Marin Independent Journal: Marin Voice: Negative body images play role in adolescent eating disorders The meaning of NEGATIVE is marked by denial, prohibition, or refusal; also : marked by absence, withholding, or removal of something positive. How to use negative in a sentence. Indicating opposition or resistance: a negative reaction to the new advertising campaign.
2. Lacking positive or constructive features, especially: a. Unpleasant; disagreeable: had a negative experience on his first job. b.
negative effects of bulimia, Gloomy; pessimistic: a negative outlook. A fact, situation, or experience that is negative is unpleasant, depressing, or harmful. The news from overseas is overwhelmingly negative. All this had an extremely negative effect on the criminal justice system. This will negatively affect the result over the first half of the year.
negative effects of bulimia, Adjective negative (comparative more negative, superlative most negative) Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable. lacking positive attributes (opposed to positive): a dull, lifeless, negative character. lacking in constructiveness, helpfulness, optimism, cooperativeness, or the like: a man of negative viewpoint. There are 23 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun negative, nine of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
