English-Polish translations for negative

• negatyw
• negatywny
  Był to raczej sygnał negatywny. This was a rather negative signal.
  Dlaczego pani poseł maluje dziś tak negatywny obraz? Why is she painting such a negative picture today?
  Ma to negatywny wpływ na wydajność. This has a negative impact on productivity.
• niekorzystny
  Obserwuje się jednak także niekorzystny rozwój zdarzeń. Then there are the negative developments, however.
  Niekorzystny wpływ na turystykę ma także światowy kryzys gospodarczy. The global economic crisis has also had a negative effect on tourism.
  Ma to niekorzystny wpływ na niektóre państwa członkowskie i ich mechanizmy kontroli wewnętrznej. This reflects negatively on some Member States and their internal control mechanisms.
• odrzucać
• ujemny
  Według szacunków wszystkie państwa członkowskie odnotują w tym roku ujemny wzrost. It is estimated that all Member States will have negative growth rates this year.
  Natomiast bez koordynacji jeden plus jeden może dać wynik ujemny. Without coordination, one plus one might give a negative result.
  Obecnie Rumunia ma ujemny przyrost naturalny przy śmiertelności 12%. At present, Romania has negative natural growth, with a mortality rate of 12%.
• wrogi
• zaprzeczenie

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