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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She was seen “squinting with teary eyes” before testing positive for a potentially fatal bacterial infection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mandating AI use at work can become purely performative, rather than having any real positive impact, warns Kamila Miller, applied AI researcher and lecturer at Henley Business School.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Despite pressures galore, August was another positive month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
In fact, more so than practically anywhere else in Europe, sentiment in Albania toward America is pretty positive.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
She would shake her head in a negative way when she didn’t like it, nod in a positive way when she did.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
Despite the positives around the recent window, Haaland is now City's only first-team striker.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Joao Pedro, in particular, impressed staff by giving more interviews than any other player during a season in which there were few positives to discuss.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“In most statistical exercises, it’s not unthinkable that there might be 0.019% false positives – and if that were the case here, that would turn the total conclusions to zero,” he said.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
This is one of several positives they see in Telstra’s latest update.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Number one was okay since it was negatives and positives and those aren’t too bad.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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