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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

risposta negativa

Pronunciation / Transliteration: risˈpɔsta neɡaˈtiva

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Negative response/ˈnɛɡ.ə.tɪv rɪˈspɒns/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La sua proposta ha ottenuto una risposta negativa."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A reply or reaction that expresses refusal, disagreement, or a denial of a request or proposition.

    "We received a negative response to our job application after waiting two weeks."
  2. 2

    An adverse or unfavorable feedback signal or measurement in a technical or experimental context.

    "The patient showed a negative response to the new medication."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'negative', derived from the Latin 'negativus' (meaning 'denying'), and 'response', from the Latin 'responsum' (meaning 'an answer'). Together in Late Middle English and Modern English contexts, it describes a reply that expresses refusal, denial, or a counter-statement.

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