Synonyms for Positive:

• adj.

  •Panglossian (adjective)
  • looking the bright side,
  • looking bright side,
  • looking through rosecolored glasses,
  • looking through rose colored glasses.
  •absolute (adjective)
  • exact,
  • conclusive,
  • unequivocal,
  • utter,
  • absolute,
  • unmitigated,
  • supreme,
  • fixed,
  • perfect,
  • unrestricted,
  • positive.
  •accepted (adjective)
  • undisputed.
  •actual (adjective)
  • confirmed,
  • physical,
  • realistic,
  • honest to god,
  • truthful,
  • honest injun,
  • substantive,
  • verified,
  • authentic.
  •affirmative (adjective)
  • assertive,
  • Endorsing,
  • concurring,
  • declarative,
  • insistent,
  • complying,
  • acquiescent,
  • Affirming,
  • supporting,
  • predicative,
  • confirmative,
  • Ratifying,
  • confirming,
  • consenting,
  • affirmatory,
  • corroborative,
  • confirmatory,
  • approving,
  • Acknowledging.
  •assertive (adjective)
  • domineering,
  • forward,
  • militant,
  • strong-willed,
  • pushy,
  • self-confident,
  • overbearing,
  • self-assured,
  • demanding.
  •assured (adjective)
  • collected,
  • poised,
  • composed,
  • self-possessed,
  • gutsy,
  • gung ho,
  • cool,
  • imperturbable,
  • overconfident,
  • complacent,
  • brazen,
  • unhesitating,
  • bold,
  • unflappable,
  • rosy,
  • puffed up,
  • secure,
  • audacious.
  •believing (adjective)
  • most accepting,
  • having faith,
  • more accepting.
  •beyond doubt (adjective)
  • indisputable.
  •beyond question (adjective)
  • irrefutable.
  •categorical (adjective)
  • clear cut,
  • no strings attached,
  • definitive,
  • ultimate,
  • forthright,
  • straight out,
  • no holds barred,
  • all out.
  •certain (adjective)
  • doubtless,
  • known,
  • sure thing,
  • trustworthy,
  • accurate,
  • unconcerned,
  • convinced,
  • believing,
  • patent,
  • trusting,
  • veritable,
  • in the bag,
  • on ice,
  • salted away,
  • untroubled,
  • incontestable,
  • evident,
  • undoubted,
  • authoritative,
  • destined,
  • set,
  • undisturbed,
  • unerring,
  • ascertained,
  • verifiable,
  • Undoubtful,
  • predestined,
  • SAFER,
  • guaranteed,
  • safest,
  • confirmable,
  • provable,
  • having down pat,
  • Questionless,
  • safe,
  • establishable,
  • determined,
  • steadfast,
  • unperturbed.
  •clear (adjective)
  • most resolved,
  • more resolved,
  • re-solved,
  • re solved.
  •cocky (adjective)
  • more hotdogger,
  • most hotdogger.
  •cocky/cocksure (adjective)
  • swollen-headed,
  • more hubristic,
  • smartiest,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • over-weening,
  • over weening,
  • more hotdogging,
  • more hotshot,
  • more know it all,
  • more swollen-headed,
  • most swaggering,
  • most swollen-headed,
  • most know-it-all,
  • smartier,
  • most hotdogging,
  • swollenheaded,
  • most know it all,
  • more know-it-all,
  • swollen headed,
  • know it all,
  • most hotshot,
  • hubristic,
  • more swaggering,
  • smarty pants,
  • more swollenheaded,
  • more swollen headed,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • most hubristic,
  • overweening,
  • most swollen headed,
  • most swollenheaded.
  •commendatory (adjective)
  • more praising,
  • more applauding,
  • most praising,
  • most applauding.
  •complete (adjective)
  • out and out.
  •confident (adjective)
  • self reliant,
  • in trepid,
  • more racked,
  • most intrepid,
  • up-pity,
  • Racked,
  • fearless,
  • in-trepid,
  • selfreliant,
  • selfsufficient,
  • un daunted,
  • un afraid,
  • un-afraid,
  • up pity,
  • un-daunted,
  • most racked,
  • self sufficient.
  •constructive (adjective)
  • most valuable.
  •consummate (adjective)
  • in imitable,
  • most ideal,
  • more transcendent,
  • more talented,
  • ripe,
  • most virtuosic,
  • matchless,
  • in-imitable,
  • more virtuosic,
  • un surpassable,
  • more skilled,
  • un-surpassable.
  •decided (adjective)
  • more cinched,
  • un-wavering,
  • un yielding,
  • most strong-minded,
  • pre-determined,
  • ironjawed,
  • strongminded,
  • in-flexible,
  • un wavering,
  • more strong minded,
  • strong minded,
  • more strong-minded,
  • iron jawed,
  • pre arranged,
  • most ironjawed,
  • re-solute,
  • more prearranged,
  • re solute,
  • de liberate,
  • pre-arranged,
  • un-bending,
  • un faltering,
  • most nailed,
  • un-alterable,
  • more strongminded,
  • most prearranged,
  • most cinched,
  • most strongminded,
  • un-faltering,
  • fated,
  • iron-jawed,
  • more iron jawed,
  • most iron-jawed,
  • most clinched,
  • in flexible,
  • most strong minded,
  • more iron-jawed,
  • most iron jawed,
  • more ironjawed,
  • more pronounced,
  • more clinched,
  • un-yielding,
  • de-liberate,
  • more nailed,
  • in tent,
  • un alterable,
  • un bending,
  • pre determined.
  •decisive (adjective)
  • final,
  • litmus test.
  •definite (adjective)
  • cleancut,
  • more silhouetted,
  • well grounded,
  • most well marked,
  • more well marked,
  • wellgrounded,
  • more wellmarked,
  • more undubitable,
  • Undubitable,
  • un-dubitable,
  • well defined,
  • most undubitable,
  • welldefined,
  • well-marked,
  • most well-marked,
  • obvious,
  • more well-marked,
  • ringing,
  • wellmarked,
  • un dubitable,
  • most wellmarked,
  • most silhouetted,
  • well marked,
  • clean cut,
  • de finite,
  • most obvious,
  • de-finite.
  •demonstrable (adjective)
  • Evincible,
  • ascertainable,
  • attestable,
  • Inferable.
  •dogmatic (adjective)
  • in evitable,
  • more reasoned,
  • in-evitable,
  • most excathedra,
  • most reasoned,
  • as matter course,
  • eternal,
  • more deductive,
  • un-changeable,
  • most doctrinal,
  • more doctrinal,
  • as a matter course,
  • most deductive,
  • as matter of course,
  • un changeable,
  • more excathedra.
  •downright (adjective)
  • most undisguised,
  • more undisguised,
  • un-disguised,
  • un disguised.
  •electrical (adjective)
  • conductive,
  • technical,
  • magnetic,
  • electronic,
  • electromagnetic,
  • inductive,
  • electrical.
  •emphatic (adjective)
  • re sounding,
  • more telling,
  • re-sounding,
  • more accented,
  • resounding,
  • most stressed,
  • most accented,
  • more stressed,
  • most telling,
  • for face.
  •explicit (adjective)
  • more understandable,
  • outspoken,
  • out-spoken,
  • out spoken.
  •factual (adjective)
  • more card-carrying,
  • more sure-enough,
  • straight from horse mouth,
  • most sure-enough,
  • more true to life,
  • un adorned,
  • most card carrying,
  • more sureenough,
  • cardcarrying,
  • on level,
  • un-adorned,
  • most sure enough,
  • sureenough,
  • card carrying,
  • most sureenough,
  • righteous,
  • more true-to-life,
  • unadorned,
  • un biased,
  • most true-to-life,
  • most true to life,
  • most cardcarrying,
  • straight from horses mouth,
  • more card carrying,
  • more cardcarrying,
  • most card-carrying,
  • more sure enough.
  •favorable (adjective)
  • more well disposed,
  • most assenting,
  • more well-intentioned,
  • more wellintentioned,
  • well disposed,
  • most well disposed,
  • more welldisposed,
  • most welldisposed,
  • most praiseful,
  • under standing,
  • more reassuring,
  • most wellintentioned,
  • more praiseful,
  • pre-disposed,
  • most reassuring,
  • most well intentioned,
  • more supportive,
  • re-commendatory,
  • more approbative,
  • more well intentioned,
  • well intentioned,
  • welldisposed,
  • most recommendatory,
  • more understanding,
  • most well-disposed,
  • re assuring,
  • wellintentioned,
  • more recommendatory,
  • pre disposed,
  • most commending,
  • re commendatory,
  • most approbative,
  • most well-intentioned,
  • more assenting,
  • more commending,
  • more well-disposed,
  • under-standing,
  • re-assuring.
  •genuine (adjective)
  • more authenticated,
  • more certified,
  • un-pretended,
  • most well-established,
  • un feigned,
  • more -carat,
  • un-adulterated,
  • well-established,
  • un-impeachable,
  • more wellestablished,
  • un varnished,
  • most -carat,
  • honest to goodness,
  • un adulterated,
  • most unalloyed,
  • un pretended,
  • more unpretended,
  • un impeachable,
  • honest-to-goodness,
  • un designing,
  • well established,
  • un-feigned,
  • most undesigning,
  • un-varnished,
  • most authenticated,
  • most unpretended,
  • most carat,
  • most wellestablished,
  • wellestablished,
  • honest-to-god,
  • in flesh,
  • more honest to goodness,
  • most honest-to-goodness,
  • most certified,
  • real stuff,
  • most well established,
  • more honest-to-goodness,
  • most honest to goodness,
  • more unalloyed,
  • more well established,
  • more carat,
  • more well-established,
  • in the flesh,
  • more undesigning,
  • Undesigning,
  • un-alloyed,
  • un-designing,
  • un alloyed.
  •good (adjective)
  • recherche,
  • Supereminent,
  • unmarred,
  • bullier,
  • Superexcellent,
  • super-eminent,
  • up to snuff,
  • first class,
  • tip top,
  • super-excellent,
  • reputable,
  • firstclass,
  • tip-top,
  • rad.
  •great (adjective)
  • fabbest,
  • most superduper,
  • fabber,
  • greater,
  • more surpassing,
  • more superduper,
  • more hellacious,
  • out sight,
  • most super-duper,
  • out of world,
  • most hellacious,
  • super duper,
  • hellacious,
  • out this world,
  • out world,
  • more dynamite,
  • most super duper,
  • out of sight,
  • sur-passing,
  • sur passing,
  • most dynamite,
  • more super-duper,
  • more super duper,
  • most surpassing.
  •hard (adjective)
  • harder.
  •honest-to-God (adjective)
  • more really truly,
  • really truly,
  • most reallytruly,
  • most really-truly,
  • more sure thing,
  • more reallytruly,
  • no buts it,
  • surething,
  • most surething,
  • more for sure,
  • most for-sure,
  • more really-truly,
  • most forsure,
  • more surething,
  • most sure-thing,
  • more sure-thing,
  • most sure thing,
  • most really truly,
  • most for sure,
  • reallytruly,
  • more forsure,
  • more for-sure,
  • forsure.
  •incontestable (adjective)
  • in contestable,
  • in-contestable.
  •incontrovertible (adjective)
  • in controvertible,
  • no two ways it,
  • nailed down,
  • most uncontestable,
  • most unequivocable,
  • more unequivocable,
  • unequivocable,
  • un-contestable,
  • un-shakable,
  • more uncontestable,
  • in-controvertible,
  • un contestable,
  • un shakable.
  •indisputable (adjective)
  • veridical,
  • un fabled,
  • more unfabled,
  • that's fact,
  • most double-checked,
  • most doublechecked,
  • open shut,
  • more double checked,
  • thats fact,
  • no ifs ands buts it,
  • most double checked,
  • that a fact,
  • in disputable,
  • thats a fact,
  • most unfabled,
  • no ifs ands buts about it,
  • in-disputable,
  • more doublechecked,
  • un-fabled,
  • more double-checked,
  • no ifs ands or buts it,
  • doublechecked.
  •indubitable (adjective)
  • in dubitable,
  • in-dubitable.
  •infallible (adjective)
  • inerrable,
  • apodictic,
  • Undeceivable,
  • inerrant.
  •irrefutable (adjective)
  • more irrebuttable,
  • irresistible,
  • most oddson,
  • most odds-on,
  • more odds-on,
  • more odds on,
  • oddson,
  • un-answerable,
  • nof ifs ands buts,
  • can bet it,
  • most irrebuttable,
  • more irrefragable,
  • most irrefragable,
  • more proven,
  • most unanswerable,
  • more oddson,
  • most proven,
  • most odds on,
  • more unanswerable,
  • un answerable,
  • in-vincible,
  • in vincible,
  • proven.
  •official (adjective)
  • ex officio,
  • more cathedral,
  • re cognized,
  • re-cognized,
  • most cathedral.
  •opinionated (adjective)
  • opinionated,
  • set on,
  • tilted,
  • hard line,
  • seton,
  • highhanded,
  • set-on,
  • set in stone,
  • locked in,
  • singleminded,
  • hardline,
  • weighted,
  • self-assertive,
  • high-handed.
  •optimistic (adjective)
  • on top world,
  • keeping faith,
  • ray sunshine,
  • ray of sunshine.
  •oracular (adjective)
  • Predicting,
  • portentous,
  • sibylline.
  •outright (adjective)
  • out right,
  • out-rightest,
  • out rightest,
  • out righter,
  • out-right,
  • out-righter.
  •peremptory (adjective)
  • in-tolerant,
  • peremptory,
  • in tolerant.
  •perfect (adjective)
  • unmixed,
  • Choate.
  •positive (adjective)
  • express,
  • productive,
  • firm,
  • sound,
  • thorough,
  • effective,
  • beneficial,
  • forceful,
  • useful,
  • reasonable,
  • forcible,
  • direct,
  • progressive,
  • efficacious,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • practical.
  •purposeful (adjective)
  • in-tensest,
  • most telelogical,
  • more purposive,
  • tele-logical,
  • un deviating,
  • in-tense,
  • in tense,
  • more telelogical,
  • playing hard ball,
  • tele logical,
  • more undeviating,
  • in tenser,
  • most undeviating,
  • in-tenser,
  • un-deviating,
  • most purposive.
  •rank (adjective)
  • out-standing,
  • out standing.
  •real (adjective)
  • more embodied,
  • most embodied,
  • pre-sent,
  • un affected,
  • pre sent.
  •reliable (adjective)
  • predictable,
  • True-hearted,
  • truehearted,
  • incorrupt,
  • high-principled,
  • there,
  • true-blue.
  •rose-colored (adjective)
  • rose colored,
  • rosecolored.
  •satisfied (adjective)
  • sated,
  • satiated.
  •self-assured (adjective)
  • cocky,
  • sure oneself,
  • selfassured,
  • full oneself,
  • sure of oneself,
  • self assured,
  • full of oneself.
  •substantial (adjective)
  • twenty-four-carat.
  •sure (adjective)
  • more never-failing,
  • un-varying,
  • most doubtless,
  • un changing,
  • un questioning,
  • more neverfailing,
  • for fact,
  • un-shaken,
  • un varying,
  • un shaken,
  • most never failing,
  • un-questioning,
  • most neverfailing,
  • never failing,
  • more doubtless,
  • neverfailing,
  • most never-failing,
  • more never failing,
  • un-changing.
  •tangible (adjective)
  • most incarnated,
  • touchable,
  • more incarnated.
  •total (adjective)
  • full blown,
  • allout,
  • un restricted,
  • un-restricted,
  • every,
  • un-divided,
  • un divided,
  • full scale,
  • fullblown,
  • un-limited,
  • fullscale.
  •unconditional (adjective)
  • de terminate,
  • un-conditional,
  • un constrained,
  • no ifs ands buts,
  • no fine print,
  • un conditional,
  • de-terminate.
  •unconditioned (adjective)
  • un conditioned,
  • un-conditioned.
  •undeniable (adjective)
  • no ifs and buts,
  • no ifs buts,
  • un deniable,
  • un-deniable,
  • no ifs or buts.
  •undisputable (adjective)
  • un disputable,
  • un-disputable.
  •undisputed (adjective)
  • uncontested,
  • unchallenged,
  • not disputed,
  • unquestioned.
  •undoubted (adjective)
  • un doubted,
  • un-doubted.
  •undoubting (adjective)
  • un doubting,
  • un-doubting.
  •unmarred (adjective)
  • uninjured,
  • un injured,
  • un hurt,
  • most uninjured,
  • un harmed,
  • more uninjured,
  • un-marred,
  • un-hurt,
  • un-injured,
  • in-tact,
  • in tact,
  • un marred,
  • un-harmed.
  •unmistakable (adjective)
  • most univocal,
  • more univocal,
  • un mistakable,
  • uni-vocal,
  • self-explanatory,
  • un-mistakable,
  • trans-parent,
  • self explanatory,
  • selfexplanatory,
  • uni vocal,
  • trans parent.
  •unqualified (adjective)
  • un-restrained,
  • un qualified,
  • un-qualified.
  •unquestionable (adjective)
  • well-founded,
  • un questionable,
  • wellfounded,
  • well founded,
  • un-questionable.
  •upbeat (adjective)
  • up-beat,
  • up beat.

• n.

  •
  • arc,
  • active,
  • brownout,
  • arc light.
  •
  • clearly,
  • certainly,
  • literally,
  • surely,
  • actually,
  • precisely,
  • honestly,
  • essentially,
  • evidently,
  • simply,
  • help.
  •
  • affirm,
  • asset,
  • benefit,
  • virtue,
  • incentive,
  • trump card,
  • edge,
  • privilege,
  • advantage.
  •
  • commemorative,
  • attempted,
  • limp,
  • face saving,
  • amateur,
  • maiden,
  • lamely,
  • desperate,
  • hostile,
  • true,
  • lame.
  •
  • indivisible,
  • divisible,
  • annualized,
  • calculable,
  • average,
  • even,
  • double digit,
  • decimal,
  • hexadecimal,
  • binary.
  •
  • arithmetic progression,
  • base,
  • coefficient,
  • common factor,
  • computation,
  • cube root,
  • common multiple,
  • cube,
  • Arabic Numeral.
  •
  • unfalteringly.
  •
  • CAT scan,
  • cervical smear,
  • CT-SCAN,
  • biopsy,
  • amniocentesis,
  • checkup,
  • check,
  • blood test,
  • diagnosis,
  • autopsy.
  •
  • exhilarating,
  • heartwarming,
  • joyful,
  • life-affirming,
  • pleasing,
  • uplifting,
  • joyous,
  • satisfying,
  • cheerful.
  •
  • bullish,
  • hopeful,
  • visionary,
  • in the fond hope that,
  • romantic.
  •
  • photo CD,
  • photogenic,
  • photo shoot,
  • halftone,
  • candid,
  • black and white,
  • photographic,
  • photo opportunity,
  • camera-shy,
  • grainy.
  •advantageous (noun)
  • advantageous.
  •communication (noun)
  • positive degree.
  •definite (noun)
  • concrete.
  •electropositive (noun)
  • electropositive.
  •emphatic (noun)
  • obstinate,
  • resolute.
  •formal (noun)
  • formal.
  •photograph (noun)
  • micro film,
  • micro films,
  • micro-film,
  • polaroids,
  • micro-films,
  • pixes,
  • kodachromes,
  • pinups,
  • close ups.
  •positivist (noun)
  • positivist.
  •positivistic (noun)
  • positivistic.
  •prescribed (noun)
  • prescribed.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • cardiovascular,
  • circulatory,
  • hopefully,
  • arrant,
  • venous,
  • uplifted,
  • professed,
  • unfaltering,
  • satisfied,
  • supportive,
  • inarguable,
  • undoubting,
  • unquestioning,
  • forward-looking,
  • overoptimistic,
  • idealistic,
  • assuredly,
  • crashing,
  • cardiac,
  • sympathetic,
  • undisputable,
  • arterial,
  • vascular,
  • unrelieved,
  • doctrinaire.
  •
  • engraving,
  • pro,
  • explicit,
  • unambiguous,
  • unassailable,
  • coronary,
  • attached,
  • film,
  • With,
  • trenchant,
  • out-and-out,
  • behind,
  • specific,
  • decidedly,
  • upbeat,
  • precise.
  •
  • all-out,
  • unlimited,
  • positively,
  • flat out,
  • pure,
  • unbounded.
  •
  • blooming,
  • clear-cut.
  •
  • damned,
  • side.
  •
  • unreserved.
  •
  • dead.
  •
  • flat.
  •
  • plain.
  •fanatic
  • fanatical.

Paraphrases for Positive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    affirmative, supportive, propitious, favourable, favorable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    affirmative, supportive, favorable.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    affirmative, favourable.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    positives.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    hiv-positive.
  • Proper noun, singular
    positively.
  • Adverb
    positively.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    encouraging, welcome, seropositive, pro-active, upbeat, advantageous, productive, positive-sum, useful, gas-positive, enthusiastic, effective, virtuous, sympathetic, helpful, benign, meaningful, excellent, commendable, fruitful, gratifying, energetic, favourably, promising, conclusive, assertive, substantive, healthy, salutary, worthwhile, correct, significant, right, strong, auspicious, nice, permissive, progressive, pleasant, fortunate, responsive, intensive, praiseworthy, definitive, bright, valuable, practical, important, interesting, appreciative, receptive, happy, enterprising, categorical, pleased, active, desirable, hopeful, pleasing, attractive, definite, tangible, heartening, improvements, convinced, rewarding, preferential, confident, certain, valid, improved.
  • Proper noun, singular
    benefits, favourable, active.
  • Noun, plural
    POS, successes, Gains, pros, banners, benefits, improvements.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    positivity, active, pleasing, success.
  • Adverb
    favourably, favourable.
  • Verb, past tense
    welcomed, Helped, Had, Was, Were.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    encouraging.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    supports, represents, welcomes, Has, regards, pleases, Does, benefits.

Antonyms for Positive:

• adj.

  • absolute
    dependent, conditional, partial, limited.
  • actual
    counterfeit, unreal, pretended, imaginary, fictitious, legendary, false.
  • affirmative
    dissenting.
  • all
    negative, neutral.
  • assertive
    quiet, diffident, unconfident, shy.
  • assured
    confused, nervous, hesitant, doubting, distrustful, fearful, dismayed.
  • categorical
    uncategorical, tentative, ambiguous, implied, equivocal, vague, questionable, qualified.
  • certain
    unreliable, dubious, faltering.
  • positive
    disadvantageous, unsure, indefinite, doubtful, uncertain, unhelpful.
  • Other antonyms:
    contingent, Contradictable, submissive, disapproving, critical, constitutional, carping, lenient, caviling, humble, disputable, informal, complaisant, accountable, gentle, speculative, inconclusive, deniable, overcritical, responsible, inappreciative, indecisive, minus, faultfinding, yielding, disputed, wavering, mild, compliant, moot, uncharged, timid, academic, unflattering, unassuming, ductile, meek, incertain, hypercritical, docile, theoretical, captious, answerable, vacillating, controversial, gram-negative, lowly, refutable, iffy, hypothetical, unappreciative.

Holonyms for Positive:

• n.

  • artifact
    lantern slide, slide.

Hyponym for Positive:

• n.

  • artifact
    film, photographic film.
  • communication
    adjective, adverb.