Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seronegative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: seroneg-a-tive
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Testing negative for a given pathogen, especially HIV. (of blood serum)

adj

Having seronegative blood serum. (of a person or animal)

noun

Such a serum of person

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser- Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der. Proto-Italic *serom Latin serumder. English serum English sero- English negative English seronegative From sero- + negative.

Inflected Forms

seronegatives (plural)

Derived Forms

seronegativity seronegativization

Antonyms

seropositive

Questions

What does seronegative mean?: Testing negative for a given pathogen, especially HIV. (of blood serum)
Where does seronegative come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser- Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der. Proto-Italic *serom Latin serumder. English serum English sero- English negative English seronegative From sero- + negative.

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