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positive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of positive

1 expressing approval
  • hoped for a positive reaction from the audience
Synonyms of positive

admiring, applauding, appreciative, approving, commendatory, complimentary, favorable, friendly, good
Words Related to positive

accepting, warm

encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, laudative, laudatory, panegyrical, praiseful

respectful, supportive, sympathetic

adoring, adulatory, idolizing, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping)

advisory, recommendatory
Near Antonyms of positive

captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), censuring, critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical

belittling, contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting
Antonyms of positive

adverse, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, disapproving, inappreciative, negative, unappreciative, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unflattering, unfriendly
2 having or showing a mind free from doubt
  • I'm positive that this is the right direction.
Synonyms of positive

assured, certain, clear, cocksure, confident, doubtless, implicit, sanguine, sure
Words Related to positive

self-assured, self-conceited, self-confident

decisive, resolute, unfaltering, unhesitating, unquestioning, unwavering
Near Antonyms of positive

hesitant, indecisive, vacillating, wavering

diffident, unassuming
Antonyms of positive

doubtful, dubious, uncertain, unsure
3 not capable of being challenged or proved wrong
  • seeks positive proof that ghosts exist
Synonyms of positive

accomplished, certain, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, sure, unanswerable, unarguable, unchallengeable, undeniable, unquestionable
Words Related to positive

unambiguous, unequivocal

absolute, clear, conclusive, decisive, definite, hands-down

uncontested, uncontradicted, undisputed, unquestioned
Near Antonyms of positive

controversial, debated, disputed

doubtful, dubious, iffy, inconclusive, indecisive, uncertain

ambiguous, equivocal

hypothetical, speculative, theoretical (also theoretic)
Antonyms of positive

answerable, arguable, contradictable, controvertible, debatable, disputable, doubtable, moot, negotiable, problematic (also problematical), questionable, refutable

Synonym Discussion of positive

sure, certain, positive, cocksure mean having no doubt or uncertainty. sure usually stresses the subjective or intuitive feeling of assurance.
    • felt sure that I had forgotten something
certain may apply to a basing of a conclusion or conviction on definite grounds or indubitable evidence.
    • police are certain about the cause of the fire
positive intensifies sureness or certainty and may imply opinionated conviction or forceful expression of it.
    • I'm positive that's the person I saw
cocksure implies presumptuous or careless positiveness.
    • you're always so cocksure about everything

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