All 3 Uses of
positive
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- I AM POSITIVELY DEAD DURING MADEMOISELLE LeFarge's French class the next morning.†
Chpt 14positively = with certainty
- Ann gives her a small smile and Cecily looks positively terrified.†
Chpt 28 *
- She's positively flummoxed when I hand her five neat, orderly pages of French translation.†
Chpt 39
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) 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.