Positive

//ˈpɑzɪtɪv//

Synonyms for "positive" (468 found)

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Closest matches (94)

affirmative certain confident constructive irrefutable overconfident plus absolute accented accentuated accordant actual admitting no exception advantageous affirmatory agreeable agreeing aidful algorismic algorithmic

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Adjective(13 words)

absolute acceptable agreeable all right anticlockwise as fine as dick's hatband awesome bad bene bodacious bona certain commendable

Adjective(3 words)

cocksure confident confirming

Strong matches (140)

consentaneous consentient consistent consonant consummate contact print contact printing contributory convinced convincing cooperating cooperative correspondent corresponding crass cyanotype darn de facto deaf decided

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decimal decisive declarative declaratory definite definitive demonstrable despotic determinate determined devout dictatorial differential digital ditto copy doctrinaire doctrinarian dogmatic dogmatizing doubtless downright egregious emphasized emphatic en rapport encouraging energetic enlargement enthusiastic entire equivalent even explicit exponential express factual faithful favorable fideistic figural figurate figurative final finite firm fixed flagrant flat flat out flat-out for real forceful forcible fractional functional furthersome gentry genuine glaring global glossy good for gram positive gross hard hard-nosed harmonious hectograph copy helpful historical hologram honest-to-god hubristic imaginary impair imperious implicit impossible impress impressed with impression in accord in agreement in harmony in rapport in red letters in sync in synchronization inaccordance inappealable incontestable incontrovertible indisputable indubitable ineluctable inevitable infinite inharmony integral intolerable irrational

Adjective(4 words)

convinced electropositive incontrovertible irrefutable

Adjective(15 words)

dandy as candy decent destined enjoyable excellent exceptional fantastic favourable fine goloptious good good as wheat in the bin gratifying great gucci

Related words (234)

italicized lantern slide like minded like-minded logarithmic logometric matte matter-of-fact microcopy microprint mimeograph copy minus necessary negative numeral numerary numerative numeric numerical obdurate

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obstinate odd of a piece of like mind of one mind offprint on all fours opinionated opinionative opinioned optimistic oracular ordinal out-and-out outright oversure overweening pair palpable peremptory perfect perfectly sure persuaded persuasive photocopy photograph photogravure photostat photostatic copy pietistic pigheaded pious pistic pointed poised pompous pontifical positive degree positivist positivistic possible practical pragmatical precious predestined predetermined predicational predicative prescribed prime print productive profitable profound projection printing promising pronounced pronunciative proof proper propitious proportionate proud punctuated purposeful radical rank rational real realistic reasonable reassured reassuring reciprocal reconcilable regular reliable remedial reprint right hand round salutary sanguine satisfied secure self-assured self-confident self-consistent self-important self-opinionated self-opinioned self-reliant semi-matte serviceable shattering sheer shocking slide sold on sound specific stark stark-staring starred stat straight straight out straight-out stressed stubborn submultiple substantial superlative supportive surd sure sure enough sure-enough surpassing symbiotic synchronized synchronous the veriest therapeutic thorough thoroughgoing total transcendental transparency true unafraid unambiguous unanimous unbearable uncircumscribed unconditional unconditioned unconscionable uncontestable uncontested undeniable under the impression underlined underscored undoubtful undoubting unequivocal unfaltering unhampered unhesitating uniform unisonant unisonous univocal unlimited unmistakable unmitigated unpersuadable unqualified unquestionable unquestioned unquestioning unrelieved unreserved unrestricted unspoiled unwaivable unwavering upbeat useful utilitarian utter veritable whole without exception without reserve xerox xerox copy yes

Adjective(28 words)

magnificent marked marvelous nice nonnegative not bad outstanding perfect phenomenal pleasant pleasing rad radical right as rain sanguine satisfying splendid stellar stupendous super

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superb sure sweet as a nut terrific tubular wis wonderful wondrous

Adjective(6 words)

overconfident plus positively charged positivist positivistic prescribed

Noun(1 words)

positive degree

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

12 relation types

More general

6 entries

adjective adverb film nonnegative nonzero photographic film

Antonyms

6 entries

bad negative neutral nonpositive uncertain

Synonyms

7 entries

certain confident irrefutable overconfident positive degree positivist prescribed

coordinate

1 entries

diapositive

defined as

2 entries

direct opposite of negative opposite of negative

derived

114 entries

A positive COVID-positive Gram-positive HIV-positive I am HIV positive Rh positive RhD positive Rhesus positive body-positive contrapositive copositive copropositive cytopositive diapositive dipositive false positive

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etymologically related_to

1 entries

posit

has context

10 entries

chemistry grammar legal mathematics medicine new age jargon philosophy photography physics slang

is a

1 entries

film

part of

1 entries

slide

related to

41 entries

abo acid actual affirmative augmentative basic blood blood type cell comparative concrete constructive diminutive dogmatic downright electrolytic

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similar

22 entries

Gram-positive advantageous affirmative affirmatory certain charged confident constructive favorable favourable formal gram positive

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Translations

282 translations across 46 languages.

Ancient Greek

3 entries

θετικός adj (stated definitively and without qualification)
θετικός adj (grammar: describing the primary sense)
θετικόν noun (grammar: degree of comparison)

Arabic

4 entries

إِيجَابِيّ adj (philosophy: actual, real, concrete)
مُوجَب adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
مُوجَب adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)
صُورَة مُوجَبَة noun (photography: a positive image)

Armenian

4 entries

դրական adj (not negative or neutral)
դրական adj (legal: formally laid down)
դրական adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
դրական adj (characterised by constructiveness)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

müsbət adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
müsbət adj (characterised by constructiveness)
müsbət adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)

Belarusian

4 entries

дада́тны adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
дада́тны adj (characterised by constructiveness)
пазіты́ўны adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
позіты́ўны adj (characterised by constructiveness)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

आशावादी adj (characterised by constructiveness)

Bulgarian

4 entries

определен adj (stated definitively and without qualification)
позитивен adj (photography: of a visual image true to the original)
положителен adj (not negative or neutral)
положителен adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Catalan

4 entries

positiu adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
positiu adj (characterised by constructiveness)
positiu adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)
positiu adj (grammar: describing the primary sense)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

正 adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
确定的 adj (legal: formally laid down)
正片 noun (photography: a positive image)

Czech

4 entries

kladný adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
kladný adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)
pozitivní adj (characterised by constructiveness)
pozitiv noun (grammar: degree of comparison)

Danish

2 entries

positiv adj (legal: formally laid down)
positiv adj (grammar: describing the primary sense)

Dutch

4 entries

HIV positief adj (slang: HIV positive)
positief adj (legal: formally laid down)
positief adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
positief adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)

Esperanto

1 entries

pozitiva adj (not negative or neutral)

Finnish

4 entries

absoluuttinen adj (derived from an object by itself; absolute)
itsevarma adj (overconfident, dogmatic)
kokonainen adj (downright, entire, outright)
myönteinen adj (characterised by constructiveness)

French

4 entries

positif adj (legal: formally laid down)
positif adj (characterised by features which support a hypothesis)
strictement positif adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
positif noun (photography: a positive image)

Georgian

3 entries

დადებითი adj (not negative or neutral)
დადებითი adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
პოზიტიური adj (not negative or neutral)

German

4 entries

positiv adj (legal: formally laid down)
Grundstufe noun (grammar: degree of comparison)
Positiv noun (grammar: degree of comparison)
Positiv noun (photography: a positive image)

Greek

2 entries

θετικός adj (not negative or neutral)
θετικός adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Hindi

3 entries

आशावादी adj (characterised by constructiveness)
धन adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)
सकारात्मक adj (optimistic)

Hungarian

4 entries

abszolút adj (downright, entire, outright)
alapfokú adj (grammar: describing the primary sense)
bizakodó adj (optimistic)
bizonyos adj (fully assured in opinion, confident)

Irish

4 entries

ceart adj (derived from an object by itself; absolute)
dearfach adj (grammar: describing the primary sense)
deimhneach adj (not negative or neutral)
deimhneach adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Italian

1 entries

positivo adj (legal: formally laid down)

Japanese

4 entries

明確な adj (legal: formally laid down)
正 adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
ポジフィルム noun (photography: a positive image)
陽画 noun (photography: a positive image)

Khmer

2 entries

ជាវិជ្ជមាន adj (legal: formally laid down)
ភាពវិជ្ជមាន adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Korean

2 entries

양 adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
확실한 adj (legal: formally laid down)

Latin

3 entries

gradus absolutus noun (grammar: degree of comparison)
gradus positivus noun (grammar: degree of comparison)
positivus noun (grammar: degree of comparison)

Latvian

1 entries

pozitīvs adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Marathi

3 entries

धन adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
धन adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)
सकारात्मक adj (optimistic)

Māori

4 entries

ngākau reka adj (fully assured in opinion, confident)
ngākau reka adj (characterised by constructiveness)
ngākau reka adj (optimistic)
tōrunga adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

positiv adj (grammar: describing the primary sense)

Occitan

1 entries

positiu adj (characterised by constructiveness)

Polish

4 entries

dodatni adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
dodatni adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)
pozytywny adj (characterised by features which support a hypothesis)
pozytywny adj (favorable, desirable)

Portuguese

4 entries

positivo adj (legal: formally laid down)
positivo adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
positivo adj (characterised by constructiveness)
positivo adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)

Punjabi

1 entries

ਧਨਾਤਮਿਕ adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Romanian

4 entries

HIV pozitiv adj (slang: HIV positive)
pozitiv adj (legal: formally laid down)
pozitiv adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
pozitiv adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)

Russian

4 entries

позити́вный adj (not negative or neutral)
позити́вный adj (legal: formally laid down)
позити́вный adj (characterised by constructiveness)
положи́тельный adj (not negative or neutral)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

deimhinn adj (fully assured in opinion, confident)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

HIV pozitivan adj (slang: HIV positive)
pozitivan na HIV adj (slang: HIV positive)
siguran adj (fully assured in opinion, confident)
pȍzitīv noun (grammar: degree of comparison)

Slovak

4 entries

istý adj (fully assured in opinion, confident)
kladný adj (not negative or neutral)
kladný adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
kladný adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)

Spanish

4 entries

positivo adj (legal: formally laid down)
positivo adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
positivo adj (characterised by constructiveness)
positivo adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)

Swedish

4 entries

absolut adj (derived from an object by itself; absolute)
faktisk adj (philosophy: actual, real, concrete)
positiv adj (legal: formally laid down)
positiv adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Tagalog

1 entries

tahas adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Thai

1 entries

บวก adj (mathematics: greater than zero)

Turkish

3 entries

emin adj (fully assured in opinion, confident)
olumlu adj (legal: formally laid down)
pozitif adj (legal: formally laid down)

Ukrainian

3 entries

дода́тний adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
позити́вний adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
позити́вний adj (characterised by constructiveness)

Vietnamese

4 entries

dương adj (mathematics: greater than zero)
dương adj (physics: having more protons than electrons)
luật chế định adj (legal: formally laid down)
luật thực chứng adj (legal: formally laid down)

Sample sentences

35 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I am positive that he is wrong.

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Try to have a positive attitude about everything.

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The result of the tuberculin test was positive.

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I've decided to be more positive and give it all I've got.

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