Definition of negative adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary.
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Indicating opposition or resistance:
A negative reaction to the new advertising campaign.
Lacking positive or constructive features, especially:
Had a negative experience.
A fact, situation, or experience that is negative is unpleasant, depressing, or harmful.
The news from overseas is overwhelmingly negative.
All this had an extremely negative effect on the criminal justice.
When we want to say that something is not true or is not the case, we can use negative words, phrases or clauses.
Negation can happen in a number of ways, most commonly, when we use a negative.
The meaning of negative is marked by denial, prohibition, or refusal;
Marked by absence, withholding, or removal of something positive.
How to use negative in a sentence.
A negative answer, commonly expressed with the word no a type of grammatical construction;
See affirmative and negative a double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of.
Expressing or containing negation or denial.
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