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What is the adjective for negativity?

What's the adjective for negativity? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs negate, negative, neg and negativize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

negative
  1. not positive or neutral
  2. (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles [from the 18th c.]
  3. (mathematics) of number, less than zero
  4. (linguistics) denying a proposition
  5. damaging; undesirable; unfavourable
  6. pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.)
  7. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
  8. (chemistry) metalloidal; nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
  9. (New Age) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, unpleasant, difficult, painful; (often precedes 'energy', 'feeling', 'emotion' or 'thought').
  10. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
  11. Synonyms:
      12. rejecting, refusing, contradictory, dissenting, dissentient, contrary, opposing, opposed, denying, anti-, gainsaying, dissentious, in the negative, dissident, heretical, nonconformist, heterodox, unorthodox, unconventional, iconoclastic, maverick, nonorthodox, heretic, disagreeing, rebellious, protesting, discordant, revolutionary, objecting, complaining, rebelling, recusant, contradicting, differing, out-there, non-compliant, schismatic, renegade, sectarian, radical, rebel, separatist, controversial, revisionist, individualistic, eccentric, conflicting, uncanonical, opposition, nonconforming … more
  12. Examples:
      13. “Despite what he felt was a promising interview, Kris received a negative response to his application.”
      “Tom used to have a negative perception of police officers until he was rescued by them.”
      “You will never quit smoking with such a negative attitude.”
negational
  1. Of, pertaining to or involving negation; negatory, negative
negatory
  1. Negative, negating.
negativistic
  1. passive-aggressive
  2. Synonyms:
      3. suspicious, mistrustful, distrustful, disbelieving, unbelieving, doubting, incredulous, sceptical, skeptical, questioning, suspecting, show-me, doubtful, dubious, cynical, leery, unconvinced, wary, chary, apprehensive, trustless, careful, cagey, uncertain, unsure, quizzical, guarded, paranoid, unsettled, undecided, cautious, hinky, lacking trust, mistrusting, jaundiced, not born yesterday, without faith, without belief, distrusting, hesitant, iffy, untrusting, watchful, heedful, on guard, in doubt, aporetic, unsatisfied, suspect, not believing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Furthermore, the plausibility of a negativistic personality orientation with chronic discontentment set in an oppositional and resentful posture may be worth considering.”
      “When this occurs, it usually leads to negativistic expectancies for the future of the relationship.”
      “Structural models revealed that aesthetic, moralistic and negativistic attitudes were the stronger predictors of support.”
negabent
  1. (mathematics) negatively bent
negatable
  1. Capable of being negated.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. undoable, cancellable, reversible, nullifiable, overrideable, revocable, voidable, rescindable
neg
  1. (LGBT, public health) HIV negative
negated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of negate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. helped, avoided, refrained from, stopped, averted, dodged, evaded, prevented, abstained, abstained from, bypassed, circumvented, controlled, deflected, desisted, diverted, ducked, eluded, escaped, forbore, got around, passed up, precluded, resisted, restrained from, shied from, shirked, shook off, shrank from, sidestepped, skipped, skipped out on, skirted, stayed away, stayed away from, steered clear, steered clear of, withstood, broke the habit of, fended off, forbore from, got out of, held off, kept from, neutralised, shunned, warded off, anticipated, arrested, blocked … more
negating
  1. present participle of negate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cancelling, canceling, annulling, nullifying, rescinding, repealing, quashing, abrogating, voiding, abolishing, revoking, reversing, vacating, disannulling, countermanding, retracting, avoiding, dissolving, nulling, overruling, abating, overturning, undoing, killing, obviating, removing, neutralising, neutralizing, annihilating, counteracting, vitiating, dumping, blackballing, counterchecking, redressing, contravening, crossing, dinging, frustrating, impugning, opposing, stonewalling, traversing, striking down, rolling back, rendering invalid, wiping out, cancelling out, canceling out, rendering null and void … more
negatived
  1. simple past tense and past participle of negative
  2. Synonyms:
      3. rejected, turned down, refused, blackballed, downed, killed, nixed, shot down, vetoed, squashed, gave the thumbs down to, given the thumbs down to, gave the red light to, given the red light to, said ‘no’ to, disallowed, abjured, denied, disacknowledged, disapproved, disavowed, dismissed, withheld, withholden, disproved, disproven, proved to be false, showed to be false, shown to be false, gave the lie to, given the lie to, belied, invalidated, called into question, disaffirmed, disclaimed, disconfirmed, disowned, refuted, repudiated, rebutted, discredited, exploded, contradicted … more
negativing
  1. present participle of negative
  2. Synonyms:
      3. rejecting, turning down, refusing, blackballing, downing, killing, nixing, shooting down, vetoing, squashing, giving the thumbs down to, giving the red light to, saying ‘no’ to, disallowing, abjuring, denying, disacknowledging, disapproving, disavowing, dismissing, withholding, disproving, proving to be false, showing to be false, giving the lie to, belying, invalidating, calling into question, disaffirming, disclaiming, disconfirming, disowning, refuting, repudiating, rebutting, discrediting, exploding, contradicting, negating, gainsaying, cancelling out, canceling out, neutralising … more
negged
  1. simple past tense and past participle of neg
negging
  1. present participle of neg
negativized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of negativize
negativizing
  1. present participle of negativize
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