All 6 Uses
positive
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Three Cups of Tea
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- He was positive it hadn't appeared on any map he'd ever studied of the Karakoram, and he'd studied dozens.†
Chpt 2 *positive = certain
- Mortenson marveled at the positive effects marriage had on his life.†
Chpt 12 *positive = good or beneficial
- The time for us to turn all the suffering we'd helped to cause in Afghanistan into something positive was slipping away.†
Chpt 21
- The response was so overwhelmingly positive that it salved the wounds of the death threats he'd received soon after 9/11.†
Chpt 22positive = certain
- Three months earlier, Mortenson had positively skipped up this glacier in a pair of Teva sandals with no socks, his ninety-pound pack beside the point of the adventure that beckoned him up the Baltoro.†
Chpt 1
- Looking at her in that little black dress and those big boots I was positive she was the woman for me.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)
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(positive as in: had a positive effect) good or beneficial
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(positive as in: positive feedback from my boss) approval or agreement
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(positive as in: a positive attitude) optimistic (expecting or focusing on good things); or agreeable
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(positive as in: The test came back positive.) found a condition or substance to be present
indicating the presence of something being tested for -- especially a disease, condition, or substance -
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(positive as in: a positive number) greater than zero (of a number)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) See a comprehensive dictionary for less common meanings of positive including some in the fields of electricity, physics, chemistry, medicine, philosophy, and grammar. Note that most all senses of positive indicate that something is good or present.