Meaning of 'positive'

adjective

involving advantage or good

Example: "a plus (or positive) factor"

Synonyms: plus

adjective

marked by excessive confidence

Synonyms: cocksure overconfident

adjective

having a positive charge

Example: "protons are positive"

Synonyms: electropositive positively charged

adjective

impossible to deny or disprove

Synonyms: incontrovertible irrefutable

adjective

formally laid down or imposed

Example: "positive laws"

Synonyms: prescribed

adjective

characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

Example: "a positive attitude"

adjective

greater than zero

Example: "positive numbers"

adjective

reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion

Example: "positive increase in graduating students"

adjective

indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

Example: "a positive pregnancy test"

Synonyms: confirming

adjective

of or relating to positivism

Synonyms: positivist

noun

a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

noun

the primary form of an adjective or adverb

Synonyms: positive degree

adjective

persuaded of

Synonyms: convinced