The phrase 'negative meaning' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is interpreted as negative, for example: The word 'curse' carries a negative meaning.
This negative meaning has attached itself to the word because contemporary globalised culture is resolutely anti-parochial.
But there's the negative meaning too: a beginner, someone inexperienced, who would best leave it to the professionals.
For two of the past three years, they have actually been negative, meaning that spending has exceeded income.
But, for the most part, this enthusiastic "no" has very little negative meaning, or really much semantic content at all.
S.&P., which last lowered Delta's rating in March, said Delta's outlook remained negative, meaning yet another downgrading was possible.
BITTER It is not wine writers but history and human nature that give bitterness its biblically negative meaning.
Housing developments being built in Jerusalem are "settlements" in the full and negative meaning of the word — always!
(In Moody's words, "credit negative," meaning that the pay could contribute to a downgrade of the investment bank's debt rating).
When inflation is expected to be negative, meaning that prices are falling, the real interest rate may actually rise.
A crucial capital measure for Anchor is negative, meaning the bailout money is all that is keeping the bank open.
The three-month average has been negative — meaning that the economy is not growing as fast as normal — for 29 consecutive months beginning in May 2006.
