Negative vs Dissent - What's the difference?
negative | dissent |
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
To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from'' (or, formerly, ''to ).
* 1827 Thomas Jarman, Powell's Essay on Devises 2.293:
* 1830 Isaac D'Israeli, Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First 3.9.207:
To differ from , especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
* 1654 John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon the Book of Job 33.32:
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
* 1871 George Grote, Fragments on Ethical Subjects 2.37:
(obsolete) To be different; to have contrary characteristics.
Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.
An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority.
(Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case
(sports)
* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, "
As an adjective negative
is .As a verb dissent is
to disagree; to withhold assent construed with from'' (or, formerly, ''to ).As a noun dissent is
disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc of a political party, government or religion.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 .
p. 15
- 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.
p. 118
- 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 ----dissent
English
Verb
(en verb)- Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent , the Court will itself exercise his authority.
- Those who openly dissented from the acts which the King had carried through the Parliament.
- Some are so eristical and teasty, that they will not ... bear with any that dissent .
- Natural reason dictates, that motion ought to be assigned to the bodies, which in kind and essence most agree with those bodies which do undoubtedly move, and rest to those which most dissent from them.
- If the public dissent from our views, we say that they ought to concur with us.
- (Hooker)
Antonyms
* (disagree) agree, assent, follow, allow, acceptReferences
*Noun
(en noun)Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent , and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.