A Quick and Simple Dictionary

positive

1. Adjective.  (legal) Formally laid down. (defdate, from the 14th c.) .
2. Adjective.  Stated definitively and without qualification. (defdate, from the 16th c.) .
3. Adjective.  Fully assured in opinion. (defdate, from the 17th c.) .
4. Adjective.  (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero. (defdate, from the 18th c.) .
5. Adjective.  Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
6. Adjective.  Overconfident, dogmatic.
7. Adjective.  (chiefly, philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
8. Adjective.  (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
9. Adjective.  (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective or adverb; not comparative or superlative.
10. Adjective.  Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
11. Adjective.  Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
12. Adjective.  Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
13. Adjective.  (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
14. Adjective.  Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
15. Adjective.  Wholly what is expressed; ''colloquially'' downright, entire, outright.
16. Adjective.  Optimistic. (defdate, from the 20th c.) .
17. Adjective.  (slang) HIV positive.
18. Noun.  A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
19. Noun.  A favourable point or characteristic.
20. Noun.  Something having a '''positive''' value in physics, such as an electric charge.
21. Noun.  (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the '''positive''' degree.
22. Noun.  (context, photography) A '''positive''' image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.