Negative vs Backwards - What's the difference?
negative | backwards |
not positive or neutral
(physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
(mathematics) of number, less than zero
(linguistics, logic) denying a proposition
damaging; undesirable; unfavourable
pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.)
Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
(chemistry) metalloidal; nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
(New Age jargon) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, unpleasant, difficult, painful; (often precedes 'energy', 'feeling', 'emotion' or 'thought').
* 2009 , Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner , John Wiley & Sons,
* 2011 , Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want , Body, Mind & Spirit, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hf5qEW9n_fsC&pg=PT109&dq=positive+feelings&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MkX-T8PQCo6KmQXjr4GhBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=unwanted%20feelings&f=false]
* 2011 , Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies , Hachette,
refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
(legal) a right of veto
* 1787 , , cited in The Constitutional Convention Of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of America's Founding (2005), Volume 1,
* 1788 , Alexander Hamilton,
* 1983 ,
(photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse
(grammar) a word that indicates negation
(mathematics) a negative quantity
(weightlifting): A rep performed with 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.
To veto
* L. T. Meade, The Palace Beautiful
To contradict
To disprove
* J. H. Riddell, Old Mrs Jones
Oriented toward the back.
Reversed.
(derogatory) Behind current trends or technology.
Clumsy, inept, or inefficient.
Toward the back.
In the opposite direction to usual.
In a manner such that the back precedes the front.
As adjectives the difference between negative and backwards
is that negative is while backwards is oriented toward the back.As an adverb backwards is
toward the back.negative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
- Customers didn't like it: feedback was mostly negative .
- I don't like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.
- The nitro group is negative .
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- Negative' feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy... In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (' negative energy).
- The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages... Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.
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- If you have been badly affected by negative' energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself... Salt attracts ' negative energy and will draw it away from you.
Synonyms
* (damaging) undesirableAntonyms
* positive * (mathematics) nonnegative * (linguistics) affirmativeDerived terms
* negativeness * negativity * negative number * negative integer * negative polarity item * negative repetition * negative Nancy * negative verb * negative zeroNoun
(en noun)- Geoffrey Riddell , a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a negative .
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- And as to the Constitutionality of laws, that point will come before the Judges in their proper official character. In this character they have a negative on the laws.
- The qualified negative' of the President differs widely from this absolute ' negative of the British sovereign; [...]
- In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.
Derived terms
* double negative * internegativeVerb
(negativ)- Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.
- At one time an idea got abroad that the whole tale of her fortune had been a myth; negatived the truth of this statement.
Anagrams
* agentive ----backwards
English
Alternative forms
* backwardAdjective
(en adjective)- The battleship had three backwards guns at the stern, in addition to the primary complement .
- The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror.
- Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice.
- He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.
Usage notes
* In senses 3 and 4, and often in American English, backward is preferred.Synonyms
* (oriented toward the back) * (reversed) mirror image, switched, back to front * (behind current trends or technology) crude, dated, obsolete, primitive * awkward, fumbling, incompetent, poorAdverb
(en adverb)- The cabinet toppled over backwards .
- Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards . —Søren Kierkegaard
- The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards .
- The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors.