What is the meaning of the word "positive"?
Definitions:
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characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
adjective
- a positive attitude
- a positive attitude
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formally laid down or imposed
adjective
- positive laws
- positive laws
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greater than zero
adjective
- positive numbers
- positive numbers
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having a positive charge
adjective
- protons are positive
- protons are positive
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indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
adjective
- a positive pregnancy test
- a positive pregnancy test
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involving advantage or good
adjective
- a plus (or positive) factor
- a plus (or positive) factor
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reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
adjective
- positive increase in graduating students
- positive increase in graduating students
Synonyms:
- cocksure
- confirming
- convinced
- electropositive
- incontrovertible
- irrefutable
- overconfident
- plus
- positive degree
- positively charged
- positivist
- prescribed