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positiveness

/poz-i-tiv/US // ˈpɒz ɪ tɪv //UK // (ˈpɒzɪtɪv) //

积极性,正面性,积极向上,积极的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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

  • There was also an additional positive case at a building across the street.

  • A number of NFL players have tested positive for the coronavirus, though no games have been canceled.

  • About 30 Lorien employees had just tested positive, according to the University of Maryland lab.

  • There are other positives to take from the upcoming winter, but it will involve managing expectations.

  • Then, in August, the first resident tested positive after returning from a hospital in Charlottesville.

  • But meantime, all we can say with positiveness is this: man, the created, is becoming the creator.

  • The boy spoke eagerly, but the more wily schemer shook his head with positiveness.

  • But everywhere Aaron ben Elijah lacks the positiveness and commanding mastery of Maimonides.

  • Across the illusory positiveness of his world—immaterial, psychological, ghostly—an intermediate orb—a tangible shadow was thrown.

  • “Let him go home in the rain, to be sure,” is given with positiveness, as if it settled the whole matter.