Usually means: Characterized by presence or affirmation.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word positive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. positive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. positive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. positive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. positive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. positive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Positive, positive: Wordnik
  7. positive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. positive: Wiktionary
  9. positive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. positive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. positive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. positive: Dictionary.com
  13. positive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. positive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Positive (EP), Positive (TV series), Positive (disambiguation), Positive (electricity), Positive (linguistics), Positive (photography), Positive (social sciences), Positive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Positive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. positive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. positive: Rhymezone
  19. positive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. positive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. positive: Free Dictionary
  22. positive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. positive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. positive: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Positive: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Positive (disambiguation), positive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Positive (disambiguation), positive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. positive: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  4. Positive (disambiguation), positive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. positive: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Positive: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. positive, positive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Positive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. positive: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. positive: Electronics
  3. positive: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  4. Positive: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  5. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  6. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
adjective:  (law) Formally laid down.
adjective:  Stated definitively and without qualification.
adjective:  Fully assured in opinion.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
adjective:  Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
adjective:  Overconfident, dogmatic.
adjective:  (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
adjective:  (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
adjective:  (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
adjective:  (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
adjective:  Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
adjective:  Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
adjective:  Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
adjective:  (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
adjective:  Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
adjective:  Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
adjective:  Optimistic.
adjective:  (chemistry) electropositive
adjective:  (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
adjective:  (slang) HIV positive.
adjective:  (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
adjective:  downright, confirmed, straight-up.
noun:  A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
noun:  A favourable point or characteristic.
noun:  Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
noun:  (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
noun:  (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
noun:  (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
noun:  The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
noun:  A positive result of a test.

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