1 | adjective | characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc 2 | adjective | persuaded of; very sure 3 | adjective | involving advantage or good 4 | adjective | indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen 5 | adjective | formally laid down or imposed 6 | adjective | impossible to deny or disprove 7 | adjective | of or relating to positivism 8 | adjective | reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion (13 meanings)

p'ozuhtiv (IPA: pˈɒzətɪv)

pos-i-tive (8 letters | 3 syllables)

1300 (High Middle ages) (725 years ago)

Old French | Latin

written: 1188th most common (1 in 11628 words) ( > 99% adjective | 0% noun)

spoken: 1040th most common (1 in 16129 words)

(includes some inflected forms)

positiver | positivest | positives

confident | convinced | plus | confirming | prescribed | incontrovertible | irrefutable | positivist | positivistic | electropositive | positively charged | cocksure | overconfident | positive degree (total: 14)

negative | neutral

adjective | adverb | film | photographic film (total: 4)

causative (based on typical American pronunciation)

appositive | positing | position | positively | punitive (total: 5)

(none among common words)

Gram-positive | positive charge | positive chemotaxis | positive correlation | positive degree | positive feedback | positive fraud | positive identification | positive magnetic pole | positive muon | ... (total: 17)

The Power of Positive Thinking (Norman Vincent Peale)

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100% sure (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

13 (International English) | 13 (North American English)