negativing
- 1Present participle of negative.
The committee responded by negativing each motion the minority brought forward.
Negativing the proposal outright, the council refused even to discuss it.
Note
The -ing form of a verb that shares its spelling with the everyday adjective negative; the final e drops before -ing. It works both as a participle (was negativing the amendment) and as a gerund (negativing it took one vote). The verb is transitive, so an object always follows: a motion, a claim, an effect. Its range runs from vetoing and contradicting to disproving and neutralizing, where it overlaps with negate.
negativing is a form of negative
negative, verb: To refuse or reject something, such as a proposal or a motion. Full entry
- Spelling
- negative → negativing: drop the e, add -ing
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