How to overload unary minus operator in C++?

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Yes, but you don’t provide it with a parameter:

class Vector {
   ...
   Vector operator-()  {
     // your code here
   }
};

Note that you should not return *this. The unary – operator needs to create a brand new Vector value, not change the thing it is applied to, so your code may want to look something like this:

class Vector {
   ...
   Vector operator-() const {
      Vector v;
      v.x = -x;
      v.y = -y;
      return v;
   }
};

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