negative

negatiivi

negatiivinen

hylkäys not positive or neutral
puhekieltä of electrical charge of an electron and related particles (defdate)
puhekieltä of number, less than zero
puhekieltä denying a proposition
damaging; undesirable; unfavourable

The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.

Customers didnt like it: feedback was mostly negative.''

I dont like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.''

The nitro group is negative.

Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy... In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy).

The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages... Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.

If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself... Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.

Geoffrey Riddell :w:Bishop of Ely|Bishop of Ely … made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at :w:Glemsford Glemsford. :w:Samson of Tottington|The Abbot, a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a negative.

And as to the Constitutionality of laws, that point will come before the Judges in their proper official character. In this character they have a negative on the laws.

The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; ...

In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.

Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.

And being of warm blood he had not the phlegm tacitly to negative any proposition by unresponsive inaction.

"A comely maid, that," said the other.

"True, comely enough. But unless I make a great mistake—" And he negatived the remainder of the definition forthwith.

At one time an idea got abroad that the whole tale of her fortune had been a myth; (..) but the boastings of various servants who declared they had seen her with “rolls on rolls” of banknotes (..) negatived the truth of this statement.

The War Office said Miss Nightingale is a very slow office, an enormously expensive office, and one in which the Minister's intentions can be entirely negatived by all his sub-departments, and those of each of the sub-departments by every other.

Yet he made his largesse daily more lavish, as he saw the king negativing his efforts by taking care of the orphans and showing his remorse for the murder of his sons by his tenderness towards their little ones.