English Dictionary

negative

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnɛɡətɪv/

動詞

他動詞

(transitive) To refuse; to veto. / (transitive) To contradict. / (transitive) To disprove. / (transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.

日本語の意味

拒否する（意志を示して受け入れない） / 否決する（提案などを正式に否定する） / 反論する（意見に対して矛盾を述べる） / 否定する（事実や主張を打ち消す、正しくないと示す） / 効果を打ち消す、中和する（作用を無効にする、元に戻す）

The supervisor had to negative the overtime request due to budget constraints.

上司は予算の制約のため、残業の申請を拒否せざるを得ませんでした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To refuse; to veto.

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

意味（2）

(transitive) To contradict.

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.

意味（3）

(transitive) To disprove.

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.

意味（4）

(transitive) To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate.

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.

negatives （ present singular third-person ）

negativing （ participle present ）

negatived （ participle past ）

negatived （ past ）