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Double Negative

nounid 46043·updated May 18, 2026
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a grammatically substandard but emphatic negative

polysemousMWE

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Double Negatives
possessive
Double Negative's
pluralpossessive
Double Negatives'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
a grammatically substandard but emphatic negative
§2
an affirmative constructed from two negatives
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
a grammatically substandard but emphatic negative
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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