All 6 Uses of
positive
in
Gone with the Wind
- Everyone was smoldering, and it would have been a positive triumph for Scarlett, except for Ashley.†
Chpt 1.6
- Chancellorsville might be a more important victory but the capture of Streight's raiders made the Yankees positively ridiculous.†
Chpt 2.14
- It made a girl feel positively undressed.†
Chpt 3.19
- Her sharp trading was shocking, especially when her poor mother had been a Robillard, and it was positively indecent the way she kept on going about the streets when everyone knew she was pregnant.
Chpt 4.38positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- It swelled in her bosom until it positively ached with pleasure, ached as with a burden of joyful, hot, unshed tears.
Chpt 5.53 *positively = with certainty; or absolutely (used for emphasis)
- No," said Bonnie positively and climbed upon Rhett's lap.†
Chpt 5.57
Definition:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)