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say it: ni-GAYT
negate is a verb meaning "be in contradiction with". It is pronounced /nɪˈɡeɪt/ — ni-GAYT. It carries 4 recorded senses.
be in contradiction with
deny the truth of
prove negative; show to be false
logic
make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
“Her optimism neutralizes his gloom”
“This action will negate the effect of my efforts”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for negate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.