positive
/ˈpɑzɪtɪv/ adjective B1- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Fully assured in opinion. · I’m absolutely positive you've spelt that wrong.
- Greater than zero.
- Greater than or equal to zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
From the library
“Yes,” replied Morcerf, “but that will plunge my mother into positive grief.”
Perhaps not the less so from feeling a doubt of my positive happiness had my fair cousin honoured me with her hand; for I have often observed, that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
Nothing less than the complaisance of a courtier could have borne without anger such treatment: but Sir William’s good-breeding carried him through it all; and though he begged leave to be positive as to the truth of his information, he listened to all their impertinence with the most forbearing courtesy.
“I pledge you my honor,” returned the count, “that I mean to do as I have said; both inclination and positive necessity compel me to visit Paris.”
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