Positive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POSITIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something greater than zero
• a desirable or constructive quality or attribute
• a positive photographic image, especially one printed from a negative
• a result of a test or experiment indicating that a certain substance or condition is present or exists
• the part of an electric circuit that is at a higher electrical potential than another point designated as having zero electrical potential
• a number greater than zero.
• an adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
• That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.
• That which settles by absolute appointment.
• The positive degree or form.
• A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative.
• The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
• a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
ADJECTIVE:
• assertive, affirmative
• consisting in or characterized by the presence rather than the absence of distinguishing features.
• expressing or implying affirmation, agreement, or permission
• (of the results of a test or experiment) indicating that a certain substance or condition is present or exists
• (of a person) having a specified condition, or showing traces of a specified substance in their body
• constructive, optimistic, or confident
• showing progress or improvement
• with no possibility of doubt; definite
• downright; complete (used for emphasis)
• (of a quantity) greater than zero.
• containing, producing, or denoting an electric charge opposite to that carried by electrons
• (of a photographic image) showing lights and shades or colours true to the original.
• denoting the primary degree of an adjective or adverb, which expresses simple quality without qualification.
• dealing only with matters of fact and experience; not speculative or theoretical.
• relating to or denoting any of the air or fire signs, considered active in nature.
• Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.
• Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals.
• Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or promise.
• Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof.
• Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.
• Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons.
• Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation.
• Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.
• Electro-positive.
• Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
• characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
• persuaded of; very sure
• involving advantage or good
• indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
• formally laid down or imposed
• impossible to deny or disprove
• of or relating to positivism
• reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
• having a positive charge
• marked by excessive confidence
• convinced in one's opinion; certain
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as plus
• a quantity greater than zero

Words related to POSITIVE

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Words that contain POSITIVE

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How to use POSITIVE in a sentence

• Are we only to be blessed in the next? To that the Seventh Article of our Church gives a plain and positive answer.
• We have positive evidence of the extent of the alarm, although great efforts were afterwards made to represent it as a trifling affair.
• This conclusion is confirmed by the positive statement of the Russian government.
• And, if it is meant that we should have a positive, present conviction that we are in no danger, this we must deny, as we find it contradicted in innumerable instances.
• Well, how was I to know? Your instructions to me were positive.
• I find that danger, if not positive injury, awaits you.
• Egyptian paintings of the third century bear less positive witness to the fumblings of a new spirit.
• He motioned her away with a woeful and positive gesture, and stood with hopeless yet half defiant attitude before his father.
• In order to overcome this, the positive electrode should be made of the same metal as that which is to be deposited.
• John is as positive that there are two sides to everything, as Columbus was that the Eastern Hemisphere must have something to balance it.
• The mark of breeding is more often discovered in what one does not say, does not write, does not do, than in positive action.
• Miss Kate Claghorn and other experienced workers agree in this view, and think it would be a positive misfortune to make ability to read the deciding test.
• This, at all events, seems to be the case at the time when we first acquire any positive information concerning them.
• But neither with these torments could they obtain any positive answer to their demands.
• Such were the positive orders of congress, and Sullivan proved himself to be their willing agent in the evil work.
• That flat negation only makes the rejected truth more positive.
• We do not mean to imply by this that we have no positive knowledge, or that we do not increase in knowledge.
• To our great regret, it is the only positive record which survives of the adolescence of this great mind, on whose development we should so gladly dwell if it were possible.
• It must be a positive case and one which calls for no possible feeling of sympathy or where there is no personal appeal that will work the conviction of a woman.
• When considered deeply it is found that there is not even the slightest trace of any positive existence.
• He then attached one of them to the positive conductor of an electric machine, and the other to the gas-pipes of this building.
• It is so awfully quiet and pretty-behaved and positive.
• Still he had positive proof that they were alive, and, as his heart gave a joyful throb or two, he stepped into the glade.
• As love is a positive virtue, a failure to love is a violation of obligations.
• I dominate the situation, and manifest my positive psychic qualities over theirs.
• The second contribution of the nineteenth century towards political internationalism is of a more positive character.
• He is a positive with the courage of his convictions, and believes in aggressive politics.

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