode of discourse that Obama is good at.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Even as tragedy and struggle beset the tenement districts, the very qualities that defined the tenement’s unfavorable physical conditions—over-crowdedness and density—became building blocks for community.—
Annie Polland,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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When unfavorable ratios of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol were considered, those with the least favorable ratios had a 54% higher risk of high blood pressure.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Pope won five of the last six veto competitions, plus two HOHs to ensure her safety all on her own over the last month.—
Christopher Kuhagen,
jsonline.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Yet the trajectory of European opinion that the recognition wave represents could push Germany and Italy to lift their veto.—
SHIRA EFRON,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Sep. 2025
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In fact, actually the opposite.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The two women, however, are polar opposites.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Are there any disadvantages to redshirting?—
Erick Trevino,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Across the country, girls and women are once again being asked to overcome structural disadvantages that Title IX was designed to eliminate.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Once the contestants are dismissed from the runway, the judges get more into it.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing his Miami Hurricanes football star teammate in 2006 want prosecutors sanctioned — or the murder case dismissed — after a key witness, who state prosecutors believed was dead, was found alive by an ESPN reporter.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The organization denied any criminal activity.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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Peng denies such ties, and says Pony’s Chinese expertise may give it advantages in the US — despite the hostile political climate.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Prosecutors also sought another charge of making false statements, court documents released Thursday show, but the grand jury rejected it.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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ByteDance and TikTok had challenged the law on First Amendment grounds but the Supreme Court rejected its appeal.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Negative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negative. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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