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kielteinen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bad adj Of low quality, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
  • negative adj Expressing disapproval, pessimism, or something undesirable.

Senses

kielteinen is used for these senses in English:

  • bad (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
  • negative Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
  • negative (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
  • negative (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.

bad — full definition

  1. adj Of low quality, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
  2. adj Morally wrong or wicked.
  3. adj Not functioning correctly, spoiled, or faulty.
  4. adj Severe or serious in degree.
  5. adj Informally, excellent, impressive, or admirably tough (a slang meaning that flips the usual sense).

negative — full definition

  1. adj Expressing disapproval, pessimism, or something undesirable.
  2. adj Below zero, or showing that a test did not detect what it was checking for.
  3. noun An unfavourable point, or (in photography) an image with reversed colours/tones.

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