"double negative" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: double negatives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} double negative (plural double negatives)
  1. (rhetoric, usually derogatory) A phrase including two negative words (no, not, never, etc.) especially when used as intensifiers in informal English. Wikipedia link: A Walk on the Wild Side, double negative Tags: derogatory, rhetoric, usually Categories (topical): Rhetoric, Semantics Related terms: litotes, negative concord, contranym Translations (phrase in which there are two negative words): dvojitý zápor [masculine] (Czech), doppelte Verneinung (German), kettős tagadás (Hungarian), tvöföld neitun [feminine] (Icelandic), duplo negativo [masculine] (Portuguese), negativo duplo [masculine] (Portuguese), dubbelnegation [common-gender] (Swedish), dubbel negation [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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