English-Swedish translations for negative

• negativ ett
  Vi ser en mycket negativ utveckling.A very negative trend is setting in.
  Jag är inte så negativ som Van Dijk är.I am not as negative as Mrs van Dijk.
  För att sammanfatta: revisionsförklaringen är återigen negativ.To sum up: the DAS is once again 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