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- English Word Nefandous Definition Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable.
- English Word Nefarious Definition Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
- English Word Nefasch Definition Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.
- English Word Nefast Definition Wicked.
- English Word Negation Definition The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation.
- English Word Negation Definition Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.
- English Word Negative Definition Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
- English Word Negative Definition Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
- English Word Negative Definition Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
- English Word Negative Definition Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
- English Word Negative Definition Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.
- English Word Negative Definition A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
- English Word Negative Definition A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.
- English Word Negative Definition The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.
- English Word Negative Definition That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
- English Word Negative Definition A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.
- English Word Negative Definition The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- English Word Negative Definition To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.
- English Word Negative Definition To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
- English Word Negative Definition To neutralize the force of; to counteract.