positive

/ˈpɒzɪtɪv/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈpɒzɪtɪv/

positive

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

po - si - tive -> positive

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အပြုသဘောဆောင်သော။ အကောင်းဘက်မြင်သော။ တိုးတက်မှုရှိသော။ အပေါင်း လက္ခဏာပြသော။ တိကျပြတ်သားသော။ သုညထက်ကြီးသော (ကိန်း)။ (လျှပ်စစ်) အဖိုဓာတ်။ (n) အပြုသဘောဖြစ်ခြင်း

Full entry

positive /'pɒzǝtÇv/ adj

၁။ (က) အပြုသဘောဆောင်သော။ make positive proposals/suggestions ❍ have a positive approach ❍ Try to be more positive in dealing with the problem. (ခ) အကောင်းဘက်မြင်သော။ ယုံကြည်မှု ပြည့်ဝသော။ a positive attitude/feeling/response ❍ project a positive image ❍ We welcome this move, and feel very positive about it. ❍ positive thinking (ie a determined mental attitude that helps one achieve success).
(ဂ) တိုးတက်မှုရှိသော။ အပေါင်း လက္ခဏာပြသော။ positive aspects/factors/elements ❍ a positive growth rate ❍ There have been (some) positive developments in the crisis.
၂။ တိကျပြတ်သားသော။ positive instructions/orders ❍ make a positive commitment to sth ❍ We have no positive evidence of her involvement.
၃။ ~ (about sth/that…) သေချာသော။ Are you absolutely positive that it was after midnight? ❍ She was quite positive about the amount of money involved.
၄။ (ရှိမရှိ ဓာတ်ခွဲ စမ်းသပ်ကြည့်ရာတွင်) ဟုတ်သော၊ ရှိသော။ get a positive reaction ❍ be HIV-positive ❍ The tests proved positive. ❍ The athlete tested positive for steroids.
၅။ (infml ) တကယ့်ကို။ Her behaviour was a positive outrage. ❍ It was a positive miracle that we arrived on time.
၆။ တကယ့်ကို။ အမှန်ပင်။ On stage, short sight is a positive advantage.
၇။ (mathematics ) သုညထက်ကြီးသော (ကိန်း)။
၈။ (techn ) (လျှပ်စစ်) အဖိုဓာတ်။ a positive charge ❍ the positive terminal of a battery.
၉။ (grammar ) သာမန်အဆင့် (နာမဝိသေသန၊ ကြိယာဝိသေသန)။ See also PROTON Compare NEGATIVE
n
၁။ အပြုသဘောဖြစ်ခြင်း။ သေချာရေရာခြင်း။ မှန်ခြင်း။ ရှိခြင်း။
၂။ သုညထက်ကြီးသောကိန်း။
၃။ မူလပုံရိပ်အတိုင်း အလင်းအမှောင်ထင်သော ဓာတ်ပုံ။ နက်ဂတစ်မှ ကူးယူထားသော ဓာတ်ပုံ။
❏ positive discrimination n [U] (Brit ) လူမျိုးအရ အနှိမ်ခံ ရသူများကို တမင်တကာ ခွဲခြားအရေးပေးမှု။
❏ positively adv
၁။ ခိုင်မာစွာ။ အသေအချာ။ think positively ❍ Her attacker has now been positively identified by the police. ❍ ‘I won't hear of it’, she said positively. ❍ He has said that this will be positively his last appearance.
၂။ အမှန်ပင်။ တကယ်ပင်။ တကယ့်ကို။ She was positively glowing with excitement. ❍ Some diets may be positively dangerous.
❏ positive vetting n [U] (Brit ) နိုင်ငံ၏လျှို့ဝှက်ချက်များ ကို ကိုင်တွယ်ရသောတာဝန်မပေးမီ တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း ခံရမည့်သူ၏ နောက်ကြောင်းနှင့် ဓလေ့စရိုက်တို့ကို ခရေစေ့တွင်းကျစိစစ်ခြင်း။

More examples

[positive (that)] : Are you positive that there’s been no mistake?
[positive about/of] : We’d met before – I was positive about that.
We’ll make money from this deal – I’m positive of that.
A positive attitude
Try to think positive thoughts.
[positive about] : You have every reason to be positive about the future.
The experiment is working well and feedback is very positive.
We couldn’t be sure if her reaction would be positive.
School was a totally positive experience for me.
The positive aspects of parenthood are rarely written about.
[a positive result/outcome] : An initiative to help homeless people is showing positive results.
A positive role model
Students learn better in this positive environment.
The whole thing was a positive embarrassment.
You must be prepared to make a positive contribution to the business.
The indications are positive that this year’s festival will be a success.
A positive diagnosis
[test positive (for something)] : The runner was suspended for two years after he tested positive for drugs.

Synonyms

optimistic, constructive, helpful, encouraging, affirmative, activist, up, upbeat, Kodachrome, Kodak, Photostat, Polaroid, absolute, actual, assured, beneficial, categorical, certain, clear, clear-cut, close up, close-up, cocksure, cold, complete, conclusive, concrete, confident, confirmed, consummate, convinced, decided, decisive, definite, direct, downright, effective, efficacious, explicit, express, factual, firm, forceful, forcible, forward-looking, genuine, good, hard, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, microfilm, out-and-out, outright, perfect, photo, photograph, pic, pinup, pix, practical, productive, progressive, rank, real, reasonable, sound, specific, sure, thorough, thoroughgoing, unambiguous, undeniable, unequivocal, unmistakable, unmitigated, unquestionable, upside, useful

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