positive

Meanings

Plural: positives

Noun

• the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
• a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
• A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
• A favourable point or characteristic.
• Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
• A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
• An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
• A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
• The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• A positive result of a test.

Adjective

• characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
  • "a positive attitude"
  • "the reviews were all positive"
  • "a positive benefit"
  • "a positive demand"
• indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
  • "a positive pregnancy test"
• of or relating to positivism
  • "positive philosophy"
• reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
  • "positive increase in graduating students"

Adjective Satellite

• persuaded of; very sure
  • "I am positive he is lying"
• involving advantage or good
  • "a plus (or positive) factor"
• formally laid down or imposed
  • "positive laws"
• impossible to deny or disprove
  • "proof positive"
• greater than zero
  • "positive numbers"
• having a positive charge
  • "protons are positive"
• marked by excessive confidence
  • "the less he knows the more positive he gets"

Adj

• Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
• Formally laid down.
• Stated definitively and without qualification.
• Fully assured in opinion.
• Of number, greater than zero.
• Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
• Overconfident, dogmatic.
• Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
• Having more protons than electrons.
• Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
• Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
• Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
• Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
• Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
• Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
• Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
• Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
• Optimistic.
• electropositive
• basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
• HIV positive.
• Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
• downright, confirmed, straight-up.

Synonyms

absolute, acceptable, agreeable, all right, as fine as Dick's hatband, awesome, bene, bodacious, bona, certain, cocksure, commendable, confident, confirming, convinced, dandy as candy, decent, electropositive, enjoyable, excellent, exceptional, fantastic, fine, goloptious, good, good as wheat in the bin, gratifying, great, incontrovertible, irrefutable, magnificent, marvelous, nice, not bad, outstanding, overconfident, perfect, phenomenal, pleasant, pleasing, plus, positive, positive degree, positively charged, positivist, positivistic, prescribed, rad, radical, right as rain, satisfying, splendid, stellar, stupendous, super, superb, sure, sweet as a nut, terrific, tubular, wis, wonderful, wondrous

Antonyms

bad, excellent, good, great, negative, neutral, nonpositive, positive, superior, uncertain, unsure

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