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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



... Sunderland, and several other collectors, employed themselves during the winter months in rambling through various quarters of the town in search of additions to their libraries, and with some of these collectors the acquisition of books became a positive passion. In 1813 Dr. Dibdin thought that the thermometer of bibliomania had reached its highest point, and it would certainly appear to have been very high indeed, judging from the prices obtained at the Roxburghe and other sales of the time. For some years there ...
— English Book Collectors • William Younger Fletcher
... fond of liberty that they bore the figure of a cat upon their banners. It is well known that the arms of Gruyere are a Grue on a scarlet field, and this circumstance alone has evidently given rise to the anonymous author's conjecture. His opinion not only has no positive proof to support it, but has no color of probability in ...
— The Counts of Gruyere • Mrs. Reginald de Koven
... not usual to call the rich young man a hypocrite. To outward appearance he was in earnest. Negatively, he had kept the commandments. Now he is required to perform positive duties, and to live by faith. Here the mask falls off, and he concludes that eternal life is not ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... ain't the case. I will have to explain to you"—and a positive blush came to his ruddy face. "They won't touch me or my property. They say a man who uses such good horses and such bad language as I do—that's just what they say—is one of them, and sha'n't be racketed. I ain't very proud of my popularity, but I am willing to profit by it and I'll ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... was not so easy to appraise as her unusual costume proclaimed her to be. Jane realized this; country girls are apt to make such mistakes, and even dinner gown tags on school day togs would hardly be proof positive of inferiority, Jane reflected. ...
— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft


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