In the simplest sense, positive means good — or the opposite of negative. If you have a positive attitude about homework, for example, you're more likely to get positive feedback on your report card.
Keeping track of positive's many meanings can be positively confusing. For starters, if you're positive about something, you're totally sure. In math, any quantity greater than zero is positive. In medicine, a positive result on a test indicates the presence of a disease. And that isn't a very positive experience for anyone.
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characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
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reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
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involving advantage or good
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formally laid down or imposed
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of or relating to positivism
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a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
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