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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Seizing the opportunity to turn Scotland's notoriously unreliable summer weather into a positive, the couple have begun marketing their cottages as coolcation destinations.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The end could now be accelerated by the outcome of the investigation into his positive test.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The brokerage also sees an improving trend in passenger arrivals at the airports operated by AOT in 4Q, which will be positive to its earnings outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
That this readout was positive is good news for the eight other Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies in this program, according to William Blair analyst Myles Minter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 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
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
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
Monga played 30 times last season and took "positives" from his time at King Power Stadium as the club "gave me the foundation and stepping stone" at the start of his career.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Anawalt says screening large populations of adult men for testosterone levels will result in a lot of false positives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Instead, he poured his energy into the positives.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
Vocabulary lists containing positive
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