Positive
[n] a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
[adj] involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor"
[adj] granting what has been desired or requested; "a favorable reply"; "a positive answer"
[adj] marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"
[adj] impossible to deny or disprove; "incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence"; "proof positive"; "an irrefutable argument"
[adj] formally laid down or imposed; "positive laws"
[adj] characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.; "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand"
[adj] (mathematics) greater than zero; "positive numbers"
[adj] (medicine) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen; "a positive pregnancy test"
[adj] having a positive electric charge; "protons are positive"
[adj] of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers"; "positivist doctrine"; "positive philosophy"
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Synonyms
advantageous, affirmative, affirmatory, cocksure, confident, confirming, constructive, electropositive, favorable, formal, incontrovertible, irrefutable, optimistic, overconfident, plus, positivist, positivistic, prescribed, undeniable
Related Terms
absolute, accented, accentuated, accordant, actual, admitting no exception, affirmative, affirmatory, agreeable, agreeing, aidful, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, all-out, answerable, apodictic, arbitrary, arrant, arrogant, assertative, assertional, ass