POSITIVER Antonyms

• offering little or no hope

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

• someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

• of a person unable to do something skillfully

• certain to fail

• (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

• characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

• expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

• not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

• reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

• a reply of denial

• a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

• having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

• less than zero

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• having a negative charge

• involving disadvantage or harm

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• expecting the worst possible outcome

• not encouraging or approving or pleasing

• (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose

• involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness