Both Uses of
negative
in
The Fountainhead
- Once, after beating Willie Lovett with the affirmative of "The Pen Is Mightier than the Sword," he challenged Willie to reverse their positions, took the negative and won again.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- Nothing had happened to him—a happening is a positive reality, and no reality could ever make him helpless; this was some enormous negative—as if everything had been wiped out, leaving a senseless emptiness, faintly indecent because it seemed so ordinary, so unexciting, like murder wearing a homey smile.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(negative as in: had a negative effect) bad or harmful