| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abnegation | (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
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| (noun) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief | - |
| abnegator | (noun) one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electronegativity | (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: negativity |
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| negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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| (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
| negation | (noun) the speech act of negating | - |
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| (noun) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false | - |
| negative | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
| (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
| (adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
| (adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
| (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
| (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
| (adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
| (adjective) less than zero | - |
| (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
| negatively | (adverb) in a negative way | - |
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| (adverb) in a harmful manner | - |
| negativeness | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativism, negativity |
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| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativity |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativity |
| negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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| negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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| (noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
| negativity | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativism |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: electronegativity |
| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativeness |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativeness |
| negatron | (noun) an elementary particle with negative charge | Synonyms: electron |
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| nonnegative | (adjective) either positive or zero | - |
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| renegade | (adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: recreant |
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| (noun) someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw | - |
| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, recreant, turncoat |
| (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: rebel |
| senega | (noun) perennial bushy herb of central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest; similar to Seneca snakeroot | Synonyms: Polygala alba |
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| (noun) dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin | - |
| vinegar | (noun) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative | Synonyms: acetum |
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| (noun) dilute acetic acid | - |
| vinegariness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegarishness |
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| vinegarish | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegary |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegary |
| vinegarishness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegariness |
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| vinegarroon | (noun) large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed | Synonyms: Mastigoproctus giganteus |
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| vinegarweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: camphorweed, Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed |
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| vinegary | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegarish |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegarish |