negatory

[ neg-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

1. marked by negation; denying; negative.

Word History and Origins

Origin of negatory¹

From the Late Latin word negātōrius, dating back to 1570–80. See negate, -tory ¹

Example Sentences

And its politics are not just negatory — they also aim to adapt “preexisting socialist, anarchist, and communist currents to a sudden need to react to the fascist menace.”

From Washington Post

I say unlikely because the word out of Minecraft-maker Mojang back in March 2013 was negatory on a Nintendo-fied iteration of the uber-popular block-builder.

From Time

Negatory, says Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith, and it’s all Obama’s fault: “The Speaker never said immigration reform was at the top of our agenda, or that he’d ‘take up’ immigration reform anytime soon,” Smith writes in an email to U.S.

From US News

Only one thing grieved me by anticipation; the sorrow of my Berga, for whom, dear tired wayfarer, I on the morrow must overcloud her arrival, and her shortened market-spectacle, by my negatory intelligence.

From Project Gutenberg

Dane made a negatory gesture, but Ormond anticipated his answer.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• antithesis
• renunciation
• repudiation