Negativity

Definition

negative /'negǝtÇv/ adj ၁။ (ဤအဘိဓာန္၌ neg ဟု အတိုေကာက္ သံုးသည္။ ) ျငင္းပယ္ေသာ။ ဆန္႔က်င္ေသာ။ a negative sentence/ question/ adverb ❍ give sb a negative answer. Compare AFFIRMATIVE ၂။ (က) အပ်က္သေဘာ ေဆာင္ေသာ။ He has a very negative approach to his work. ❍ She was still critical of the proposals, but not as negative about them as before. (ခ) အႏၲရာယ္ျဖစ္ေစ ေသာ။ eliminate the negative side-effects of a drug. ၃။ (ဓာတ္ခြဲစမ္းသပ္ၾကည့္ရန္) မဟုတ္။ မရိွ။ Her pregnancy test was negative. ၄။ ( mathematics ) သုညေအာက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ အႏုတ္လကၡဏာပါေသာ။ ၅။ (လွ်ပ္စစ္) အမဓာတ္။ the negative terminal of a battery. Compare POSITIVE n ၁။ ျငင္းဆိုျခင္းျပစကား။ ပဋိေသဓပုဒ္။ ‘No’, ‘not’ and ‘neither’ are negatives. ❍ ( fml ) She answered in the negative (ie said ‘no’). ၂။ (ဖလင္) နက္ဂတစ္။ Don't throw the negatives away. negatively adv : react negatively ❍ negatively charged electrons. ❏ negativity n [U] ဆန္႔က်င္ေသာသေဘာထား။ အပ်က္ သေဘာ။

Examples

1. A negative response
2. A negative opinion of her qualifications
3. His answer was negative.
4. The ad campaign actually had a negative impact on sales.
5. I hope the divorce won’t have a negative effect on the children.
6. A negative attitude towards women
7. The article presents a rather negative view of professional sports.
8. Her pregnancy test was negative.
9. She’s remained HIV negative for years.
10. He tested negative for drugs and alcohol.