Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 9

Negative (a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.

Negative (a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.

Negative (a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.

Negative (a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.

Negative (a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.

Negative (n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.

Negative (n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.

Negative (n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.

Negative (n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.

Negative (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.

Negative (n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

Negatived (imp. & p. p.) of Negative

Negativing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Negative

Negative (v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.

Negative (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.

Negative (v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.

Negatively (adv.) In a negative manner; with or by denial.

Negatively (adv.) In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.

Negativeness (n.) Alt. of Negativity

Negativity (n.) The quality or state of being negative.

Negatory (a.) Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative.

Neginoth (n. pl.) Stringed instruments.

Neglected (imp. & p. p.) of Neglect

Neglecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neglect

Neglect (adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.

Neglect (adv.) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

Neglect (v.) Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.

Neglect (v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

Neglect (v.) Habitual carelessness; negligence.

Neglect (v.) The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.

Neglectedness (n.) The state of being neglected.

Neglecter (n.) One who neglects.

Neglectful (a.) Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent.

Neglectingly (adv.) Carelessly; heedlessly.

Neglection (n.) The state of being negligent; negligence.

Neglective (a.) Neglectful.

Negligee (n.) An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.

Negligence (n.) The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.

Negligence (n.) An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.

Negligence (n.) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.

Negligent (a.) Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order.

Negligently (adv.) In a negligent manner.

Negligible (a.) That may neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration.

Negoce (n.) Business; occupation.

Negotiability (n.) The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.

Negotiable (a.) Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.

Negotiant (n.) A negotiator.

Negotiate (v. i.) To transact business; to carry on trade.

Negotiate (v. i.) To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.

Negotiate (v. i.) To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.

Negotiate (v. i.) To intrigue; to scheme.

Negotiated (imp. & p. p.) of Negotiate

Negotiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Negotiate

Negotiate (v. t.) To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.

Negotiate (v. t.) To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.

Negotiation (n.) The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

Negotiation (n.) Hence, mercantile business; trading.

Negotiation (n.) The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent.

Negotiator (n.) One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts.

Negotiatory (a.) Of or pertaining to negotiation.

Negotiatrix (n.) A woman who negotiates.

Negotiosity (n.) The state of being busy; multitude of business.

Negotious (a.) Very busy; attentive to business; active.

Negotiousness (n.) The state of being busily occupied; activity.

Negresses (pl. ) of Negress

Negress (n.) A black woman; a female negro.

Negrita (n.) A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.

Negritic (a.) Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes.

Negritos (n. pl.) A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.

Negroes (pl. ) of Negro

Negro (n.) A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

Negro (a.) Of or pertaining to negroes; black.

Negroid (a.) Characteristic of the negro.

Negroid (a.) Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.

Negroloid (a.) See Negroid.

Negus (n.) A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.

Nehiloth (n. pl.) A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.

Nehushtan (n.) A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.

Neif (n.) Alt. of Neife

Neife (n.) A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf.

Neif (n.) Alt. of Neaf

Neaf (n.) The fist.

Neighed (imp. & p. p.) of Neigh

Neighing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neigh

Neigh (v. i.) To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.

Neigh (v. i.) To scoff or sneer; to jeer.

Neigh (n.) The cry of a horse; a whinny.

Neighbor (n.) A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.

Neighbor (n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

Neighbor (n.) One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.

Neighbor (a.) Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.

Neighbored (imp. & p. p.) of neighbor

Neighboring (p. pr. & vb. n) of neighbor

neighbor (v. t.) To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to.

neighbor (v. t.) To associate intimately with.

Neighbor (v. i.) To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.

Neighborhood (n.) The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.

Neighborhood (n.) A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

Neighborhood (n.) The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.

Neighborhood (n.) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

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