Phrase Hound found 116 phrases and 30 compound words that contain negative. The most common are listed below. Open negative in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 116
- negative feedbackA situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to reduce the fluctuations in the output, whether caused by changes in the input or by other disturbances.
- negative number
- false negativeA result of a test that shows as absent something that is present.
- negative pressurePressure that is less than normal atmospheric pressure
- non-negativeNot negative.
- negative NancyA person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic.
- double negativeA phrase including two negative words (no, not, never, etc.) especially when used as intensifiers in informal English.
- HIV negativeNot infected by HIV.
- negative numbersplural of negative number
- Negative value
- Negative results
- negative zeroA signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a negative number.
- sex-negativeHaving a generally negative view of sexuality; seeking to repress and control the libido; (in particular) seeking to ban sex work, pornography, and kinky or unusual kinds of sex.
- negative capabilityThe capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty.
- negative harmonyundertone/subharmonic series?
- negative costThe net expense to produce and shoot a film, excluding such expenditures as distribution and promotion.
- negative costsplural of negative cost: The net expense to produce and shoot a film, excluding such expenditures as distribution and promotion.
- negative edgeThe point in time when a signal's value becomes low.
- negative equityThe amount by which the market value of a property falls below the amount of the mortgage secured upon it.
- negative interestA fee deducted from money to be stored in a bank, instead of interest paid on that money.
- negative senseOf an RNA strand, complementary to the positive sense and not transcribed into DNA.
- negative spaceThe space around and between the subjects of an image.
- negative transferThe unsuccessful use by a language learner of a construct from the learner's source language in the target language, such that the resulting utterance in the target language is incorrect.
- task-negativeOf a brain region: not active while the person is carrying out a goal-oriented task.
- negative verbAn auxiliary verb used for negation in certain languages.
Compound words 30
- negentropyThe difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system.
- binegativeNegative towards bisexuality; biphobic.
- negativistOne who exhibits negativism.
- negativizeTo make negative.
- pseudonegativeResembling a negative state or condition.
- homonegativeHolding or expressing negative attitudes toward homosexuality.
- negamileA proposed unit of saved travel, equivalent to one mile not travelled.
- negativerOne who negatives.
- negativizationThe process by which a seropositive person becomes seronegative.
- negatripA car trip not taken.