Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Negative"

A: You should avoid double negatives when writing and speaking. You don’t want any pudding.

A: It means "no" or "opposite", or could also mean that something is bad.

"Can you do it?"
"Negative sir, I don't have eyes on the target." (military use in many cases)

"-5 is negative five."

"The news is negative (bad), I'm afraid."

A: Old cameras made photos where the tones are reversed (so black is white and white is black). We call these negatives. They can be used to make the normal photo.

A: Negative means "bad"

A: In standard English, two negatives mean a mild positive. If something is "not bad," then it's good, but only a little bit good.

A: That is a negative way of thinking.
Don't speak so negatively.
A magnet had a positive and negative charge.
There is a negative answer to the math equation.

A: 1. You're so negative.
2. Tom's blood type is O negative.
3. His reply was negative.
4. Tom replied in the negative.
5. She has a negative attitude toward life.
6. The product of two negative numbers is positive.

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http://www.manythings.org/sentences/words/negative/1.html

A: the balance in his account is negative.
her tone was negative.
he had a negative outlook on life.

A: “He has a very negative outlook on life”
“The test came back negative”
“She didn’t want the negative experience to bring her down”

A: Negative = a number less than zero. Can also mean bad/gloomy. Negative outcome, negative energy, negative person.

Passive = Non-reactive, accepting.
For example the way Gahndi used passive, non-violent protest to win independence for India. Some feel people passively accept the dictates of the CCP, trading free expression for civil order.
Can be used in physical terms to mean not powered like a passive device.
It leads to physiologic terms like passive/aggressive.

A: He is very negative, he complains a lot.
She didn't believe it, I think she is in denial.

A: I can minus 2 from 4 and still have a positive number, 2. If I minus 6 from 4, I get negative 2 or -2. When talking about temperature, for example. They are interchangeable. Negative or minus 10 is really cold and the same temperature.

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A: A negative psychological outcome is a result of something that affects the mind in a bad way. A soldier who returns from war but still panics whenever he hears a loud noise has suffered a negative psychological outcome. It's not a common expression though, so most people would be more specific as to what happened. In the case of the soldier, it would be said that he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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A: this is pretty natural, but I think it sounds better like this (could be just me)

Shockingly, the negatives outweigh the positives.

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Ugh! That’s one of the worst things you can ever hear in English 🤮‼️ It is never acceptable - makes people sound extremely uneducated. How wonderful that you’ve noticed it’s wrong- kudos to you 👏👏👏

A: However there are some negative aspects about tourism. For example you can see many tourists throwing litter, spitting and even writing graffiti on some parts of the Great wall.

A: It's not correct grammar to use double negatives but you'll hear people do it sometimes.
"Ain't nobody got time for that" = "Nobody has time for that."
"I don't know nothing." = "I don't know anything."

An exception that is considered okay is where you have a word with a negative prefix (ex. Uncommon) and a negative in front of it.
"It's not uncommon to see people speeding on the highway."