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Positive

adjective

1.

Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.. "The reviews were all positive" , "A positive benefit" , "A positive demand"

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.

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.

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

... children," every day in the last two years. A gentleman was once accosted by two of these children, whose feet were bare, although the weather was very cold. Seizing each by the arm, he ordered them to put on their shoes and stockings. His manner was so positive that they at once sat down on a door step, and producing their shoes and stockings from beneath their shawls, put them on. Many of these children support drunken or depraved parents by begging, and are soundly beaten by them if they return home at ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... is a positive feedback that constantly worsens the condition. It requires a great deal of careful observation and careful application of the proper educational stimuli to keep the situation from developing toward either extreme. You'll need expert help if you want both boys to display the full abilities ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... of etiquette and a positive unkindness to call upon a friend who is in reduced circumstances with any parade of wealth ...

— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke

... say to him, or to them,' says he, 'when they find you positive against a match which would be apparently ...

— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. • Daniel Defoe

... by inheritance, can be an adequate compensation. Says Maudsley, "I cannot but think that the extreme passion for getting rich, absorbing the whole energies of a life, predisposes to mental degeneracy in the offspring, either to moral defect, or to intellectual deficiency, or to outbursts of positive insanity." And the same author says elsewhere: "The anti-social, egoistic development of the individual predisposes to, if it does not predetermine, the mental degeneracy of his progeny; he, alien from his kind by excessive egoisms, determines an alienation of mind in them. If ...

— Practical Ethics • William DeWitt Hyde

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