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Positive   /pˈɑzətɪv/   Listen
Positive

adjective
1.
Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc..  "The reviews were all positive" , "A positive benefit" , "A positive demand"  Antonyms: negative, neutral.
2.
Persuaded of; very sure.  Synonyms: confident, convinced.  "I am positive he is lying" , "Was confident he would win"
3.
Involving advantage or good.  Synonym: plus.
4.
Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen.  Synonym: confirming.  Antonym: negative.
5.
Formally laid down or imposed.  Synonym: prescribed.
6.
Impossible to deny or disprove.  Synonyms: incontrovertible, irrefutable.  "Proof positive" , "An irrefutable argument"
7.
Of or relating to positivism.  Synonyms: positivist, positivistic.  "Positivist doctrine" , "Positive philosophy"
8.
Reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion.  Antonym: negative.
9.
Greater than zero.
10.
Having a positive charge.  Synonyms: electropositive, positively charged.
11.
Marked by excessive confidence.  Synonyms: cocksure, overconfident.  "So overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen" , "The less he knows the more positive he gets"
noun
1.
The primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution.  Synonym: positive degree.
2.
A film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject.



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"Positive" Quotes from Famous Books



... and everything that belongs to it, that the more I have to do with it, the better I like it, and I really begrudge the time that I spend in the city. You do not know with what pleasure I look forward to helping Miriam get breakfast to-morrow morning. I consider it a positive lark. By the way, Mr. Haverley, do ...
— The Girl at Cobhurst • Frank Richard Stockton
... aloof. It was perfectly clear to Sara, that with Armitage, strong and clever in a wholesome masculine way, Anne was the light-hearted, mischievous, pure-minded girl—his ideal of American young womanhood. But now she caught the other note of her character—an untrue note, but none the less positive—and the other look in her eyes. Her voice was deeper, more womanly, more surcharged with underlying things, as she spoke to the Russian, and Sara could see ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry
... outward harmony there was something at once more intangible and yet more vital and positive that made the man a piece with the natural world about him. Perhaps it was that he had lived so many months of so many years in the open that he had grown to be true brother of the wild; that he had shed coat after coat of artificial veneer as he took on the layers of tan; that in ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... both were fair. Dora had long sleek curls that never got out of order. Davy had a crop of fuzzy little yellow ringlets all over his round head. Dora's hazel eyes were gentle and mild; Davy's were as roguish and dancing as an elf's. Dora's nose was straight, Davy's a positive snub; Dora had a "prunes and prisms" mouth, Davy's was all smiles; and besides, he had a dimple in one cheek and none in the other, which gave him a dear, comical, lopsided look when he laughed. Mirth and mischief lurked in every ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... increase and with the growth of the city. But almost from the beginning, probably the environing white group has segregated the Negroes into separate neighborhoods. The figures available for Brooklyn do not permit a positive inference, but in Manhattan, while the areas populated by Negroes have shifted somewhat from decade to decade, there have been distinctively ...
— The Negro at Work in New York City - A Study in Economic Progress • George Edmund Haynes


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