counterbalance vs negative

counterbalance

noun
  • A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one. 

  • A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance. 

verb
  • To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight. 

  • To match or equal in effect when applying opposing force 

negative

noun
  • An unfavorable point or characteristic. 

  • Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto 

  • A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement. 

  • The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. 

  • A right of veto. 

  • A word that indicates negation. 

  • A negative quantity. 

  • An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. 

adj
  • Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted. 

  • Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis. 

  • Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit. 

  • Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable. 

  • Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed. 

  • Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles 

  • Denying a proposition. 

  • Not positive nor neutral. 

  • HIV negative. 

  • COVID-19 negative. 

  • Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. 

  • Of a number: less than zero 

  • Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic. 

intj
  • No; nay. 

verb
  • To contradict. 

  • To disprove. 

  • To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate. 

  • To refuse; to veto. 

How often have the words counterbalance and negative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )