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Veto vs Negate - What's the difference?

veto | negate |

As verbs the difference between veto and negate

is that veto is to use a veto against while negate is to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.

As a noun veto

is a political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

veto

English

(wikipedia veto)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  • An invocation of that right.
  • An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
  • * George Eliot
  • This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To use a against.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    negate

    English

    Verb

    (negat)
  • To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
  • The investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
  • Progress on the study has been negated by the lack of funds.
  • To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
  • a pessimism that always negates
  • (computing) To perform the NOT operation on.