ALL meanings of positives
pos·i·tive
P p - adjective positives explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement. 1
- adjective positives admitting of no question: positive proof. 1
- adjective positives stated; express; emphatic: a positive denial. 1
- adjective positives confident in opinion or assertion; fully assured: He is positive that he will win the contest. 1
- adjective positives overconfident or dogmatic: The less he knows, the more positive he gets. 1
- adjective positives without relation to or comparison with other things; not relative or comparative; absolute. 1
- adjective positives Informal. downright; out-and-out: She's a positive genius. 1
- adjective positives determined by enactment or convention; arbitrarily laid down: positive law. 1
- adjective positives emphasizing what is laudable, hopeful, or to the good; constructive: a positive attitude toward the future; positive things to say about a painting. 1
- adjective positives encouraging or noting a healthy or balanced outlook toward something, especially toward sex and sexuality (used in combination): sex-positive attitudes; the body-positive movement; a gay-positive movie. 1
- adjective positives not speculative or theoretical; practical: a positive approach to the problem. 1
- adjective positives possessing an actual force, being, existence, etc. 1
- adjective positives Philosophy. constructive and sure, rather than skeptical. concerned with or based on matters of experience: positive philosophy. 1
- adjective positives showing or expressing approval or agreement; favorable: a positive reaction to the speech. 1
- adjective positives consisting in or characterized by the presence or possession of distinguishing or marked qualities or features (opposed to negative): Light is positive, darkness negative. 1
- adjective positives noting the presence of such qualities, as a term. 1
- adjective positives measured or proceeding in a direction assumed as beneficial, progressive, or auspicious: a positive upturn in the stock market. 1
- adjective positives Electricity. of, relating to, or characterized by positive electricity. indicating a point in a circuit that has a higher potential than that of another point, the current flowing from the point of higher potential to the point of lower potential. 1
- adjective positives of, relating to, or noting the north pole of a magnet. 1
- adjective positives Chemistry. (of an element or group) tending to lose electrons and become positively charged; basic. 1
- adjective positives Grammar. being, noting, or pertaining to the initial degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, as the positive form good. Compare comparative (def 4), superlative (def 2). 1
- adjective positives Medicine/Medical. (of blood, affected tissue, etc.) indicating the presence of a specified medical condition or substance: Her urine was positive for opiates. (of a diagnostic test) indicating the presence of the medical condition or substance tested for: a positive test for tuberculosis. (of a person) diagnosed as having a specified medical condition, or having a specified substance in the body (often used in combination): He's HIV positive. She tested positive for lupus. 1
- adjective positives Biochemistry. Rh factor. 1
- adjective positives Mathematics. noting a quantity greater than zero. 1
- adjective positives (of government) assuming control or regulation of activities beyond those involved merely with the maintenance of law and order. 1
- adjective positives Biology. oriented or moving toward the focus of excitation: a positive tropism. 1
- adjective positives Photography. denoting a print or transparency showing the brightness values as they are in the subject. 1
- adjective positives Machinery. noting or pertaining to a process or machine part having a fixed or certain operation, especially as the result of elimination of play, free motion, etc.: positive lubrication. 1
- noun positives something positive. 1
- noun positives a positive quality or characteristic. 1
- noun positives a positive quantity or symbol. 1
- noun positives Grammar. the positive degree. a form in the positive, as good or smooth. 1
- noun positives Photography. a positive image, as on a print or transparency. 1