electronegative

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: e=lec=tro=neg=a=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

electronegative, a. 

•  Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. Contrasted with neutral and electropositive  [1913 Webster]
•  Negative; nonmetallic; acidic; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.  [1913 Webster]
•  carrying a negative electrical charge.  [PJC]
•  having a tendency to take up electrons and form negative ions; having a relatively positive electrode potential.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

electronegative, adj.
1 electrically negative.
2 Chem. (of an element) tending to acquire electrons.