positive
积极的,积极,正面,正面的
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- : explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement.
- : admitting of no question: positive proof.
- : stated; express; emphatic: a positive denial.
- : confident in opinion or assertion; fully assured: He is positive that he will win the contest.
- : overconfident or dogmatic: The less he knows, the more positive he gets.
- : without relation to or comparison with other things; not relative or comparative; absolute.
- : Informal. downright; out-and-out: She's a positive genius.
- : determined by enactment or convention; arbitrarily laid down: positive law.
- : emphasizing what is laudable, hopeful, or to the good; constructive: a positive attitude toward the future; positive things to say about a painting.
- : encouraging or noting a healthy or balanced outlook toward something, especially toward sex and sexuality:sex-positive attitudes;the body-positive movement;a gay-positive movie.
- : not speculative or theoretical; practical: a positive approach to the problem.
- : possessing an actual force, being, existence, etc.
- : Philosophy. constructive and sure, rather than skeptical.concerned with or based on matters of experience: positive philosophy.
- : showing or expressing approval or agreement; favorable: a positive reaction to the speech.
- : consisting in or characterized by the presence or possession of distinguishing or marked qualities or features: Light is positive, darkness negative.
- : noting the presence of such qualities, as a term.
- : measured or proceeding in a direction assumed as beneficial, progressive, or auspicious: a positive upturn in the stock market.
- : 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.
- : of, relating to, or noting the north pole of a magnet.
- : Chemistry. tending to lose electrons and become positively charged; basic.
- : Grammar. being, noting, or pertaining to the initial degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, as the positive form good.Compare comparative, superlative.
- : Medicine/Medical. indicating the presence of a specified medical condition or substance:Her urine was positive for opiates. indicating the presence of the medical condition or substance tested for:a positive test for tuberculosis. diagnosed as having a specified medical condition, or having a specified substance in the body:He's HIV positive.She tested positive for lupus.
- : Biochemistry. Rh factor.
- : Mathematics. noting a quantity greater than zero.
- : assuming control or regulation of activities beyond those involved merely with the maintenance of law and order.
- : Biology. oriented or moving toward the focus of excitation: a positive tropism.
- : Photography. denoting a print or transparency showing the brightness values as they are in the subject.
- : 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.
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- : something positive.
- : a positive quality or characteristic.
- : a positive quantity or symbol.
- : a positive test result:The athlete was disqualified from competing because his drug test came back a positive.
- : Grammar. the positive degree.a form in the positive, as good or smooth.
- : Photography. a positive image, as on a print or transparency.
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Examples
That’s either a positive or a negative, depending on how you weigh the evidence.
She hopes everyone will take the positives from distance learning with them when they go back to in-person classes.
Federal defense attorney Jeremey Warren said although many of his clients in the facility have tested positive, it’s been difficult for him to get information about what’s happening inside.
I asked Thom Mayer if he thought the positive tests meant the season might be over before it could begin.
It may be the thing that we get more positive comments about from customers than anything else.
There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.
But he, like many people using dating apps whatever their sexual identity, remains stoutly positive.
And the fact that satire unnerves the intolerant is evidence of its positive power.
The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.
And more than that—the world is ending because of the changes that many of us see as positive.
He was positive he had seen some one enter the room, go to the chair, and take the money from his pockets.
At last his anxiety reached a point where he was positive that if he received an adverse decision, it would surely kill him.
Some hidden magnetism burst from him like an aura, and his cold pasty face and light gray eyes flamed into positive beauty.
It is a sensitive test, and, when positive, is absolute proof of the presence of blood.
There is no proof positive that it was henceforth his invariable rule to put this kind of finish.