All 13 Uses of

negative
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

I've sent other people there, in the past. I've heard nothing negative.
p. 64.8 *

negative = critical or bad

He'd never even met a retarded person, and he found that the images he had were all negative.
p. 383.7

negative = indicating criticism or disagreement, or "no"

Paul stood by the closed door, his arms folded, radiating impatience, while David set up the developing process, pouring out the chemicals and sliding the negative into the enlarger.†
p. 201.4 *

There was not only one photo in a negative, his father said; there were multitudes.†
p. 214.9

Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:

He'd thrown the photos out, negatives and all, but still they haunted him.†
p. 108.5

Against the light were negatives he'd developed the week before: a series of photos of a human vein, taken in sequence, in gradations of precisely controlled light, the level of contrast changing subtly with each one.†
p. 152.6

He forced himself to take several deep breaths, then took the negatives down and slipped Paul's X-rays beneath the clips.†
p. 152.9 *

The others were standing up now too, taking out folder after folder, spreading the prints and the negatives, so carefully arranged, on the floor.†
p. 216.7

Duke let the photo slip to the floor and joined the others, who had gone a little wilder now, scattering photos and negatives all over the shiny painted floors.†
p. 216.8

He turned and surveyed the room: photos everywhere, lifting in the breeze from the window, the negatives strewn like streamers from the counters and the lights.†
p. 217.3

So Norah had been sitting on the painted floor since early morning, slicing through boxes with an X-Acto knife, lifting out folders full of photographs and negatives and notes, determined to remain detached, to be ruthless, in this process of selection.†
p. 361.4

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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