English-French translations for negative

• négatif
  Cependant, nous devons combattre les discours négatifs. Yet we should fight negative discourses.
  À côté de cela, il présente des aspects négatifs. However, there are negative aspects.
  Mais il y a aussi certains aspects négatifs. However, there are also some negative aspects.
• cliché
  En 2004, la priorité sera mise sur la lutte contre les clichés négatifs sur les femmes. In 2004, we will be concentrating on the crucial area of combating negative stereotyped images of women.
• film négatif
• strictement négatif
  Dans sa proposition, la Commission envisage la question des migrations sous un angle strictement négatif. The Commission' s proposal looks at the question of migration from a strictly negative point of view.

Definition of negative

• Not positive nor neutral
• Of a number: less than zero
• Denying a proposition
• damaging#Adjective|Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable
• ''Often used pejoratively'': pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things
• Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colour#Noun|colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed
• ''Often preceded by''''''', '''''', '''''', or '''''': to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging#Adjective|damaging, unpleasant, unwanted
• Characterized by the presence of feature#Noun|features which do not support#Verb|support a hypothesis
• Refusal or withholding#Noun|withholding of assent#Noun|assents; prohibition, veto
• A right#Noun|right of veto
• An image#Noun|image in which dark#Adjective|dark areas represent light#Adjective|light ones, and the converse.
• A negative quantity
• The negative plate#Noun|plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell
• To refuse#Verb|refuse; to veto#Verb|veto
• To contradict
• To disprove
• To make ineffective; to neutralize
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Examples

• The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits
• Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative
• I don’t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems
• The nitro group is negative

Related words

• non-negative
• electronegative
• negatively
• nonnegative
• gram-negative
• negativeness
• seronegative
• negative age
• negative verb