Word Meanings - ABNEGATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Denying; renouncing; negative. Clarke.

Related words: (words related to ABNEGATIVE)

• DENY
  1. To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit. Note: We deny what another says, or we deny the truth of an assertion, the force of it, or the assertion itself. 2. To refuse ; to reject; to decline;
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• RENOUNCE
  To disclaim having a card of by playing a card of another suit. To renounce probate , to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W. Syn. -- To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego;
• NEGATIVELY
  1. In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively." Boyle. 2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively. negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by
• RENOUNCEMENT
  The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.
• RENOUNCER
  One who renounces.
• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• DENYINGLY
  In the manner of one denies a request. Tennyson.
• ABNEGATIVE
  Denying; renouncing; negative. Clarke.
• ABRENOUNCE
  To renounce. "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.
• SELF-DENYING
  Refusing to gratify one's self; self-sacrificing. -- Self`-de*ny"ing*ly, adv.
• ELECTRO-NEGATIVE
  Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive,