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'negative' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'negative' with 18 example sentences.


negative adjective

: characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

: expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

: not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

: reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

: having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

: less than zero

: designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

: having a negative charge

: involving disadvantage or harm

negative noun

: a reply of denial

: a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

negative verb

: vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent


  • The blood test was negative.
  • Electrons have a negative electric charge.
  • I'll write a negative comment from a false account.
  • My blood type is O negative.
  • Stress can have an enormous negative impact on your health.
  • Angela Merkel tested negative for the virus.
  • She has a negative attitude toward life.
  • Accepting negative feedback is hard.
  • Why do you have such a negative approach to life?
  • Don't focus on negative things.
  • I don't want to be negative.
  • The product of two negative numbers is positive.
  • But you know well that this would have negative consequences.
  • I won't translate such a negative sentence.
  • This magic crystal will help eliminate negative vibrations.
  • My response is still negative.
  • I just wrote a negative review about this real estate agency.
  • Some people argue that technology has negative effects.
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