negative vs true

negative

adj
  • Not positive nor neutral. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • An unfavorable point or characteristic. 

  • A word that indicates negation. 

  • A negative quantity. 

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

verb
  • To contradict. 

  • To disprove. 

  • To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate. 

  • To refuse; to veto. 

intj
  • No; nay. 

true

adj
  • Fair, unbiased, not loaded. 

  • As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence 

  • Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate. 

  • Genuine; legitimate, valid. 

  • Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation. 

  • based on actual historical events. 

  • Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. 

  • Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false. 

  • Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result. 

  • Loyal, faithful. 

  • Accurate; following a path toward the target. 

verb
  • To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight). 

  • To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. 

adv
  • Accurately. 

noun
  • The state of being in alignment. 

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