positive | Definition of positive

Synonyms and Antonyms of positive

1 expressing approval

hoped for a positive reaction from the audience

Synonyms of positive

admiring, applauding, appreciative, approbatory, approving, commendatory, complimentary, favorable, friendly, good

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accepting, warm

encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, hagiographic (also hagiographical), 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

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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 UFO's exist

Synonyms of positive

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

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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

academic (also academical), hypothetical, speculative, theoretical (also theoretic)

Antonyms of positive

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