Definitions for positives

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positives pos·i·tive

Spelling: [poz-i-tiv]

IPA: /ˈpɒz ɪ tɪv/

Positives is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 258 anagrams from letters in positives (eiiopsstv).

Definitions for positives

noun

1. something positive.
2. a positive quality or characteristic.
3. a positive quantity or symbol.
4. Grammar. the positive degree. a form in the positive, as good or smooth.
5. Photography. a positive image, as on a print or transparency.
6. something positive.
7. a positive quality or characteristic.
8. a positive quantity or symbol.
9. Grammar. the positive degree. a form in the positive, as good or smooth.
10. Photography. a positive image, as on a print or transparency.

adjective

1. explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed:
2. admitting of no question:
3. stated; express; emphatic:
4. confident in opinion or assertion; fully assured:
5. overconfident or dogmatic:
6. without relation to or comparison with other things; not relative or comparative; absolute.
7. Informal. downright; out-and-out:
8. determined by enactment or convention; arbitrarily laid down:
9. emphasizing what is laudable, hopeful, or to the good; constructive:
10. encouraging or noting a healthy or balanced outlook toward something, especially toward sex and sexuality (used in combination):
11. not speculative or theoretical; practical:
12. possessing an actual force, being, existence, etc.
13. Philosophy. constructive and sure, rather than skeptical. concerned with or based on matters of experience:
14. showing or expressing approval or agreement; favorable:
15. consisting in or characterized by the presence or possession of distinguishing or marked qualities or features (opposed to negative):
16. noting the presence of such qualities, as a term.
17. measured or proceeding in a direction assumed as beneficial, progressive, or auspicious:
18. 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.
19. of, relating to, or noting the north pole of a magnet.
20. Chemistry. (of an element or group) tending to lose electrons and become positively charged; basic.
21. 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).
22. Medicine/Medical. (of blood, affected tissue, etc.) indicating the presence of a specified medical condition or substance: (of a diagnostic test) indicating the presence of the medical condition or substance tested for: (of a person) diagnosed as having a specified medical condition, or having a specified substance in the body (often used in combination):
23. Biochemistry. Rh factor.
24. Mathematics. noting a quantity greater than zero.
25. (of government) assuming control or regulation of activities beyond those involved merely with the maintenance of law and order.
26. Biology. oriented or moving toward the focus of excitation:
27. Photography. denoting a print or transparency showing the brightness values as they are in the subject.
28. 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.:
29. explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed:
30. admitting of no question:
31. stated; express; emphatic:
32. confident in opinion or assertion; fully assured:
33. overconfident or dogmatic:
34. without relation to or comparison with other things; not relative or comparative; absolute.
35. Informal. downright; out-and-out:
36. determined by enactment or convention; arbitrarily laid down:
37. emphasizing what is laudable, hopeful, or to the good; constructive:
38. encouraging or noting a healthy or balanced outlook toward something, especially toward sex and sexuality (used in combination):
39. not speculative or theoretical; practical:
40. possessing an actual force, being, existence, etc.
41. Philosophy. constructive and sure, rather than skeptical. concerned with or based on matters of experience:
42. showing or expressing approval or agreement; favorable:
43. consisting in or characterized by the presence or possession of distinguishing or marked qualities or features (opposed to negative):
44. noting the presence of such qualities, as a term.
45. measured or proceeding in a direction assumed as beneficial, progressive, or auspicious:
46. 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.
47. of, relating to, or noting the north pole of a magnet.
48. Chemistry. (of an element or group) tending to lose electrons and become positively charged; basic.
49. 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).
50. Medicine/Medical. (of blood, affected tissue, etc.) indicating the presence of a specified medical condition or substance: (of a diagnostic test) indicating the presence of the medical condition or substance tested for: (of a person) diagnosed as having a specified medical condition, or having a specified substance in the body (often used in combination):
51. Biochemistry. Rh factor.
52. Mathematics. noting a quantity greater than zero.
53. (of government) assuming control or regulation of activities beyond those involved merely with the maintenance of law and order.
54. Biology. oriented or moving toward the focus of excitation:
55. Photography. denoting a print or transparency showing the brightness values as they are in the subject.
56. 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.:

Origin of positives

1250-1300; Latin positīvus; replacing Middle English positif Middle French Latin, as above. See posit, -ive

Examples for positives

It means also the power of soul accumulated in the positive doing of good.

The positive character of this prediction made it very, welcome.

As the sun set on Monday and the search was called off for the day, there had been no positive update on the possible wreckage.

These (roughly) $2,500 ceremonies are supposedly about encouraging “positive feelings” on the part of the single brides.

To all the generations before our own matter was a sheer and positive density.

I can not give you any positive dates connected with Prehistoric Man.

There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.

And more than that—the world is ending because of the changes that many of us see as positive.

Let us by all means give them instead a dose of positive philosophy.

And the fact that satire unnerves the intolerant is evidence of its positive power.

Now, for the positives: The big takeaway of the positive elements of the GOP is that culture war issues generally scored low.

This occurs in the negatives also, though not to such an extent as in the positives.

In the case of the positives, there is no remedy, and the plates should be discarded.

But the positives are moot if people fail to recognize the problem of eWaste and to realize they can do their part to reduce it.

If the positives are buckled, the negatives will be also, but not to the extent that the positives are.

But there are a lot of positives in the relationship, too, and both presidents were at pains to stress them.

Marlow: But the positives this season far outweighed the negatives.

The positives of meditation are many, but mastering the practice can be a challenge.

(g) The spongy lead may be bulged, or the positives may be buckled.

positives do not swell or bulge as they discharge, but shed the active material.