- Negative - Not any; not one; none. - Nay; not; not at all; not in any respect or degree; -- a word
expressing negation, denial, or refusal. Before or after another
negative, no is emphatic. - A refusal by use of the wordd no; a denial. - A negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for
the ayes and noes; the noes have it.