word-vault/dist/data/cards/ne/negative.json

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{
    "term": "negative",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "bad or harmful",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The crisis had a **negative effect on** trade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Government cuts will have a **negative impact on** public services."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole experience was definitely more positive than negative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Few patients reported any lasting negative consequences."
                },
                {
                    "text": "On the negative side, the labour market is still weak."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the strongly negative implications of these survey results"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Negative side effects of the drug can occur and include drowsiness and headaches."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "containing a word such as ‘no’, ‘not’, ‘never’, etc.",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a negative form/sentence"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Language"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "expressing the answer ‘no’",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His response was negative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They received a negative reply."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "considering only the bad side of something/somebody; having no enthusiasm or hope",
            "sensetop": "negative about somethingnegative in something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Scientists have a fairly **negative attitude** to the theory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The developers' proposal received **negative feedback** from neighbours."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘He probably won't show up.’ ‘Don't be so negative.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's been rather negative about the idea.",
                    "contextForm": "negative about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was too negative in his thinking.",
                    "contextForm": "negative in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The response from the critics was overwhelmingly negative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't have many negative comments to make about the movie."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Reaction to last night's attack was uniformly negative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spoke in entirely negative terms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some people have accused me of being overly negative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their attitude was highly negative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't want to sound unduly negative, but I simply couldn't see the point."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We try to pinpoint the cause of any negative feelings."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "not showing any evidence of a particular substance or medical condition",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her pregnancy test was negative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Negative results are not a guarantee of a safe water supply."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **tested negative for** HIV infection."
                },
                {
                    "text": "90 out of 100 patients with a negative result will not have the disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The antibody test proved negative."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The urine tests were negative for protein."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["falsely"],
                "verbs": ["be", "prove", "test"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "containing or producing the type of electricity that is carried by an electron",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a negative charge/current"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the negative terminal of a battery"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "less than zero",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a negative trade balance"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The industry suffered negative growth *(= a decline)* throughout the decade."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "showing light and shade, or colours, in the opposite way to the original",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In a negative image of the photograph, dark is light and right is left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look at a bright light and look away, and you see the negative image of it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The artist creates an interplay of positive and negative space in acrylic."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈneɡətɪv/",
                "audio": "ne/negative/negative__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈneɡətɪv/",
                "audio": "ne/negative/negative__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from late Latin negativus, from negare ‘deny’."
}