positive

Adjective

• marked by excessive confidence
  • an arrogant and cocksure materialist
    
  • so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen
    
  • the less he knows the more positive he gets
    

• having a positive charge
  • protons are positive
    

• greater than zero
  • positive numbers
    

• reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
  • positive increase in graduating students
    

• of or relating to positivism
  • positivist thinkers
    
  • positivist doctrine
    
  • positive philosophy
    

• impossible to deny or disprove
  • incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence
    
  • proof positive
    
  • an irrefutable argument
    

• formally laid down or imposed
  • positive laws
    

• indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
  • a positive pregnancy test
    

• involving advantage or good
  • a plus (or positive) factor
    

• persuaded of; very sure
  • were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join
    
  • I am positive he is lying
    
  • was confident he would win
    

• characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
  • a positive attitude
    
  • the reviews were all positive
    
  • a positive benefit
    
  • a positive demand
    

Noun

• a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

• the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cocksure , overconfident , electropositive , positively charged , positivist , positivistic , incontrovertible , irrefutable , prescribed , confirming , plus , convinced(p) , positive(p) , confident(p) , positive degree
• Antonyms: 
  negative , disconfirming , neutral