adjective. Characterized by or displaying certainty, acceptance, or affirmation.

adjective. Measured or moving forward or in a direction of increase or progress.

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adjective. Desirable, admirable, or beneficial.

adjective. Optimistic or constructive.

adjective. Not disparaging or malicious.

adjective. Very confident; certain: synonym: sure.

adjective. Explicitly or openly expressed or laid down.

adjective. Admitting of no doubt; irrefutable.

adjective. Concerned with practical rather than theoretical matters.

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adjective. Of or relating to positivism.

adjective. Of or relating to positive law.

adjective. Of or relating to religion based on revelation rather than on nature or reason alone.

adjective. Utter; absolute.

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adjective. Relating to or designating a quantity greater than zero.

adjective. Relating to or designating the sign (+).

adjective. Relating to or designating a quantity, number, angle, or direction opposite to another designated as negative.

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adjective. Relating to or designating an electric charge of a sign opposite to that of an electron.

adjective. Of or relating to a body having fewer electrons than protons.

adjective. Of or relating to an ion, the cation, that is attracted to a negative electrode.

adjective. Indicating the presence of a particular disease, condition, or organism.

adjective. Indicating or characterized by response or motion toward the source of a stimulus, such as light.

adjective. Having the areas of light and dark in their original and normal relationship, as in a photographic print made from a negative.

adjective. Of, relating to, or being the simple uncompared degree of an adjective or adverb, as opposed to either the comparative or superlative.

adjective. Driven by or generating power directly through intermediate machine parts having little or no play.

noun. An affirmative element or characteristic.

noun. A quantity greater than zero.

noun. A positive electric charge.

noun. A photographic image in which the lights and darks appear as they do in nature.

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noun. The uncompared degree of an adjective or adverb.

noun. A word in this degree.

noun. A division of some pipe organs, similar in sound to the great but smaller and less powerful.

Specifically, noting an oiling or lubricating device in which the oil is made to flow by pressure, due either to gravity or to pumping.

Laid down as a proposition; affirmed; stated; express: as, a positive declaration.

Of an affirmative nature; possessing definite characters of its own; of a kind to excite sensation or be otherwise directly experienced; not negative. Thus, light is positive, darkness negative; man is positive, nonman negative.

Arbitrarily laid down; determined by declaration, enactment, or convention, and not by nature: opposed to natural.

Imperative; laid down as a command to be followed without question or discretion: as, positive orders.

Unquestionable; indubitable; certain; hence, experiential.

Confident; fully assured.

Over-confident in opinion and assertion; dogmatic.

Actually or really officiating or discharging the duties of an office.

Not reversed.

Not comparative.

noun. That which settles by absolute appointment.

noun. That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.

noun. In grammar, the positive degree.

"A smart publisher IMO is one that knows that any talk about a book is a positive thing, and that an honest review site is a site from which an honest *positive* review is worth having, too."

nonpositive  uncertain  unsure  

alabastrine positive  bronze positive  positive allegation  positive attribute  positive colors  

Gram-positive  advantageous  affirmative  certain  charged  

adjective  adverb  film  photographic film  

causative  dispositive  

Gaye  absolute  actual  certain  comparative  

Ditto copy  Photostat  Xerox  Xerox copy  absolute