Usually means: Two negatives implying a positive.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. double negative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. double negative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double negative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. double negative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. double negative: Vocabulary.com
  6. double-negative: Wordnik
  7. double negative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. double negative: Wiktionary
  9. double negative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. double negative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. double negative: Dictionary.com
  12. Double Negative (VFX), Double Negative (album), Double Negative (artwork), Double Negative (band), Double Negative (disambiguation), Double Negative, Double negative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. double negative: Rhymezone
  14. double negative: Free Dictionary
  15. double negative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. double negative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double negative: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See double_negatives as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (double negative)

noun:  (rhetoric, usually derogatory) A phrase including two negative words (no, not, never, etc.) especially when used as intensifiers in informal English.

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