ALL meanings of double negative
dou·ble neg·a·tive
D d - noun double negative grammar: use of 2 negatives together 1
- noun double negative a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation. 1
- noun double negative (pejorative, rhetoric) A phrase in which there are two negative words or their compounds (e.g. no, not, never, none, etc), occasionally leading to ambiguity in the meaning, but necessary in some foreign languages. 0
- noun double negative a syntactic construction, often considered ungrammatical in standard Modern English, in which two negatives are used where one is needed, as in I wouldn't never have believed it 0
- noun double negative the use of two negatives in a single statement having a negative force (Ex.: “I didn't hear nothing”) 0