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.”

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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.

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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.

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

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Here we have, then, the final statement of his side of the case, made by Judge Holt, through the mouth of counsel, revised and corrected under the stress of the occurrences at the White House and the negatory attitude of the members of the Cabinet present on the spot.

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Related Words

• antithesis 
• renunciation 
• repudiation