Keep
Negative
Negative verb - To be unwilling to grant.
Usage example: ultimately, we negatived the request for a personal loan
How words are described
| clear | clear keep | clear negative |
| complete | complete keep | complete negative |
| original | original keep | original negative |
| single | single keep | single negative |
| Other adjectives: big, dangerous, major. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Keep in mind that Absolute Zero is the lowest you can go, and while there is such thing as negative kelvin in Real Life, it would have been hotter than anything else.
Source: Film / The Chronicles of Riddick - Thus, helping people with negative mental balance climbing back up to zero is actually doing them a disfavor, unless you can keep pushing them upwards to high levels of positive mental balance.
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She refuses his offer, so instead, she made a deal with the friend—who turns out to be a vampire, as she needed RH AB-Negative blood of young girls to keep her face from rotting once a month.
Source: AB Negative
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Negative and Keep. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/negative
Keep & Negative. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/negative>.
Negative or Keep. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/negative.
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