Scrabble & Words with friends points
- negative is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
- negative is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
- negative is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 15
Definition of negative
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions (adjective)
Examples
- negative criticism
Synonyms
- damaging
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition (adjective)
Examples
- the HIV test was negative
Synonyms
- disconfirming
- involving disadvantage or harm (adjective)
Examples
- minus (or negative) factors
Synonyms
- minus
- vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent (verb)
Synonyms
- blackball
- veto
- having a negative charge (adjective)
Examples
- electrons are negative
Synonyms
- electronegative
- negatively charged
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed (noun)
- a reply of denial (noun)
Examples
- he answered in the negative
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features (adjective)
Examples
- a negative outlook on life
- a colorless negative personality
- a negative evaluation
- a negative reaction to an advertising campaign
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial (adjective)
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant (adjective)
Examples
- ran a negative campaign
- delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life
- less than zero (adjective)
Examples
- a negative number
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive ()
Examples
- negative interest rates
See definition of negative in Merriam Webster