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POSITIVE

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positive I. adjectiv

1. ferm, categoric, hotărât;

positive order ordin categoric.

2. pozitiv; afirmativ.

3. absolut, incomparabil.

4. (fam.) total, desăvârşit, complet;

a positive fool un idiot patentat.

5. sigur, neîndoios, categoric, neîndoielnic;

I am positive about it sunt absolut sigur (de asta).

6. sigur de sine.

7. (filoz.) pozitiv; empiric; pozitivist.

8. (mat.) pozitiv.

9. pozitiv; al progresului; de nădejde etc.

10. (electr., biol. etc.) pozitiv.

11. (gram.) pozitiv; la gradul pozitiv.

positive II. substantiv

1. însuşire pozitivă.

2. (fot.) pozitiv.

3. (gram.) (gradul) pozitiv.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Have you anything positive to tell him?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This full moon can also be positive for creating a business partnership.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

“Clara!” said Miss Murdstone, rising angrily, “you are a positive fool sometimes.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I must do THIS justice to Mr. Willoughby—he has broken no positive engagement with my sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

With their aid I am positive I could climb that detached pinnacle to the summit; but so long as the main cliff overhangs, it is vain to attempt ascending that.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, what do you know of matter, according to your own positive science?

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

She generally thought he would come, because she generally thought he ought; but it was a case which she could not so shape into any positive act of duty or discretion, as inevitably to defy the suggestions of very opposite feelings.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for doubt whether any positive crime has been committed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was there, it was on that day, that the general had made use of such expressions with regard to Henry and herself, had so spoken and so looked as to give her the most positive conviction of his actually wishing their marriage.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

They were the first entitled, after Mrs. Weston and Emma, to be made happy;—from them he would have proceeded to Miss Fairfax, but she was so deep in conversation with John Knightley, that it would have been too positive an interruption; and finding himself close to Mrs. Elton, and her attention disengaged, he necessarily began on the subject with her.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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