negative
I
adjective
acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, antipathetical, argumentative, at odds with, attacking, averse, belligerent, bickering, cantankerous, clashing, conflicting, confutative, contentious, contesting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, contravening, converse, counteractive, countering, demurring, denying, disaccordant, disavowing, discordant, disobliging, disputing, dissentient, dissident, factious, fractious, gainsaying, hostile, ill-willed, impugning, incompatible, inimical, inverse, negans, negatory, opposed, opposing, opposite, quarrelsome, rancorous, rebuffing, rebutting, refuting, rejecting, repudiating, repugnant, resistive, reverse, spurning, traversing, unaffirmative, unconverted, unconvinced
associated concepts: negative covenant, negative easement, negative evidence, negative testimony
II
index
challenge, contradict, contrary, disadvantageous, disapprove (reject), disavow, disown (deny the validity), dispute (contest), dissent (withhold assent), negate, opposite, perverse, prohibit, rebut, recusant, refuse, veto, vitiate
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006