in the negative
She answered the question in the negative.

original
enlarged
photographic
film, glass

strip

produce
develop, print
His interest in photography started with him developing negatives that he found lying around the house.

scan
Pictures and negatives were scanned using a flatbed scanner.

keep
We must assume that the spy kept the negatives.

destroy

be, feel, seem, sound
become
remain

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
decidedly, highly, profoundly, significantly (esp. AmE), strongly
Their attitude was highly negative.
the strongly negative implications of these survey results

completely, entirely, purely, totally, wholly
She spoke in entirely negative terms.

largely, overwhelmingly, predominantly
increasingly
overly
Some people have accused me of being overly negative.

uniformly
Reaction to last night's attack was uniformly negative.

a little, slightly, etc.
apparently, seemingly
essentially
Critical thinking is essentially negative as it seeks to dissect and not to build.

potentially
generally

about
He's been rather negative about the idea.

falsely

be, prove, test
The antibody test proved negative.
He tested negative for HIV infection.

for
The urine tests were negative for protein.

Negative is used with these nouns:
answer, aspect, association, attitude, balance, comment, connotation, consequence, correlation, coverage, criticism, effect, emotion, energy, evaluation, expectation, experience, fashion, feedback, feeling, force, image, imagery, impact, implication, impression, influence, margin, message, mood, number, outcome, outlook, overtone, perception, portrayal, publicity, quality, reaction, reinforcement, relationship, repercussion, reply, report, reputation, resolution, response, result, return, review, sense, sentence, side, side effect, slant, slope, smear, spin, stance, stereotype, stimulus, symptom, tactic, term, test, thing, thought, tone, trait, trend, view, voltage, vote