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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



... lived had a positive action upon Godefroid. The laws which regulate the physical nature under relation to the atmospheric environment in which it is developed, rule also in the moral nature. Hence it follows that the assembling together of condemned prisoners is one of the greatest of social ...
— The Brotherhood of Consolation • Honore de Balzac
... swelling with hatred and revenge, he formed the idea of another association, which was to consist of men resolved to overthrow the confederation of the Rhine, and to drive the French entirely out of Germany. This society, whose object was more real and positive than that of the first, soon swallowed up the other; and from these two was formed that of the Tugendbund, ...
— History of the Expedition to Russia - Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 • Count Philip de Segur
... said Caesar, speaking of the Germans. Pillage brings no shame. This desire of gain, this positive and realistic tendency is one of the motives which the brusque and prodigious economic expansion of Germany has promoted in the most ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... in this country," said Sir Brian Newcome, crushing his egg-shell desperately, "is dreadful, really dreadful. We are on the edge of a positive volcano." Down went the egg-spoon into its crater. "The worst sentiments are everywhere publicly advocated; the licentiousness of the press has reached a pinnacle which menaces us with ruin; there is no law which these shameless newspapers respect; no rank which is safe from their ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... and party feeling, eventually loses its original spirit, and sinks into a mere lifeless mechanism, worked with a view to private ends—a mechanism which not merely fails of its first purpose, but is a positive hindrance ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer


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