negate
- to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- to nullify or cause to be ineffective: Progress on the study has been negated by the lack of funds.
Origin of negate
Related Words for negate
invalidate, reverse, neutralize, void, undo, disallow, nullify, belie, vitiate, disprove, rebut, annihilate, ding, traverse, revoke, dump, blackball, negative, controvert, redressExamples from the Web for negate
Contemporary Examples of negate
Gelman quietly answered “no,” and that seemed to negate his hearsay point.
Just because two goods or two rights are in tension, it does not mean that one should negate the other.
Almost as if to negate the inevitable White House walk-back that his statement was “taken out of context,” Biden dug in his heels.
That's not to negate the fact that we hope that the destination will be satisfying.
Historical Examples of negate
Sensitiveness, Culture, seemed to negate spontaneity of action.
Colorado JimGeorge Goodchild
The idea of wholeness does not negate an appreciation of the complexity of being.
Nursing as CaringAnne Boykin
We could negate the efforts of any echelon below the Eddorians themselves, it is true.
TriplanetaryEdward Elmer Smith
The Anarchistic teachings have in common only this, that they negate the State for our future.
AnarchismPaul Eltzbacher
A part of them negate law for our future; these teachings may be called anomistic.
AnarchismPaul Eltzbacher
negate
- to make ineffective or void; nullify; invalidate
- to deny or contradict
Word Origin for negate
Word Origin and History for negate
1795 (with an isolated use from 1620s), back-formation from negation, or else from Latin negatus, past participle of negare. Related: Negated; negates; negating.