Definition for Negative:

• Phot. A picture having the lights and shades reversed.

Synonyms for Negative:

• adj.

  •adverse (adjective)
  • unpropitious.
  •bad, contradictory (adjective)
  • naysaying,
  • unwilling,
  • invalidating,
  • weak,
  • Privative,
  • opposing,
  • dissenting,
  • Contravening,
  • Abrogating,
  • jaundiced,
  • resistive,
  • Resisting,
  • nugatory,
  • Refusing,
  • Impugning,
  • Annulling,
  • Neutralizing,
  • Disavowing,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • colorless,
  • Nullifying,
  • Rejecting,
  • Denying,
  • uninterested,
  • Gainsaying,
  • unaffirmative,
  • antagonistic,
  • con,
  • Disallowing.
  •counter-evidential (adjective)
  • contradictory,
  • Disproving,
  • counter-evidential.
  •electrical (adjective)
  • electrical,
  • magnetic,
  • inductive,
  • conductive,
  • electromagnetic,
  • electronic,
  • technical.
  •minus (adjective)
  • minus.
  •noncompliant (adjective)
  • Declinatory.
  •nonexistent (adjective)
  • Non-existent.
  •opposite (adjective)
  • converse,
  • reverse,
  • opposite,
  • antithetical,
  • diametric,
  • inverse,
  • Contra.

• n.

  •
  • admissible,
  • repugnant,
  • adversarial,
  • active,
  • arc,
  • brownout.
  •
  • adjunct,
  • emphatic,
  • antecedent,
  • counteractive,
  • collocate,
  • article,
  • absent,
  • removed,
  • clause,
  • case,
  • allomorph,
  • allophone,
  • accusative.
  •
  • accusing,
  • blistering,
  • accept,
  • acerbic,
  • acid,
  • astringent,
  • barbed,
  • accusatory,
  • acrid,
  • turn down,
  • biting.
  •
  • confound,
  • deflate,
  • discredit,
  • disabuse,
  • explode,
  • dispute,
  • affirm,
  • debunk,
  • refute.
  •
  • help.
  •
  • hazardous,
  • injurious,
  • unsafe,
  • disastrous,
  • risky,
  • ruinous,
  • dangerous,
  • perilous.
  •
  • no way,
  • hardly,
  • not really,
  • certainly not.
  •
  • binary,
  • decimal,
  • even,
  • divisible,
  • indivisible,
  • hexadecimal,
  • average,
  • calculable,
  • annualized.
  •
  • antimalarial,
  • antibacterial,
  • clear,
  • antenatal,
  • bloodless,
  • combination,
  • clinical,
  • broad-spectrum,
  • aseptic,
  • bionic.
  •
  • broken,
  • bleak,
  • gloomy,
  • hopeless,
  • pessimistic.
  •
  • candid,
  • blow up,
  • microdot,
  • filmstrip.
  •
  • crime,
  • deterrence,
  • goad,
  • cloud,
  • disincentive,
  • evil,
  • blow,
  • deterrent.
  •contradiction (noun)
  • disavowal,
  • refusal,
  • refutation.
  •denial (noun)
  • nonacceptance.
  •negative (noun)
  • blackball,
  • harmful,
  • backward,
  • counter,
  • damaging,
  • dismissive,
  • dissident,
  • bad,
  • disadvantageous,
  • perverse,
  • electronegative.
  •opposite (noun)
  • antithesis,
  • antonym,
  • negation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • daguerreotype,
  • fatalistic,
  • dejected,
  • resistant,
  • oppugn,
  • Disaffirm,
  • bipolar,
  • opposed,
  • not,
  • despairing,
  • halftone,
  • Whipped,
  • bleakly,
  • apocalyptic,
  • rebellious,
  • photomontage.
  •
  • film,
  • cynical,
  • hopelessly,
  • snapshot.
  •
  • transparency,
  • contravene,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • untoward.
  •
  • Against.
  •
  • slide.
  •
  • print,
  • still.
  •compensate
  • cancel out.
  •counteract
  • countercheck.
  •deny
  • spurn,
  • withhold,
  • not buy.
  •disprove
  • belie,
  • disconfirming,
  • disconfirm.
  •kill
  • kill.
  •Other relevant words:
  • detrimentally,
  • critic,
  • sound track,
  • shadowy,
  • frame,
  • Chromolithograph,
  • mortal,
  • disavow,
  • inconsistent,
  • nix,
  • Talbotype,
  • clinch an argument,
  • disobedient,
  • numerical,
  • lithograph,
  • badly,
  • confute,
  • retention,
  • unsupportive,
  • real,
  • unhappy,
  • gloomily,
  • abnegation,
  • cold,
  • destroy,
  • rational,
  • argumentative,
  • backing,
  • disown,
  • repudiative,
  • mouldy,
  • Uncomplaisant,
  • interest,
  • protoplasm,
  • unconvinced,
  • adversative,
  • photographic paper,
  • prejudicial,
  • cast,
  • Contradicting,
  • at variance,
  • incompatible,
  • emulsion,
  • unenthusiastically,
  • Yin,
  • enemy,
  • unsympathetic,
  • blue,
  • beg off,
  • Omitted,
  • impair,
  • out of whack,
  • declination,
  • revoke,
  • cheek,
  • pro,
  • impress,
  • image,
  • etching,
  • NEG,
  • renunciation,
  • cranky,
  • blackout,
  • out of accord,
  • Calotype,
  • far from it,
  • expose,
  • dissent,
  • style,
  • imaginary,
  • disclaim,
  • last,
  • abolish,
  • strike,
  • sound-on-film,
  • nihilistic,
  • negativism,
  • decline,
  • imprint,
  • repudiation,
  • differential,
  • mold,
  • suspensory veto,
  • dope,
  • evade,
  • design,
  • conflicting,
  • deaf to,
  • positive charge,
  • drawback,
  • no such thing,
  • deprivation,
  • at cross purposes,
  • destructively,
  • pocket veto,
  • adversary,
  • missing,
  • rejective,
  • noncooperative,
  • Disclaiming,
  • counterbalance,
  • differing,
  • Disallowance,
  • dissentious,
  • unresponsive,
  • Denied,
  • gram-negative,
  • disaffirming,
  • downside,
  • mint,
  • melancholy,
  • judgmental,
  • negative film,
  • mezzotint,
  • logarithmic,
  • refractory,
  • tripack,
  • hold out,
  • countervail,
  • forbid,
  • at odds,
  • nowise,
  • au contraire,
  • Contrasted,
  • motion-picture film,
  • Disaccordant,
  • say no,
  • nonmetallic,
  • joyless,
  • copperplate,
  • disagreeable,
  • soundstripe,
  • heliograph,
  • inauspicious,
  • in the negative,
  • Disclamation,
  • undo,
  • prohibit,
  • disharmonious,
  • undercut,
  • offset,
  • annul,
  • negative attitude,
  • morose,
  • hold out against,
  • adversely,
  • text,
  • objection,
  • stamp,
  • exponential,
  • thwart,
  • variant,
  • antipathetic,
  • derogatory,
  • uncomplimentary,
  • negativeness,
  • vitiate,
  • shake the head,
  • voiding,
  • subtrahend,
  • defence,
  • woodblock,
  • Numerative,
  • unconsenting,
  • dismiss,
  • oppositive,
  • STAT,
  • disobedience,
  • virtual,
  • contradiction,
  • unharmonious,
  • numeric,
  • begrudge,
  • Submultiple,
  • traversal,
  • nonobservance,
  • side,
  • nein,
  • repeal,
  • figurative,
  • overthrow,
  • on no account,
  • prohibition,
  • snap,
  • Proplasm,
  • reciprocal,
  • noncompliance,
  • numeral,
  • mould,
  • glum,
  • cynically,
  • rebuff,
  • repel,
  • recantation,
  • Numerary,
  • uncheerful,
  • disapproving,
  • seal,
  • reduction,
  • pass,
  • engraving,
  • proof,
  • cartridge,
  • dismal,
  • condemnatory,
  • obverse,
  • offprint,
  • not think of,
  • jangling,
  • smear campaign,
  • Cancelling,
  • transcendental,
  • turn thumbs down on,
  • break,
  • deselect,
  • grating,
  • odd,
  • hypercritical,
  • shot,
  • heliotype,
  • protestant,
  • Inexistent,
  • dyslogistic,
  • puncture,
  • recalcitrant,
  • bar,
  • harmfully,
  • nohow,
  • holograph,
  • show up,
  • vehicle,
  • rule against,
  • dirty politics,
  • matte,
  • digital,
  • prime,
  • finite,
  • photocopy,
  • uselessly,
  • nyet,
  • silence,
  • pessimistically,
  • figural,
  • obstinate,
  • competitive,
  • neuter,
  • disparaging,
  • buffer,
  • stand aloof,
  • contact print,
  • to the contrary,
  • aquatint,
  • possible,
  • discrepant,
  • enlargement,
  • dissonant,
  • pessimist,
  • prejudicious,
  • Overthwart,
  • subvert,
  • lacking,
  • Figurate,
  • shun,
  • radical,
  • double negative,
  • disowning,
  • avoid,
  • defeat,
  • arithmetical,
  • nullify,
  • blank,
  • item veto,
  • plate,
  • orthochromatic film,
  • have,
  • aliquot,
  • inharmonious,
  • proscribe,
  • void,
  • copy,
  • inhospitable,
  • declining,
  • double-digit,
  • Negatory,
  • depressed,
  • antipodean,
  • woodcut,
  • uncongenial,
  • Recanting,
  • sad,
  • bring to naught,
  • unconstructive,
  • holding back,
  • sceptical,
  • withholding,
  • forlorn,
  • ban,
  • Disputing,
  • frustrate,
  • oppositional,
  • immiscible,
  • shut up,
  • Aye,
  • useless,
  • moulder,
  • ordinal,
  • sound film,
  • reject,
  • electrical charge,
  • Abjuratory,
  • dry plate,
  • unexisting,
  • unconverted,
  • turn the tables,
  • hang fire,
  • blankly,
  • jarring,
  • cancel,
  • liability,
  • unwillingness,
  • ostracise,
  • vote against,
  • abrogate,
  • negatively,
  • Logometric,
  • complex,
  • uncomplying,
  • depreciative,
  • cross,
  • pack,
  • turn the scale,
  • punch,
  • non-content,
  • vacuous,
  • inimical,
  • minuend,
  • interdict,
  • Engravement,
  • disagreeing,
  • devoid,
  • cast out,
  • unfriendly,
  • Xylograph,
  • impression,
  • cheerless,
  • not hear of,
  • stone,
  • demolish,
  • antithetic,
  • Oppugnant,
  • reprint,
  • disclaimer,
  • come to nothing,
  • vignette,
  • despondent,
  • Declinature,
  • exclude,
  • discourage,
  • turndown,
  • infinite,
  • abnegate,
  • outlaw,
  • disputatious,
  • thumbs-down,
  • declension,
  • disinclined,
  • cut both ways,
  • diametrically opposed,
  • grudge,
  • bibliofilm,
  • Non,
  • stultify,
  • throw out,
  • be unwilling,
  • Fugleman,
  • form,
  • burin,
  • depreciatory,
  • dubious,
  • Abnegative,
  • banish,
  • visionary,
  • Revocatory,
  • discard,
  • clashing,
  • nonmetal,
  • heavy-hearted,
  • color photograph,
  • keynote,
  • downhearted,
  • uncooperative,
  • fractional,
  • cynic,
  • impossible,
  • cut,
  • disbenefit,
  • disagreement,
  • negativity,
  • negating,
  • overrule,
  • alien,
  • plus,
  • annihilate,
  • mimeograph copy,
  • contrarious,
  • spectral,
  • pejorative,
  • disappoint,
  • disallow,
  • integral,
  • pair,
  • neutralise,
  • abjuration,
  • insubstantial,
  • opponent,
  • Nonjuring,
  • photographic plate,
  • Renunciatory,
  • unfavourable,
  • plasm,
  • Inaccordant,
  • at war,
  • algorithmic,
  • contrarily,
  • not a bit,
  • critical,
  • rival,
  • panchromatic film,
  • renounce,
  • weaken,
  • die,
  • refuse,
  • picture,
  • Graphotype,
  • intaglio,
  • uncompliant,
  • critically,
  • in no respect,
  • ostracize,
  • template,
  • divergent,
  • surd,
  • not a jot,
  • bipack,
  • doubtfully,
  • irrational,
  • block,
  • roll,
  • absolute veto,
  • hostile,
  • disagree,
  • rejection,
  • matrix,
  • wood block,
  • Graver,
  • Redargue,
  • disproportionate,
  • doubtful,
  • Nill,
  • at loggerheads,
  • renunciative,
  • cool,
  • Incommodity,
  • fractious,
  • cardinal,
  • wood engraving,
  • discordant,
  • parry.

Paraphrases for Negative:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    unfavorable, harmful.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    hiv-negative, seronegative.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    destructive, disruptive, objectionable, perverse, disastrous, untoward, nefarious, downside, unpleasant, unsatisfactory, noxious, inappropriate, non-positive, undesired, debilitating, regressive, inclement, dire, subversive, unwanted, favourable, deteriorating, nuisance, dangerous, serious, critical, depressing.
  • Proper noun, singular
    passive.
  • Noun, plural
    disadvantages, Disincentives, stereotypes, failures, outcomes, weaknesses, Films, cons.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    downside.
  • Verb, base form
    negate, veto.

• Other Related

  • Cardinal number
    Negatory.
  • Adjective
    disadvantageous, damaging, deleterious, negative-equity, disadvantaged, counterproductive, pernicious, prejudicial, adverse, injurious, pessimistic, unfortunate, devastating, downward, inimical, unwelcome, hostile, nonperforming, unhealthy, poor, ill, counter-productive, non-performing, unhelpful, disagreeable, passive.
  • Proper noun, singular
    adverse.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    negation, passivity, negativity, passive, rejection.

Antonyms for Negative:

• adj.

  • all
    affirmative, neutral, positive.
  • bad, contradictory
    favorable, confident, good, positive.
  • Other antonyms:
    helpful, benign, cordial, gracious, empathetic, kindly, inoffensive, nonlethal, welcoming, good-tempered, sociable, genial, beneficial, pleasant, warm, convivial, companionable, good-natured, sympathetic, innocuous, accepting, loving, social, innocent, affable, comradely, gregarious, devoted, tolerant, nondestructive, understanding, complying, agreeable, congenial, well-disposed, civil, sweet, affectionate, unresistant, uncharged, neighborly, benignant, nonfatal, useful, kind, amicable, harmless, supportive, amiable, hospitable, nice, warmhearted.

• n.

  • communication
    affirmative.
  • contradiction
    approval.

Homophones for Negative:

• nonnegative, nonstop, neck-deep, noncausative, nosedive, nyctophobia, nonassociative, nose dive.

Hypernym for Negative:

• n.

  • communication
    double negative, nay, no.

• v.

  • social
    vote down, defeat, vote out, shoot down, kill.

Hyponym for Negative:

• n.

  • artifact
    film, photographic film.
  • communication
    denial.

• v.

  • social
    contradict, controvert, oppose.