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- Definitively laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed, precise, emphatic.
- Francis Bacon:
- Positive words, that he would not bear arms against King Edward’s son.
- Francis Bacon:
- Fully assured, confident; certain.
- I’m absolutely positive you've spelt that wrong.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Alexander Pope:
- Some positive, persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always so.
- Alexander Pope:
- Describing the primary sense of an adjective or adverb; not comparative or superlative.
- ‘Better’ is an irregular comparative of the positive form ‘good’.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
- The idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes of individuals.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- Good lord, you've built up a positive arsenal of weaponry here.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- The box was not empty – I felt some positive substance within it.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- The results of our experiment are positive.
- Characterized by affirmation, constructiveness, or influence for the better; favourable.
- He has a positive outlook on life.
- The first-night reviews were largely positive.
- Jonathan Swift:
- a positive voice in legislation.
- Actual, real, concrete.
- Francis Bacon:
- Positive good.
- Francis Bacon:
- Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- A positive photograph can be developed from a photographic negative.
- Having more protons than electrons.
- A cation is a positive ion as it has more protons than electrons.
- Of number, greater than zero.
- HIV positive.
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