Negative
Negative verb - To be unwilling to grant.
Usage example: ultimately, we negatived the request for a personal loan
Warrant
Warrant verb - To give official acceptance of as satisfactory.
Usage example: the state constitution warrants these measures
How words are described
| big | big negative | big warrant |
Common collocations
| article | negative article | warrant article |
Both words in one sentence
- The negative reception of the show was also enough to put Torchwood as a whole on hiatus, and its future remains uncertain as of 2016 (it can't have a Fully Absorbed Finale in Doctor Who, especially after all this time, but it's not popular enough to warrant closure on its own).
Source: Genre-Killer - Averted by EGMat the beginning and end of the columns lifespan, Seanbabys Rest of the Crap was for games that would warrant zeroes and negative scores on the normal rating scale used by the other reviewers.
Source: Broke the Rating Scale
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Warrant and Negative. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/negative/warrant
Negative & Warrant. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/negative/warrant>.
Warrant or Negative. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/negative/warrant.
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