Positive
- Antonyms of POSITIVE
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conditional, limited, diffident, shy, hesitant, ambiguous, equivocal, questionable, dubious, disadvantageous, doubtful, negative, uncertain, unsure, academic, accountable, adverse, ambiguous, answerable, antagonistic, arguable, belittling, captious, carping, caviling, complaisant, compliant, conditional, constitutional, contemptuous, contingent, controversial, counter, critical, debatable, deniable, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, diffident, disadvantageous, disapproving, disconfirming, disdainful, disparaging, disputable, disputed, docile, doubtful, dubious, ductile, electronegative, electroneutral, equivocal, faultfinding, gentle, gram-negative, hesitant, humble, hypercritical, hypothetical, iffy, incertain, inconclusive, indecisive, informal, lenient, limited, lowly, meek, mild, minus, moot, negative, negotiable, neutral, neutralised, neutralized, overcritical, perverse, problematic, questionable, refutable, responsible, scornful, shy, slighting, speculative, submissive, theoretical, timid, unappreciative, unassuming, uncertain, uncharged, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unflattering, unfriendly, unsure, vacillating, viewless, wavering, yielding, Censuring, Debated, Doubtable, Contradictable, Controvertible, inappreciative.
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- At this time he said it will scarcely do to be positive on some things - "Ashton-Kirk, Investigator" by John T. McIntyre
- My orders are positive - "The Circular Staircase" by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- When I pressed him for an explanation he was unable to give any definite reasons except that he felt positive it could be done - "Edison, His Life and Inventions" by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
