English-German translations for negative

• negativ
  Eine sehr negative Entwicklung ist in Gang gekommen. A very negative trend is setting in.
  Ich bin nicht so negativ wie Frau Van Dijk. I am not as negative as Mrs van Dijk.
  Also so viel negative Energie aus Deutschland! There has thus been so much negative energy from Germany!
• Negativ das
  Eine sehr negative Entwicklung ist in Gang gekommen. A very negative trend is setting in.
  Ich bin nicht so negativ wie Frau Van Dijk. I am not as negative as Mrs van Dijk.
  Also so viel negative Energie aus Deutschland! There has thus been so much negative energy from Germany!
• Negativfilm der
• schlecht
  Methan hat gute und schlechte Seiten. Methane has negative as well as positive claims.
  Das ist eine sehr schlechte Entwicklung. This is a very negative development.
  Der freie Dienstleistungsverkehr ist etwas Gutes, nicht etwas Schlechtes. Free trade in services is something positive, not negative.

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