English-Italian translations for negative

• negativo
  Non penso che dovremmo avere un atteggiamento negativo. I do not think we should be negative.
  Un onere in alcuni casi negativo. And sometimes, a negative burden.
  La risoluzione comprende però anche un aspetto molto negativo. Yet the resolution also has a very negative aspect.
• negativa
  Tale tendenza negativa è destinata a proseguire nel 2009. This negative trend is continuing in 2009.
  Tuttavia, la maggior parte delle proposte presentate è negativa. However, most of the proposals put forward are 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