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positive
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[ adjective ] characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
Examples "a positive attitude" "the reviews were all positive" "a positive benefit" "a positive demand" Used in print ("Editorials"...)What is interesting is that his positive qualifications for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to his candidacy . (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)The concept of unity , in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force , in which good and evil are relative , ever-changing , and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical_sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Modern man , as Dietrich_Bonhoeffer has told us , has `` come_of_age '' ; and though this process by_no_means represents an unambiguous gain and is , in_fact , marked by the estrangement from the depths that seems to be the cost of human maturation , it is still a positive step forward ; and those of us who so richly benefit from it should be the last to despise it . (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)Two of the fluids showed a high positive normal pressure when undergoing shear , and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in_comparison_with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two . Two of the fluids showed a high positive normal pressure when undergoing shear , and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in_comparison_with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two . |
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[ adjective ] involving advantage or good
Synonyms Examples "a plus (or positive) factor" Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)Debate rid us of McCarthy but did not give us much that is positive . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (medicine) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
Synonyms Examples "a positive pregnancy test" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)In 1952 , it will be remembered , the G._O._P. without positive program campaigned on the popular disillusionment with liberal leadership and won overwhelmingly . |
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[ adjective ] (physics) having a positive electric charge
Synonyms Examples "protons are positive" Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)Figure 3 shows the data on a silicone fluid , labeled 12500 cps which gave a high positive normal pressure . |
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[ adjective ] impossible to deny or disprove
Synonyms Examples "incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence" "proof positive" "an irrefutable argument" Used in print (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)An action once universally condemned by all Christian_churches and forbidden by the civil_law is now not_only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant_denominations , but also deemed , at certain times , to be a positive religious duty . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] formally laid down or imposed
Synonyms Examples "positive laws" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)He is a trustee for the common good , however feeble the safeguards which the positive or municipal law of property provides against his misuse of that share of the common fund , wisely or unwisely , entrusted to his keeping . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (mathematics) greater than zero
Examples "positive numbers" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] marked by excessive confidence
Synonyms Examples "an arrogant and cocksure materialist" "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen" "the less he knows the more positive he gets" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] persuaded of; very sure
Examples "were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join" "I am positive he is lying" "was confident he would win" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)I can n't tell when , but I'm positive I witnessed this same scene of this particular gathering at some time in the past '' ! He was almost positive it was not Assyrian nor Cassite , and imagined it must have been German or English . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (philosophy) of or relating to positivism
Synonyms Examples "positivist thinkers" "positivist doctrine" "positive philosophy" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] granting what has been desired or requested
Synonyms Examples "a favorable reply" "a positive answer" Related terms |
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