Word Finder - positive

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A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.

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A favourable point or characteristic.

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Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.

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(grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.

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(grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.

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A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.

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The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

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A positive result of a test.

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Not negative or neutral.

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Formally laid down.

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Stated definitively and without qualification.

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Fully assured in opinion.

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I’m absolutely positive you've spelt that wrong.

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Of number, greater than zero.

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Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.

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Overconfident, dogmatic.

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Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.

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Having more protons than electrons.

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(grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.

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‘Better’ is an irregular comparative of the positive form ‘good’.

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Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.

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The idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes of individuals.

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Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.

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The box was not empty – I felt some positive substance within it.

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Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.

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The results of our experiment are positive.

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Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.

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A positive photograph can be developed from a photographic negative.

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Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.

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The first-night reviews were largely positive.

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Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.

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Good lord, you've built up a positive arsenal of weaponry here.

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Optimistic.

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He has a positive outlook on life.

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Electropositive

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Basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.

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HIV positive.

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(New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').

I'm positive she didn't notice us the first time.

She had to adopt a positive attitude.

I was positive all she did was substitute a different one for each letter in the alphabet.

Positive. She smelled amazingly human, only more so.

Let's consider examples of how the effect is positive for some, negative for some, but the net is a gain in the overall wealth of the system.

We constantly longed to follow up on our endeavors and make sure what Howie discovered was brought to a positive conclusion.

Next came a lesson on words expressive of positive quality.

While I knew we were helpless to do anything positive in Howie's absence, I never-the-less opened the site where Betsy located cases for our attention.

It wouldn't hurt to adopt a more positive outlook.

His logic and acceptance of the deformity was amazingly positive and mature for a 9-year-old.

Economic changes that have long-term positive benefits for society often have short-term negative ones.

I didn't say anything to Weller 'cause he's so positive everything is all wrapped up and tied with a bow, but I knew you and me would want to make double-dipped sure.

The largest positive and negative values recorded are met with during disturbed weather.

If jump ropes or board games or ice cream turn out to have positive externalities—that is, if they help society—a subsidy could lower the prices of these items.

She was positive she'd be lost for life.

I don't see how noticing a different color ink on Shipton's check made you so positive you set off after him the way you did.

Now, the way I see it, there's three ways to prove Byrne's alive—fingerprints, positive ID, or handwriting.

But Vico maintained that the one was continually progressing towards the other, positive law showing an increasing tendency to draw nearer to natural and rational law.

My dear Carrie--You are to look upon it as a most positive proof of my love that I write to you to-day.

We crammed in five sessions with three positive achievements, a new record.

In dry weather the electric potential in the atmosphere is normally positive relative to the earth, and increases with the height.

I was so positive it was impossible.

Are we positive we've got this right?

Dean wanted to be positive the son of a bitch was dead so he could have his wife; admit it, it was as simple as that.

The air, as is now known, has always present in it ions, some carrying a positive and others a negative charge, and those having the opposite sign to the charged body are attracted and tend to discharge it.

The explorations conducted in 1905 added positive evidence.

At the sending station one battery was to have its positive pole connected to the earth and its negative pole to an insulated condenser.

In his tract entitled Schelling's positive Philosophie als Einheit von Hegel and Schopenhauer (1869) he further showed that, in his later philosophy, Schelling had already combined reason and will in the Absolute.

He also devised an alternating current electrical machine in which the discharge balls were alternately positive and negative.

To some extent, we have this in the form of high taxes on cigarettes, which are seen to have negative externalities, and a home interest deduction on income taxes, as home ownership is viewed as having positive social good.

Alex said it might not have made any difference, and reminded her that she needed to think positive.

No. Just the opposite, but it's too early to be positive.

The Positive Philosophy is novel as a.

He always claimed to be the founder of the Positive Philosophy.

This work is accomplished in the last three volumes of the Positive Philosophy, and the second and third volumes of the Positive Polity.

As for the builders of Quemada, in Zacatecas, nothing positive is known.

In brief he contended that slavery was "local, not national," that it could exist only by virtue of positive State Law, that the Federal government was not empowered by the Constitution to create slavery anywhere, and that "when a slave leaves the jurisdiction of a state he ceases to be a slave, because he continues to be a man and leaves behind him the law which made him a slave."

Non-organized may or may not correspond to a positive - i.e.

The abdomen is still "full of surprises"; and he who has most experience of this deceptive region will have least confidence in expressing positive opinions in particular cases of disease without operative investigation.

In our conceptions of the later stages of assimilation and of excretion, with the generation of poisons (auto-intoxication) in the intestinal tract, there is still much obscurity and much guess-work; yet in some directions positive knowledge has been gained, partly by the physiologist, partly by the physician himself.

It was not his ideas or his commanding personality, nor any positive programme, that brought the Liberals back to power, but the country's weariness of their predecessors and the successful employment at the elections of a number of miscellaneous issues.

That his characteristic is for the most part an almost superhuman cleverness rather than positive genius is also true.

Positive blowers and exhausting apparatus of a great variety of forms have been used in mines for producing artificial ventilation.

Further, it is certain that Hero used physical and mathematical writings by Posidonius, the Stoic, of Apamea, Cicero's teacher, who lived until about the middle of the 1st century B.C. The positive arguments for the more modern view of Hero's date are (1) the use by him of Latinisms from which Diels concluded that the 1st century A.D.

However this may be, the earliest positive evidence of the existence at Venice of a worker in glass would seem to be the mention of Petrus Flavianus, phiolarius, in the ducale of Vitale Falier in the year 1090.

From the gas-equation in general, in the atmosphere n d dp _ I dp 1 de _ d0 de i de (8) z p dz-edz-p-edz-k-edz' which is positive, and the density p diminishes with the ascent, provided the temperature-gradient de/dz does not exceed elk.

An elongated body like a ship has c 2 -c 1 positive, and the couple N tends to disturb the axial movement and makes it unstable, so that a steamer requires to be steered by constant attention at the helm.

This rod was connected with the positive pole of the dynamo or electric generator.

The positive carbon was in some cases replaced by a water-cooled metal tube, or ferrule, closed, of course, at the end inserted in the crucible.

After he had acquired what he considered to be a sufficient stock of material, and this happened before he had completed the Positive Philosophy, he abstained from reading newspapers, reviews, scientific transactions and everything else, except two or three poets (notably Dante) and the Imitatio Christi.