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negativeadjective marked by opposition or ill willclasses that hopefully will change the negative attitude that some students have toward the recent immigrants adversarial, adversary, antagonistic, antipathetic, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, jaundiced, mortal, unfriendly, unsympathetic adverse, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, clashing, combative, conflicting, contentious, contrary, disputatious, militant, opposed, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resisting, scrappy, truculentantisocial, cold, cool, disagreeable, disapproving, distant, frigid, icybiased, prejudiceddiscourteous, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, rude, surly, uncivil, unfavorable, unkind, unmannerly, unpleasant, unsociableacrimonious, bitter, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, opprobrious, rancorous, spiteful, unloving, vindictive, virulent friendly, hospitable, nonantagonistic, nonhostile, sympathetic affable, amiable, amicable, civil, companionable, comradely, convivial, cordial, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, gregarious, neighborly, pleasant, sociable, social, warmaffectionate, devoted, kind, kindly, loving, nice, sweetaccepting, agreeable, approving, benign, empathetic, favorable, understanding, warmhearted, welcoming opposed to one's intereststhe almost universally negative reaction to the book adverse, counter, disadvantageous, hostile, inimical, prejudicial, unfavorable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, untoward bad, baleful, baneful, evildamaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, fatal, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, lethal, malignant, murderous, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, ruinous, threatening, troublesome, unhealthy, woundingdangerous, hazardous, imperiling(or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafecalumnious, defamatory, detractive, offensive, scathing, slanderousantagonistic, antipathetic, inhospitable, intolerant, uncongenial, uncooperativecompeting, conflicting, counteracting, countering, opposing, resistant, resisting advantageous, favorable, friendly, positive, supportive, sympathetic, well-disposed beneficial, good, helpful, propitious, usefulharmless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, nondestructive, nonfatal, nonlethal, nonthreateningunresistanttolerant, understandingaffable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, benign, benignant, complying, congenial, cordial, friendly, hospitable negativenouna vote or decision against somethingin the absence of an unambiguous negative from the commander, we decided to continue on the mission nay, no, non placet conblackball, vetodenial, negation, refusal positive, yea, yes proacceptance, approval, grace something that is as different as possible from something elsethe desire to control another person is actually the negative of real love antipode, antithesis, contrary, counter, obverse, opposite, reverse negationantonymcounterpointconverse, inverse, mirror image synonymanalogue(or analog), counterpartcarbon copy, copy, duplicate, replica a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving successthe main negative of this job is that I have to get up at 4:30 a.m. debit, disadvantage, disbenefit, downside, drawback, handicap, incommodity, liability, minus, strike albatross, millstone, strangleholddisability, impairmentfailing, shortcomingbar, catch, check, clog, crimp, embarrassment, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, rub, shackle, stop, trammel advantage, asset, edge, plus vantagehead start, jump, lead, margin, startascendancy(also ascendency), better, command, control, drop, mastery, predominance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, upper handprerogative, privilegebreak, opportunityaid, assistance, help negativeverbto reject by or as if by a votealthough the rebuttal was very eloquent, the jury negatived it in favor of the prosecution's argument we promptly negatived the idea of having pizza again for dinner, noting that we had already had it for three nights that week blackball, down, kill, nix, shoot down, veto decline, disallow, disapprove, dismiss, refuseblacklist confirm, ratify admit, allow, approve, assent (to), pass, sanctionelect, support to declare not to be truethe governor's press secretary promptly negatived the rumor that he was not intending to run for reelection contradict, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, disown, gainsay, negate, refute, reject, repudiate traversechallenge, confute, disprove, rebutdisagree (with), dispute acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confirm, own accept, adopt, embrace, espouseaffirm, announce, assert, aver, claim, declare, maintain, profess, submitauthenticate, corroborate, substantiate, validate, verify to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree toeven though I had originally negatived the invitation, Mom thought I should go anyway balk (at), decline, deselect, disapprove, nix, pass, pass up, refuse, reject, reprobate, repudiate, spurn, throw out, throw over, turn down blow off, disdain, rebuff, scorn, scout, shoot downoverrule, vetoforbid, prohibit, proscribedismiss, ignoreabstain (from), forbear, refrain (from)deny, disavow, disclaim, dispute, gainsaystickabjure, forswear(also foreswear), recant, renounce, retract, take back, unsay, withdrawavoid, bypass, detourcontradict, deny, disown, negatecontrovert, disagree (with), disprove, dispute, rebut, refuteback down, back off, backtrackdisallow, recall, renege, revoke turn one's back on accept, agree (to), approve condone, countenance, swallow, tolerateadopt, embrace, receive, take, welcomeaccede, acquiesce, agree, assent, consentchoose, handpick, selectespouse, support to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffectiveno amount of flattery is likely to negative that overheard insult annul, cancel (out), compensate (for), correct, counteract, counterbalance, counterpoise, make up (for), neutralize, offset invalidate, negate, neuter, nullifyatone (for)outbalance, outweigh, redeemredress, relieve, remedyoverride, overrule to be unwilling to grantultimately, we negatived the request for a personal loan decline, deny, disallow, disapprove, nix, refuse, reject, reprobate, withhold ban, enjoin, forbid, prohibit, proscribe, vetorebuff, repel, spurncheck, constrain, curb, hold, keep, repress, restrain, restrictbalk (at), hinder, impede, obstruct allow, concede, grant, let, OK(or okay), permit afford, furnish, give, provide, supplyauthorize, commission, license(also licence)accede (to), acquiesce, agree (to), assent (to), consent (to), warrantaccord, sanction, vouchsafe in the 15th century |