Definition of Positive

Adjective: positive  pó-zu-tiv

  1. Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
    "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand"
     
  2. Persuaded of; very sure
    "I am positive he is lying";
    - convinced, confident
     
  3. Involving advantage or good
    "a positive factor";
    - plus
     
  4. (medicine) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
    "a positive pregnancy test";
    - confirming
     
  5. Formally laid down or imposed
    "positive laws";
    - prescribed
     
  6. Impossible to deny or disprove
    "proof positive";
    - incontrovertible, irrefutable
     
  7. Of or relating to positivism
    "positive philosophy";
    - positivist, positivistic
     
  8. 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"
     
  9. (mathematics) greater than zero
    "positive numbers"
     
  10. Having a positive charge
    "protons are positive";
    - electropositive, positively charged
     
  11. Marked by excessive confidence
    "the less he knows the more positive he gets";
    - cocksure, overconfident
Noun: positive  pó-zu-tiv
  1. The primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
    - positive degree
     
  2. A film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

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Anagrams containing the word positive

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