(emphatic negative)
1negative — an emphatic form of no used for clarity, has been extended since about the 1950s from the language of radio communication into general use: • ‘Any result of my application for the return of my typist?’ ‘Negative,’ said Mr Oates Evelyn Waugh, 1961 …
2negative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. denying (see negation); minus (see deduction). n. negation. See photography. Ant., positive; plus. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Involving a refusal] Syn. denying, negatory, dissentient, disavowing,… …
3double negative — noun 1. an affirmative constructed from two negatives A not unwelcome outcome • Hypernyms: ↑affirmative 2. a grammatically substandard but emphatic negative I don t never go • Hypernyms: ↑negative * * * noun, pl ⋯ tives [count …
4Double negative — This article is about the linguistic construct. For other uses, see Double Negative (disambiguation). A double negative occurs when two forms of negation are used in the same sentence. Multiple negation is the more general term referring to the… …
5never — As a negative adverb, never refers primarily to repeated or continuous non occurrence over a period of time: They never answer letters / It never rained at all last month. It should only be used informally to refer to one occasion, when a simple… …
6Differences between Scottish Gaelic and Irish — Scottish Gaelic is closely related to Irish. Most dialects are not immediately mutually comprehensible[citation needed], though many individual words and phrases are, and speakers of the two languages can rapidly develop mutual intelligibility.… …
7like — I [[t]laɪk, la͟ɪk[/t]] PREPOSITION AND CONJUNCTION USES ♦ likes 1) PREP If you say that one person or thing is like another, you mean that they share some of the same qualities or features. He looks like Father Christmas... Kathy is a great mate …
8Strong Sell — A type of stock trading recommendation given by analysts for a stock that is expected to dramatically underperform compared to the average market return and/or return of comparable stocks in the same sector or industry. It is an emphatic… …
9nother — word formed from misdivision of ANOTHER (Cf. another) as a nother (see N (Cf. N) for other examples), c.1300. From 14c. 16c. no nother is sometimes encountered as a misdivision of none other or perhaps as an emphatic negative; Old English had… …
10wish — /wɪʃ / (say wish) verb (t) 1. to want; desire; long for (often with an infinitive or a clause as object): I wish to see her; I wish that he would come. 2. to desire (a person or thing) to be (as specified): to wish oneself elsewhere. 3. to… …
