Phrase Hound found 102 phrases and 48 compound words that contain positive. The most common are listed below. Open positive in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 102
- positive feedbackA situation where some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to increase any divergence of the output from its initial value.
- false positiveA result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.
- positive number
- positive reinforcementThe giving of encouragement to a person who exhibits a particular behaviour with the result that such behaviour is repeated.
- positive thinkingFocusing on thoughts of success, as a strategy for achievement.
- Positive Attitude
- positive lawLaw explicitly made, as compared to natural law; law prescribed by express enactment or institution.
- nature-positiveA global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and achieve full nature recovery by 2050.
- Positive integer
- positive-definiteSaid of a real, square matrix: that the product of it with a column vector on its right side and the transpose of that column vector on its left side is greater or equal to zero, only equaling zero if the vector itself is zero.
- sex-positiveViewing sexual activity as fundamentally beneficial and healthy; (in particular) supportive of personal autonomy and rights in relation to sex (including consensual kinky sex, queer sex, or sex work).
- HIV positiveInfected by HIV.
- Positive response
- positive degreeThat state of an adjective or adverb indicating simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as in wise, noble.
- positive actionA form of affirmative action that attempts to assist members of an underrepresented group without prejudicing the criteria of selection by merit.
- positive controlThe air traffic control practice of controlling aircraft whose positions are determined by direct radar observation.
- body-positiveExhibiting or relating to body positivity.
- Positive correlation
- Something Positive
- Positive relationship
- Positive result
- Positive Energy
- positive economicsThe branch of economics that concerns the description and explanation of economic phenomena and their causal relationships
- positive educationAn educational approach rooted in positive psychology, prioritizing individual strengths and personal motivation to foster learning.
- positive numbersplural of positive number
Compound words 48
- positivelyIn a positive manner.
- positronThe antimatter equivalent of an electron, having the same mass but a positive charge.
- positivistA believer in positivism.
- semipositivePartially positive in attitude etc.
- pawsitiveAlternative form of positive, used in situations involving pets such as cats and dogs.
- positoneof a particular kind of eigenvalue problem involving a nonlinear function on the reals that is continuous, positive, and monotone.
- unpositiveNot positive; negative.
- dipositiveCarrying two units of positive charge.
- immunofluoropositiveShowing a positive reaction to immunofluorescence
- positivizeTo make positive, or to emphasize a positive aspect