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negativo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • minus prep Reduced by; with a certain amount subtracted.
  • negative adj Expressing disapproval, pessimism, or something undesirable.
  • unfriendly adj Not friendly; cold or hostile in manner.

Senses

negativo is used for these senses in English:

  • minus (mathematics) A negative quantity. [from 18th c.]
  • minus sign (arithmetic) The symbol −, used to denote the operation of subtraction or to indicate that a number is negative.
  • negative (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
  • unfriendly Unfavourable.

minus — full definition

  1. prep Reduced by; with a certain amount subtracted.
  2. noun A drawback or disadvantage.
  3. adj Negative, or below a given value.

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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