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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U.K. businesses became more upbeat about their prospects in August, a positive sign for the economy as greater confidence could strengthen hiring and investment in the coming months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
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
Block the negative, make way for the positive.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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
But she remembers lots of positives from that time too, including when she became friends with another player's partner.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
What they had in common is what kept them apart Mr. Paul had told me to use my head, so I started stacking up the positives against the negatives.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
Vocabulary lists containing positive
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