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What is the adjective for positivist?

What's the adjective for positivist? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb positivize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

positive

Not negative or neutral
(law) Formally laid down. [from the 14th c.]
Stated definitively and without qualification. [from the 16th c.]
Fully assured in opinion. [from the 17th c.]
(mathematics) Of number, greater than zero. [from the 18th c.]
Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
Overconfident, dogmatic.
(philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
(physics) Having more protons than electrons.
(grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
(photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
Optimistic. [from the 20th c.]
(chemistry) electropositive
(chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
(slang) HIV positive.
(New Age) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
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Examples:

“I am positive that the new coach will impart knowledge and wisdom to our young athletes.”

“We had a positive response from the client, and will now move forward with the project.”

“The win will give the team a positive attitude for the week, but we still have plenty of hard work to do.”

positivist

related to positivism, positivistic

positivistic

Of or pertaining to positivism.
Examples:

“Characteristically the past is given in doxology, not in positivistic reportage.”

“And though the highly effective sniping of his so-called positivistic period continues, one feels a more comprehensive grasp of what he is moving towards.”

“The first, intentionally dry, title of my talk, is in parody of the sober, positivistic titles one got in the heyday of British structural functionalism.”

positiver

(nonstandard) comparative form of positive: more positive

positivest

(nonstandard) superlative form of positive: most positive

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