All 11 Uses of

negative
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

There's a negative reaction to all the weight.†
Part 3

negative = bad or harmful

Phaedrus' argument for the abolition of the degree-and— grading system produced a nonplussed or negative reaction in all but a few students at first, since it seemed, on first judgment, to destroy the whole University system.†
Part 3 *

The dirt, the grease, the mastery of underlying form required all give it such a negative romantic appeal that women never go near it.†
Part 1

John looks at the motorcycle and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these steel shapes and turns off the whole thing.†
Part 2

Before doing this, however, I should go over some of the negative aspects of traditional maintenance to show just where the problems are.†
Part 3

Throughout this Chautauqua so far this whole problem of technological ugliness has been looked at in a negative way.†
Part 3

The overwhelming majority of facts, the sights and sounds that are around us every second and the relationships among them and everything in our memory...these have no Quality, in fact have a negative quality.†
Part 3

I certainly don't see Aristotle's works as a major source of either positive or negative values.†
Part 4

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal.†
Part Aft.

Definitions:

(1) (negative as in: had a negative effect)
bad or harmful
(2) (negative as in: negative feedback from customers)
to express criticism or disagreement, or (especially when talking over a radio or in a military setting) to say "no"
(3) (negative as in: a negative attitude)
pessimistic (emphasizing bad things) or disagreeable
(4) (negative as in: The test came back negative.)
did not find a condition or substance to be present
(5) (negative as in: a negative number)
less than zero
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

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