positive
A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or…A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
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Meaning
8 sensesA positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
Positiv, Positivfilm
позити́вpozitív
A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
Grundstufe, Positiv, Positivus
положи́тельная сте́пеньpoložítelʹnaja stépenʹ
the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
A favourable point or characteristic.
Not a bad situation when we weigh all the positives.
Positives, gute Seite, Vorteil
More meanings 5
A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
A positive result of a test.
Origin
From Old French positif, from Latin positivus, from the past participle stem of ponere (“tFrom Old French positif, from Latin positivus, from the past participle stem of ponere (“to place”). Compare posit.
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Forms
plural: positivesSynonyms
1 synonyms- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution:positive degree
Antonyms
1 antonymsSee also
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