All 7 Uses of
positive
in
Man And Superman
- Neither of them could do anything with a serious positive character: they could place a human figure before you with perfect verisimilitude; but when the moment came for making it live and move, they found, unless it made them laugh, that they had a puppet on their hands, and had to invent some artificial external stimulus to make it work.†
Chpt Ded.
- Talk sense; or else go and waste someone else's time: I have something better to do than listen to your fooleries [he positively kicks his way to his table and resumes his seat].
Chpt 1positively = with certainty; or absolutely (used for emphasis)
- If I am to be your guardian, I positively forbid you to read that book, Annie.
Chpt 1
- He positively likes the car to break down because it brings out my gentlemanly helplessness and his workmanlike skill and resource.
Chpt 2
- But Rhoda positively prefers her mother to Ann.†
Chpt 2
- You are positively brilliant.
Chpt 3 *positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- [suddenly walking determinedly to her, and snatching her hand from Violet to feel her pulse] Why, her pulse is positively bounding.
Chpt 3positively = with certainty; or absolutely (used for emphasis)
Definition:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)