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positively

adv
/ˈpɒz.ɪ.tɪv.li/UK/ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/US

Etymology

From Middle English positively, equivalent to positive + -ly.

  1. inherited from positively

Definitions

  1. In a positive manner.

    • He approached the interview positively.
    • There’s nothing – not. one. thing. – that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDSers.

  2. With certainty.

    • I will positively be there at 8 a.m.
    • The carriage nearly overturned, and he saw her eyes blaze at him, and she positively hissed, “I suppose you are enjoying this?”

  3. Absolutely

    Absolutely; utterly.

    • […] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do.
    • She talked and laughed and positively forgot until he had come in (just as she had imagined) that Pearl Fulton had not turned up.
    • "Positively do not open," reads the message under the cabinet in which Ed and Lorraine put the possessed Annabelle doll.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Very.

      • I had a positively wonderful time.

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Derived

absatively, absitively, absotively, nonpositively, photopositively, posilutely, positutely, posolutely

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at positively. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at positively. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at positively

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA