Approve and Negative

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Approve

Approve verb - To give official acceptance of as satisfactory.
Usage example: as soon as the pond project was approved, the bulldozers were at the site
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Negative is an antonym for approve.
Nearby Words: approval, approbation, approving, approvingly, approvement

Negative

Negative verb - To reject by or as if by a vote.
Usage example: we promptly negatived the idea of having pizza again for dinner, noting that we had already had it for three nights that week
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Approve is an antonym for negative.
Nearby Words: negate, negatived, negation, negated, negativism
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  • Creator / Stan Lee Hoist by His Own Petard: Inverted — he caused this with an anti-drug comic (commissioned by the US Government) that The Comics Code Authority refused to approve due to arcane language that did not permit any portrayal of drugs, whether positive or negative.
    Source: Creator / Stan Lee
  • Literature / Tortall Universe aka: Tortall Kel's books say that commoners don't hold with all this nonsense and sleep with whomever they like... but the endless, endless negative terminology thrown at Kel suggests that the commoners don't approve of women sleeping around either!
    Source: Literature / Tortall Universe aka: Tortall
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