negative: translation
•Roman•
I.•/Roman•
noun
1 denial
PHRASES
▪ in the negative
▪ She answered the question in the negative.
2 developed photographic film
ADJECTIVE
▪ original
▪ enlarged
▪ photographic
▪ film, glass
… OF NEGATIVES
▪ strip
VERB + NEGATIVE
▪ produce
▪ develop, print
▪ His interest in photography started with him developing negatives that he found lying around the house.
▪ scan
▪ Pictures and negatives were scanned using a flatbed scanner.
▪ keep
▪ We must assume that the spy kept the negatives.
▪ destroy
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
adj.
1 only thinking about/showing sb/sth's bad qualities
VERBS
▪ be, feel, seem, sound
▪ become
▪ remain
ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ decidedly, highly, profoundly, significantly (esp.AmE), strongly
▪ Their attitude was highly negative.
▪ the strongly negative implications of these survey results
▪ completely, entirely, purely, totally, wholly
▪ She spoke in entirely negative terms.
▪ largely, overwhelmingly, predominantly
▪ increasingly
▪ overly
▪ Some people have accused me of being overly negative.
▪ uniformly
▪ Reaction to last night's attack was uniformly negative.
▪ a little, slightly, etc.
▪ apparently, seemingly
▪ essentially
▪ Critical thinking is essentially negative as it seeks to dissect and not to build.
▪ potentially
▪ generally
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪ He's been rather negative about the idea.
2 showing that sth has not happened/been found
ADVERB
▪ falsely
VERBS
▪ be, prove, test
▪ The antibody test proved negative.
▪ He tested negative for HIV infection.
PREPOSITION
▪ for
▪ The urine tests were negative for protein.
Negative is used with these nouns: ↑answer, ↑aspect, ↑association, ↑attitude, ↑balance, ↑comment, ↑connotation, ↑consequence, ↑correlation, ↑coverage, ↑criticism, ↑effect, ↑emotion, ↑energy, ↑evaluation, ↑expectation, ↑experience, ↑fashion, ↑feedback, ↑feeling, ↑force, ↑image, ↑imagery, ↑impact, ↑implication, ↑impression, ↑influence, ↑margin, ↑message, ↑mood, ↑number, ↑outcome, ↑outlook, ↑overtone, ↑perception, ↑portrayal, ↑publicity, ↑quality, ↑reaction, ↑reinforcement, ↑relationship, ↑repercussion, ↑reply, ↑report, ↑reputation, ↑resolution, ↑response, ↑result, ↑return, ↑review, ↑sense, ↑sentence, ↑side, ↑side effect, ↑slant, ↑slope, ↑smear, ↑spin, ↑stance, ↑stereotype, ↑stimulus, ↑symptom, ↑tactic, ↑term, ↑test, ↑thing, ↑thought, ↑tone, ↑trait, ↑trend, ↑view, ↑voltage, ↑vote