Clues for the word "NEGATIVE"
We've had 29 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 35 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on November 17, 2025.
Definition of 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.
- 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.
- a. - Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
- 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.
- a. - Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is 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.
- n. - A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.
- n. - The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.
- 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.
- 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.
- n. - The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- v. t. - To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.
- v. t. - To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
- v. t. - To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
Referring Clues
- Like some campaign ads
- Below zero
- Like certain battery terminals
- One of two signs in this puzzle
- Charge on an electron
- Type of charge
- With 10-Down, critical comments
- Indigenous
- No
- Opposite of positive
- Contradictory
- Far from optimistic
- Prohibitory
- No tea given out
- Darkroom item
- Less than zero
- Opposite of affirmative
- Minus
- Pessimistic
- Less than nothing, for example, found in an oyster
- No all-round musical knowledge
- Denial
- 1,000 in the phrase "No, no a thousand times no!" is an example of a ___ number
- Piece of photographic film
- U-turn from positive
- Contrary
- Meaning of "-" on a battery terminal
- Downside
- Like a number less than zero
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - November 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 28, 2025
- Family Time - December 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 09, 2023
- New York Times - September 15, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2018
- Daily Cryptic - September 16, 2017
- Mirror Daily - April 28, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2017
- Guardian Quick - June 07, 2016
- Mirror Daily - April 28, 2016
- Guardian Quick - August 05, 2015
- New York Times - July 20, 2014
- New York Times - October 24, 2013
- Universal - June 07, 2013
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 02, 2012
- Chronicle of Higher Education - November 04, 2011
- Guardian Quick - June 22, 2011
- Family Time - October 25, 2010
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - September 20, 2010
- USA Today - June 21, 2010
- Washington Post - January 05, 2009
- New York Times - December 28, 2008
- USA Today - January 07, 2008
- Guardian Quick - August 01, 2007
- And in 5 more crossword puzzles...