(adj): expecting the best
(adj): emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good
(adj): predicate), positive(predicate), confident(predicate) -- (persuaded of; very sure
(adj): predicate) (vs. uncertain), sure (vs. unsure) -- (having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
(adj): involving advantage or good
(adj): vs. disadvantageous) -- (giving an advantage
(adj): vs. negative), confirming -- (indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
(adj): (of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method
(adj): formally laid down or imposed
(adj): vs. informal) -- (being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
(adj): impossible to deny or disprove
(adj): vs. deniable) -- (not possible to deny
(adj): of or relating to positivism
(adj): vs. negative) -- (reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
(adj): greater than zero
(adj): vs. minus) -- (on the positive side or higher end of a scale
(adj): having a positive charge
(adj): vs. uncharged) -- (of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge
(adj): marked by excessive confidence
(adj): vs. diffident) -- (having or marked by confidence or assurance
(n): the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
(n): a word that expresses an attribute of something
(n): a word that modifies something other than a noun
(n): a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
(n): photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
