positive

positive
adj.
1 certain
VERBS
▪ be, seem, sound
ADVERB
▪ absolutely, quite (esp. BrE)
▪

I'm absolutely positive it was him.

▪ fairly
▪ almost (esp. AmE)
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪

She seemed fairly positive about it.

▪ of
▪

Are you positive of your facts?

2 hopeful and confident/encouraging
VERBS
▪ appear, be, feel, seem, sound
▪ remain
ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ highly, overwhelmingly
▪

He took a highly positive view of the matter.

▪ entirely, wholly
▪ moderately (AmE)
▪ generally
▪ apparently
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪

He sounded very positive about his chances.

3 showing that sth has happened/is present
VERBS
▪ be, prove, test
▪

The test proved positive.

ADVERB
▪ strongly, weakly (both technical)
PREPOSITION
▪ for
▪

He tested positive for HIV.

Positive is used with these nouns: ↑achievement, ↑act, ↑action, ↑advantage, ↑answer, ↑approach, ↑aspect, ↑association, ↑atmosphere, ↑attitude, ↑attribute, ↑balance, ↑benefit, ↑change, ↑comment, ↑connotation, ↑consequence, ↑contribution, ↑correlation, ↑coverage, ↑development, ↑diagnosis, ↑direction, ↑discrimination, ↑effect, ↑effort, ↑emotion, ↑encouragement, ↑energy, ↑evaluation, ↑evidence, ↑expectation, ↑experience, ↑fashion, ↑feedback, ↑feeling, ↑finding, ↑force, ↑idea, ↑identification, ↑image, ↑imagery, ↑impact, ↑impression, ↑improvement, ↑incentive, ↑indication, ↑inducement, ↑influence, ↑manner, ↑memory, ↑message, ↑mood, ↑motivation, ↑move, ↑news, ↑note, ↑number, ↑outcome, ↑outlook, ↑perception, ↑proof, ↑publicity, ↑quality, ↑reaction, ↑reception, ↑recognition, ↑recommendation, ↑reinforcement, ↑relationship, ↑reply, ↑report, ↑reputation, ↑response, ↑result, ↑return, ↑review, ↑role, ↑sense, ↑side, ↑side effect, ↑sign, ↑slant, ↑slope, ↑smear, ↑spin, ↑spin-off, ↑stance, ↑statement, ↑step, ↑stimulus, ↑suggestion, ↑test, ↑thing, ↑thinking, ↑thought, ↑trend, ↑view, ↑voltage

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