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positive
adjective as in definite, certain
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- actual
- assured
- categorical
- clear-cut
- cocksure
- complete
- consummate
- convinced
- decided
- direct
- downright
- explicit
- factual
- forceful
- forcible
- genuine
- hard
- inarguable
- incontestable
- incontrovertible
- indisputable
- indubitable
- irrefutable
- out-and-out
- outright
- sure
- thorough
- thoroughgoing
- unambiguous
- undeniable
- unequivocal
- unmistakable
- unmitigated
adjective as in beneficial, helpful
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Example Sentences
However, other events could have a positive impact.
Mr Burns was speaking after a meeting with Communities Minister Gordon Lyons, which he described as positive at the time.
He believes anything that can be done to improve driver safety has to be seen as a positive.
She said patients had reported "very positive" interactions with PAs, but she had particular concerns about the fact patients were not always told or made aware they were being seen by a PA.
That helps me stay positive, as does the personal effort I put into Brain Power - a fundraising community I set up to help establish a new Brain Tumour Research centre in Scotland.
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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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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