[
  {
    "word": "negative",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8n\u025b(e)\u0261\u0259\u02cc\u027e\u026av/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8n\u025b(e)\u0261\u0259\u02cc\u027e\u026av/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8n\u025b\u0261\u0259t\u026av/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/-\u027e\u026av/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/negative-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=694273",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A right of veto.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(grammar) A word that indicates negation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A negative quantity.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": ": 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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To refuse; to veto.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To contradict.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To disprove.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To make ineffective; to neutralize.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Not positive nor neutral.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of a number: less than zero",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [
              "nonnegative"
            ]
          },
          {
            "definition": "Denying a proposition.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [
              "affirmative"
            ]
          },
          {
            "definition": "Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Customers didn\u2019t like it: feedback was mostly negative."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I don\u2019t like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The nitro group is negative."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(New Age jargon) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "HIV negative",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "undesirable"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "affirmative",
          "nonnegative",
          "positive"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "interjection",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "(signalling) An elaborate synonym for no.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/negative"
    ]
  }
]