| Sounds | paa'zahtihv | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.. | |
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| Attribute of | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Narrower | affirmative, optimistic | Expecting the best |
| constructive | emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | |
| See also | affirmative, affirmatory | affirming or giving assent |
| constructive | Constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | |
| optimistic | Expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds | |
| supportive | Furnishing support or assistance | |
| Opposite | negative | Characterized by or displaying negation or denial / denial or opposition or resistance |
| neutral | Possessing no distinctive / distinctive quality or characteristics / characteristics | |
| Spanish | positivo, útil | |
| Catalan | positiu, útil | |
| Nouns | positivity, positiveness | a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness |
| Adverbs | positively | so as to be positive |
| Meaning | persuaded of; very sure. | |
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| Example | "I am positive he is lying" | |
| Synonyms | convinced, confident | |
| Broader | certain, sure | Having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty |
| Spanish | convencido | |
| Catalan | convençut | |
| Adverbs | positively | extremely |
| Meaning | Involving advantage or good. | |
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| Example | "a plus (or positive) factor" | |
| Synonym | plus | |
| Broader | advantageous, favorable, favourable | Giving an advantage |
| Meaning | Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a positive pregnancy test" | |
| Synonym | confirming | |
| Category | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
| Narrower | Gram-positive | (of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method |
| Opposite | negative, disconfirming | not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition |
| Meaning | formally laid down or imposed. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "positive laws" | |
| Synonym | prescribed | |
| Broader | formal | In accord / accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) |
| Spanish | definitivo, prescrito | |
| Meaning | impossible to deny or disprove. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "proof positive" | |
| Synonyms | incontrovertible, irrefutable | |
| Broader | undeniable | not possible to deny |
| Spanish | incontestable, incontrovertible, incuestionable, indubitable, indudable, innegable, irrefutable | |
| Catalan | fefaent, incontrovertible, indiscutible, indubtable, innegable, inqüestionable, irrebatible, irrefutable | |
| Nouns | positivity | the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about |
| Meaning | Of or relating to positivism. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "positive philosophy" | |
| Synonyms | positivist, positivistic | |
| Spanish | positiva, positivista | |
| Catalan | positivista | |
| Nouns | positiveness | a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness |
| positivism | the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | |
| Meaning | reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase / increase / increase / increase or progress or onward motion. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "positive increase in graduating students" | |
| Opposite | negative | reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive |
| Meaning | Greater than zero. | |
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| Example | "positive numbers" | |
| Category | mathematics, math, maths | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
| Broader | plus | On the positive side or higher end of a scale |
| Spanish | positivo | |
| Nouns | positivity | an amount greater than zero |
| Meaning | Having a positive charge. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "protons are positive" | |
| Synonyms | electropositive, positively charged | |
| Broader | charged | Of a particle or body or system |
| Meaning | marked by excessive confidence. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the less he knows the more positive he gets" | |
| Synonyms | cocksure, overconfident | |
| Broader | confident | Having or marked by confidence or assurance |
| Spanish | altivo, arrogante, atrevido, engreído, petulante, presuntuoso | |
| Catalan | altiu, arrogant, atrevit, cregut, immodest, petulant, presumptuós | |
| Nouns | positiveness | a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness |
| Meaning | The primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | positive degree | |
| Broader | adjective | A word that expresses an attribute of something |
| adverb | A word that modifies something other than a noun | |
| Spanish | positivo | |
| Meaning | A film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject. | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of | slide, lantern slide | A transparency mounted in a frame |
| Broader | film, photographic film | photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion |
| Spanish | positivo | |
| Catalan | positiu | |
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