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1. Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
   "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand"
    
2. Persuaded of; very sure
   "I am positive he is lying";
   - convinced, confident
    
3. Involving advantage or good
   "a positive factor";
   - plus
    
4. Formally laid down or imposed
   "positive laws";
   - prescribed
    
5. Impossible to deny or disprove
   "proof positive";
   - incontrovertible, irrefutable, ungainsayable
    
6. (mathematics) greater than zero
   "positive numbers"
    
7. Having a positive charge
   "protons are positive";
   - electropositive, positively charged
    
8. Marked by excessive confidence
   "the less he knows the more positive he gets";
   - cocksure, overconfident
    
9. (medicine) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
   "a positive pregnancy test";
   - confirming
    
10. Of or relating to positivism
    "positive philosophy";
    - positivist, positivistic
     
11. Reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
    "positive increase in graduating students"

1. The primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
   - positive degree
    
2. A film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

Derived forms: positives

See also: advantageous, affirmative, affirmatory, certain, charged, confident, constructive, favorable [US], favourable [Brit, Cdn], formal, Gram-positive, optimistic, plus, quality, supportive, sure, undeniable

Type of: adjective, adverb, film, photographic film

Antonym: negative, neutral

Part of: diapositive, lantern slide, slide

Encyclopedia: Positive