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positively

Word definitions for positively in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. extremely; "it was positively monumental" so as to be positive; in a positive manner; "she intended her remarks to be interpreted positively"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES react positively/negatively (= with positive/negative emotions or opinions ) ▪ We want versatile people who react positively to change. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE dangerous ▪ It is either tautologous, positively ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context manner English) In a positive manner. 2 (context modal English) With certainty. 3 (context degree English) very.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "in a definite way," from positive (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "absolutely" is from 1777.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Positively \Pos"i*tive*ly\, adv. In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively ...

Usage examples of positively.

Men have run amuck with their thoughts, and they do things that are positively criminal.

As for Aunt Prudence, if she had been a younger woman, Amy would have termed her expression positively coquettish!

The pneumatic sense, which is the only meaning borne by many passages, an assertion which neither Philo nor Clement ventured to make in plain terms, has with Origen a negatively apologetic and a positively didactic aim.

Not only was the ship clearly visible to the forces at El Arish, it had been positively identified by Israeli naval headquarters.

The Fortune Teller, painted by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in the late fifteen hundreds, more recently examined and positively authenticated by Monsieur Armand Lafitte.

The best security practice would be to deploy authentication tokens in combination with a shared secret to positively identify persons making requests.

The gross contradiction of the common doctrine of hell to the spirit of love is so obvious that its advocates, unable to deny or conceal it, have often positively proclaimed it, avowing that, in respect to the wicked, God is changed into a consuming fire full of hatred and vengeance.

The crowd realized what had happened more quickly than Ludo Bagman, and the roar became positively deafening.

However, I could not positively refuse my compliance, especially as Mrs Pawkie was requested by Bailie Kilsyth, and those who took an active part in furtherance of the ploy, to be the lady directress of the occasion.

She was all too obviously flesh and blood, and here he was in a situation where it would be positively caddish to show how he felt.

Lady Wondershoot, when she heard that this amazing child had positively burst out of its beautiful charity clothes, decided that she must speak to Caddles herself.

When Cor cracked out a sharp no, Xishi positively could not keep herself from looking up.

He was a constant courtier of the Countess Braun, the reigning beauty, and everyone believed his love had been crowned with success, though no one could assert as much positively.

I fancied that I had seen the end of it, and you may imagine how surprised I was when, upon my offering her the ten sequins, she refused most positively to take any money, making me understand that she would rather go with me to Parma, because she had some business in that city, and did not want to return to Rome.

I answered for your discretion, and of course I made him laugh by my being so positively the guarantee of a man whom I did not know.