English Dictionary

negative

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnɛɡətɪv/

名詞

Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto / An unfavorable point or characteristic. / (law) A right of veto.

日本語の意味

拒否、承認しないこと（例：何かを許可しない、または拒否する行為） / 不利な点、短所 / (法)拒否権、拒絶権

His negative on the motion stopped the vote.

彼がその議案に同意を拒否したことで、採決は止まった。

意味（1）

Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto

“Upon my word, I can’t eat a morsel,” answered the lady […] There is indeed in perfect beauty a power which none almost can withstand; for my landlady, though she was not pleased at the negative given to the supper, declared she had never seen so lovely a creature.

意味（2）

An unfavorable point or characteristic.

意味（3）

(law) A right of veto.

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.

意味（4）

(photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.

意味（5）

(grammar) A word that indicates negation.

意味（6）

(mathematics) A negative quantity.

意味（7）

(weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.

意味（8）

The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

negatives （ plural ）