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positive

adjective
  1. Of a constructive nature: affirmative. Informal: upbeat. See help
  2. Giving assent: affirmative, favorable. See affirm
  3. Clearly, fully, and sometimes emphatically expressed: categorical, clear, clear-cut, decided, definite, explicit, express, precise, specific, unambiguous, unequivocal. See clear
  4. Established beyond a doubt: certain, hard, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, sure, unassailable, undeniable, undisputable, unquestionable. See certain, true
  5. Known positively: certain, definite, sure. Idiom: for certain. See certain
  6. Having no doubt: assured, certain, confident, sure, undoubting. See certain
  7. Informal. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer 2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter 2. Informal: flat-out. Chiefly British: blooming. See big, limited

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