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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



... have seen many of my countrymen in Parisian drawing-rooms, in the midst of Frenchmen, Russians, Princes of various lands; and, do you know, I have not seen anything much better in the way of bearing, manners, and mental culture and natural refinement than the English gentleman. I feel quite positive that it is not he who has lowered the manners or morals of Napoleon the Third's subjects. I am bold enough to think that a probationary tour through some of our London drawing-rooms would do good to the saucy young ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... which I had been deprived on entering the institution. I knew that my young friend and benefactor was deep in the darksome intricacies of prison politics, and was just then getting rather the worst of it; but I was unable to give him any positive assurance that my influence with the Department, or elsewhere, would suffice to give ...
— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne
... and Madame Gilliard set herself to waken the boy, who had come far that day, and was peevish and dazzled by the light. He was no sooner awake than he began to prepare himself for supper by eating galette, unripe pears, and cold potatoes—with, so far as I could judge, positive benefit to his appetite. ...
— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson
... factors that enter into the causes of war. They represent some of the reasons why men like to fight, for it is difficult not to believe that if no one wanted to fight war would be possible at all. They too represent the darker side of the picture. War as already indicated offers, on the positive side, the greatest opportunities for the altruistic tendencies; it offers the most glorious occasion for service and returns for such acts the greatest possible premium in social esteem. But it seems to me that the causes of war lie ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... the road and to draw what I saw before me, which was the tender stream of the Moselle slipping through fields quite flat and even and undivided by fences; its banks had here a strange effect of Nature copying man's art: they seemed a park, and the river wound through it full of the positive innocence that attaches to virgins: it nourished and was guarded ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc


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