All 5 Uses
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Tears of a Tiger
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- Did you get any negative reactions from people at school?†
*negative = bad or harmful
- Or where black is used as a positive and white is used as a negative?†
- About twenty to twenty-five years ago, social activists started a campaign to get rid of unfair, negative racial stereotypes.†
- And all those thousands of years of the Black Knight and black cats and the blackness of death that people associated with negative ideas were associated with a group of people whose skin happened to be darker than the skin of the folks who seemed to be in charge here.†
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- It's society that implants positives or negatives onto certain ideas.†
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Definitions:
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(negative as in: had a negative effect) bad or harmful
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(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"
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(negative as in: a negative attitude) pessimistic (emphasizing bad things) or disagreeable
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(negative as in: The test came back negative.) did not find a condition or substance to be present
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(negative as in: a negative number) less than zero
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) See a comprehensive dictionary for less common meanings of negative including some in the fields of electricity, physics, chemistry, medicine, photography, and grammar. Note that most non-technical senses of negative indicate that something is bad or lacking.