positively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏzʹĭtĭvli
ipa: /ˈpɒz.ɪ.tɪv.li/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/
enpr: pŏzĭtĭv'li
ipa: /ˌpɒz.ɪˈtɪv.li/
ipa: /ˌpɑ.zɪˈtɪv.li/
Forms: form: more positively
form: most positively
Etymology: From Middle English positively, equivalent to positive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He approached the interview positively.
text: There’s nothing – not. one. thing. – that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDSers.
ref: 2018 July 20, Chris Cillizza, “What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ – and do you have it?”, in CNN:
topics: manner
glosses: In a positive manner.
examples: text: I will positively be there at 8 a.m.
text: The carriage nearly overturned, and he saw her eyes blaze at him, and she positively hissed, “I suppose you are enjoying this?”
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 277:
synonyms: word: categorically
word: decisively
word: definitely
word: assuredly
word: certainly
word: categorically
word: decisively
word: definitely
word: doubtless
word: doubtlessly
word: ex facie
word: fo shizzle
word: for a fact
word: for certain
word: for sure
word: indisputably
word: indubitably
word: positively
word: questionlessly
word: self-evidently
word: sure
word: surely
word: unarguably
word: undeniably
word: unconditionally
word: undoubtably
word: undoubtedly
word: unquestionably
word: univocally
word: without a doubt
word: without doubt
word: without question
glosses: With certainty.
examples: text: […] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do.
ref: 1915, Ernest Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense, page 118:
text: She talked and laughed and positively forgot until he had come in (just as she had imagined) that Pearl Fulton had not turned up.
ref: 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 127:
text: "Positively do not open," reads the message under the cabinet in which Ed and Lorraine put the possessed Annabelle doll.
ref: 2017 September 16, Hollywood, “Demonic possession, cries for help: Read the chilling true story behind the Conjuring’s creepy Annabelle doll”, in Hindustan Times:
synonyms: word: absolutely
word: all-out
word: all the way
word: altogether
word: at large
word: at length
word: cap-a-pie
word: categorically
word: completely
word: detailly
word: downright
word: entirely
word: exhaustively
word: finally
word: first and last
word: flat-out
word: flat out
word: from aardvark to zymurgy
word: from A to Z
word: from head to toe
word: from soup to nuts
word: from stem to stern
word: from the rooter to the tooter
word: from top to bottom
word: from top to toe
word: fully
word: handsomely
word: heartily
word: head to foot
word: head to tail
word: head to toe
word: hook
word: line
word: and sinker
word: in detail
word: in full
word: lock
word: stock
word: and barrel
word: one hundred percent
word: out-and-out
word: out and out
word: outright
word: particularly
word: perfectly
word: plumb
word: purely
word: quite
word: right
word: root and branch
word: soundly
word: soup-to-nuts
word: straight up
word: through and through
word: top to tail
word: top to toe
word: totally
word: totes
word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: to the full
word: utterly
word: well and truly
word: whole
word: whole cloth
word: wholly
glosses: Absolutely; utterly.
examples: text: I had a positively wonderful time.
text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: In the 90s it was Craigslist and AOL chat rooms, then Match.com and Kiss.com. But the lengthy, heartfelt e-mails exchanged by the main characters in You’ve Got Mail (1998) seem positively Victorian in comparison to the messages sent on the average dating app today.
ref: 2015, Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse””, in Vanity Fair:
synonyms: word: above a bit
word: absolutely
word: abundantly
word: all too
word: but good
word: completely
word: eminently
word: ever so
word: exceedingly
word: excessively
word: extremely
word: greatly
word: highly
word: in spades
word: main
word: mightily
word: murrain
word: passing
word: positively
word: pretty
word: quite
word: right
word: simply
word: sore
word: specially
word: strongly
word: swith
word: truly
word: vastly
word: very
word: very much
word: way
word: way too
word: wicked
qualifier: degree
glosses: Very.
Derived terms: absatively
absitively
absotively
nonpositively
photopositively
posilutely
positutely
posolutely
Related terms: absitively posolutely