positive
Usage
What are other ways to say positive?
The adjective positive implies emphatic certainty, which may even become overconfidence or dogmatism. Certain suggests that there are definite reasons that have freed one from doubt. Confident emphasizes the strength of the belief or the certainty of expectation felt. Sure, the simplest and most general term, expresses mere absence of doubt.
Example Sentences
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Wall Street had provided a positive lead, with all three main indexes rising, though the gains were based entirely on the tech sector, which was the only one of 11 to advance.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
On the positive side, we’ve all heard the hype from Silicon Valley that we’re gonna have medical breakthroughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Trump shared a positive rapport with Fauci during the early days of the pandemic in his first term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
However, it is understood discussions between Atletico and Arsenal over a club-to-club agreement for Alvarez have been positive.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
I’d asked her once what would have happened to me if I hadn’t tested positive for the active Glitching gene, and she’d been purposefully vague.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
There are a lot of positives for Carrick to take from a pre-season of five weeks and six games.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Since the public rolls don’t include voters’ unique identifiers, people at the lab also knew linking them to HSI’s data would produce mismatches — what the staffer called an “ungodly” number of false positives.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
This is one of several positives they see in Telstra’s latest update.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
At 98% specificity, meaning the test produced few false positives, it identified about 63% of cancers across all stages.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Yes. I suppose. Ten percent of the island’s Caucasian male population. It—” “And isn’t the percentage even higher, doctor, for males of Japanese descent? A higher percentage of B positives among the island’s Japanese-Americans?”
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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