Positive is an English word with synonyms like negative or confident. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Positive meaning
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
Synonyms of Positive
Using Positive
- The main meaning on this page is: Included, present, characterized by affirmation. | Formally laid down. | Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Useful related words include: negative, confident, plus, neutral.
- In the example corpus, positive often appears in combinations such as: tested positive, positive for, positive cases.
Context around Positive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 13 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Positive
- In this selection, "positive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tested, constant, smallest, curvature, cases and moment stand out and add context to how "positive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2021 to positive 42 now, a modest positive for equity, tested positive, positive cases and test positive. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "positive" sits close to words such as british, bill and december, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with positive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Chetty said the positive was that South Africa’s national assessment data from the Elna) showed positive growth points. (19 words)
Generally, the top ten have been producing some positive results, which reflects the slightly positive performance the fund has experienced this year. (22 words)
Its latest Consumer Insight survey found trust in supermarkets among shoppers had fallen from positive 67 in May 2021 to positive 42 now. (23 words)
It looks like the good performance is going to continue, so it is very likely that a positive net EPS will be achieved in the first or second quarter of 2024, which would make Pagaya generate positive net profits for the first time. (43 words)
The Bayes factor when an individual tests positive is in favour of being a drug-user: this is the ratio of the probability of a drug-user testing positive, to the probability of a non-drug user testing positive. (39 words)
Other schools within our trust successfully used Yondr during the last academic year and having spoken to them about the positive impact on student learning and outcomes, we are confident Yondr will have a positive impact here as well. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Similarly, Panna which had not reported any positive case on Tuesday, reported 10 positive cases and Damoh, which had reported 10 positive cases, reported 30 cases.
By historical convention, a positive current is defined as having the same direction of flow as any positive charge it contains, or to flow from the most positive part of a circuit to the most negative part.
Constant positive curvature: A Möbius band of constant positive curvature cannot be complete, since it is known that the only complete surfaces of constant positive curvature are the sphere and the projective plane.
However, Earnshaw's theorem only applies to objects with positive susceptibilities, such as ferromagnets (which have a permanent positive moment) and paramagnets (which induce a positive moment).
If there are positive integers that satisfy a given property, then there is a smallest positive integer that satisfies that property; therefore, there is a smallest positive integer satisfying the property "not definable in under sixty letters".
The Bayes factor when an individual tests positive is in favour of being a drug-user: this is the ratio of the probability of a drug-user testing positive, to the probability of a non-drug user testing positive.
Active Covid status was given to those who tested positive within two days of organ procurement and recently resolved Covid status was given to those who tested positive initially but became negative prior to procurement.
And that, by default, is a positive because it means that maybe any positive news is going to be a super boost, when, actually, something good happens.
Appisfree’s app listings have a mix of positive and negative feedback, making it seem more authentic than sites plastered with universally positive, generic comments.
As a result, it’s a modest positive for equity markets at the index level but incrementally more positive for areas such as weak balance sheet stocks, small cap and perhaps cyclicals.
Chetty said the positive was that South Africa’s national assessment data from the Elna) showed positive growth points.
Despite a tough backdrop, trading remains strong and the company’s positive momentum continues, with recent acquisitions making a positive contribution to the bottom line.
Elsewhere, President Nikos Christodoulides laid out his approach on the Cyprus issue, consisting of “cultivating a positive agenda and a positive climate”, during the first National Council session held under his administration.
Generally, the top ten have been producing some positive results, which reflects the slightly positive performance the fund has experienced this year.
It also shows that the 34th percentile marks the positive return point, which aligns with the positive return outcome probability of 66.20% given earlier.
It looks like the good performance is going to continue, so it is very likely that a positive net EPS will be achieved in the first or second quarter of 2024, which would make Pagaya generate positive net profits for the first time.
Its latest Consumer Insight survey found trust in supermarkets among shoppers had fallen from positive 67 in May 2021 to positive 42 now.
I will make a quick point here and that is the CRL had, although, of course, the disappointment of being a CRL, but had two positive indicators in it as well or two significant positive indicators.
Other Government ministers are known to have tested positive for the virus including Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Ayanna Webster-Roy, who tested positive in September 2021.
Other schools within our trust successfully used Yondr during the last academic year and having spoken to them about the positive impact on student learning and outcomes, we are confident Yondr will have a positive impact here as well.
Phrases with positive
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with positive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: