positive

Definitions of positive in various dictionaries:

noun - the primary form of an adj ective or ad verb

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

adj - characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

adj - persuaded of

adj - involving advantage or good

adj - indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

adj - formally laid down or imposed

adj - impossible to deny or disprove

adj - of or relating to positivism

adj - reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion

adj - greater than zero

adj - having a positive charge

adj - marked by excessive confidence

Characterized by or displaying certainty, acceptance, or affirmation: a positive answer; positive criticism.

Measured or moving forward or in a direction of increase or progress.

Explicitly or openly expressed or laid down: a positive demand.

Admitting of no doubt; irrefutable: positive proof.

Overconfident; dogmatic.

Formally or arbitrarily determined; prescribed.

Concerned with practical rather than theoretical matters.

Composed of or characterized by the presence of particular qualities or attributes; real.

Philosophy.

Of or relating to positivism.

Of or relating to laws imposed by human authority rather than by nature or reason alone: “the glaring discrepancy between American positive law and natural rights” (David Brion Davis).

Of or relating to religion based on revelation rather than on nature or reason alone.

Utter; absolute: a positive darling.

Mathematics.

Relating to or designating a quantity greater than zero.

Relating to or designating the sign (+).

Relating to or designating a quantity, number, angle, or direction opposite to another designated as negative.

Relating to or designating electric charge of a sign opposite to that of an electron.

Indicating the presence of a particular disease, condition, or organism: a positive test for pregnancy.

Indicating or characterized by response or motion toward the source of a stimulus, such as light: positive tropism.

Having the areas of light and dark in their original and normal relationship, as in a photographic print made from a negative.

Grammar.

Driven by or generating power directly through intermediate machine parts having little or no play: positive drive.

An affirmative element or characteristic.

Philosophy.

A quantity greater than zero.

A positive electric charge.

A photographic image in which the lights and darks appear as they do in nature.

Grammar.

The uncompared degree of an adj ective or ad verb .

A word in this degree.

A division of some pipe organs, similar in sound to the great but smaller and less powerful.

adj - absolutely confident

noun - a quantity greater than zero