positive

Meanings

Adjective

• Not negative or neutral.
• Formally laid down.
• Stated definitively and without qualification.
• Fully assured in opinion.
• Of number, greater than zero.
• Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
• Overconfident, dogmatic.
• Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
• Having more protons than electrons.
• Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
• Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
• Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
• Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
• Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
• Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
• Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
• Optimistic.
• electropositive
• basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
• HIV positive.
• Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').

Noun

• A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
• A favourable point or characteristic.
• Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
• A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
• An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
• A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
• The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• A positive result of a test.

Related

Similar words

• certain, sure, wis

Opposite words

• uncertain, unsure
• bad, evil, nongood

Origin

• From Old French positif, from Latin positivus, from the past participle stem of ponere. Compare posit.