Word: positive
Category: positive
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Related words: positive
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Synonyms: positive
affirmative, favorable, good, approving, enthusiastic, supportive, encouraging, constructive, practical, useful, productive, helpful, worthwhile, beneficial, effective, optimistic, hopeful, confident, cheerful, sanguine, buoyant, upbeat, promising, heartening, propitious, auspicious, definite, conclusive, certain, categorical, unequivocal, incontrovertible, indisputable, undeniable, unmistakable, irrefutable, reliable, concrete, tangible, clear-cut, explicit, firm, decisive, real, actual, sure, convinced, satisfied, assured, confirming, plus, prescribed, electropositive, positivist, cocksure, overconfident
Translations: positive
The meaning and "use of": positive
- consisting in or characterized by the presence or possession of features or qualities rather than their absence. - Mitomycin C and cyclophosphamide were used as positive controls in the absence and presence of S9, respectively.
- with no possibility of doubt; clear and definite. - he made a positive identification of a glossy ibis
- of, containing, producing, or denoting an electric charge opposite to that carried by electrons. - These minerals in their ion state carry either negative or positive charges, much like a car battery.
- (of a photographic image) showing lights and shades or colors true to the original. - This kind of photograph is a unique positive picture produced on a thin sheet of iron blackened by tar.
- (of an adjective or adverb) expressing a quality in its basic, primary degree. - We were studying positive , comparative and superlative adjectives and, as usual, having a pretty hard time with it.
- dealing only with matters of fact and experience; not speculative or theoretical. - In other words, it attempts to form a positive conception of noumena.
- (of a quantity) greater than zero. - He defines limits of positive variable quantities using ideas that he had used in looking at limits of series.
- a good, affirmative, or constructive quality or attribute. - take your weaknesses and translate them into positives
- a photographic image showing lights and shades or colors true to the original, especially one printed from a negative. - In this process I first make a contact interpositive and then an enlarged negative from the contact positive .
- a result of a test or experiment indicating the presence of something. - let us look at the distribution of those positives
- a number greater than zero. - Two positives combined will always yield another positive.
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