Adverse vs Positive - What's the difference?
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Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
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Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
(not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
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(legal) Formally laid down.
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Stated definitively and without qualification.
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Fully assured in opinion.
(mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
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Overconfident, dogmatic.
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(chiefly, philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
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(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.
(chemistry) electropositive
(chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
(slang) HIV positive.
(New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
A favourable point or characteristic.
Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
(grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
(photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
As an adjective adverse
is unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.As a noun positive is
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(wikipedia adverse)Adjective
(er)- adverse criticism
- Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
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- adverse circumstances.
- the adverse page
- the adverse party
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- Calpe's adverse height / must greet my sight
Usage notes
Adverse'' is sometimes confused with (averse), though the meanings are somewhat different. ''Adverse'' most often refers to things, denoting something that is in opposition to someone's interests — something one might refer to as an (adversity) or (adversary) — (''adverse winds''; ''an attitude adverse to our ideals''). ''Averse'' usually refers to people, and implies one has a distaste, disinclination, or (aversion) toward something (''a leader averse to war''; ''an investor averse to risk taking''). ''Averse'' is most often used with "''to''" in a construction like "''I am averse to…''". ''Adverse shows up less often in this type of construction, describing a person instead of a thing, and should carry a meaning of "actively opposed to" rather that "has an aversion to".Derived terms
* adversely * adversenessSee also
* averseAnagrams
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive , not so.
- Positive words, that he would not bear arms against King Edward’s son.
- I’m absolutely positive you've spelt that wrong.
- a positive voice in legislation.
- Some positive , persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always so.
- Positive good.
- A cation is a positive ion as it has more protons than electrons.
- ‘Better’ is an irregular comparative of the positive form ‘good’.
- The idea of beauty is not positive , but depends on the different tastes of individuals.
- The box was not empty – I felt some positive substance within it.
- The results of our experiment are positive .
- A positive photograph can be developed from a photographic negative.
- The first-night reviews were largely positive .
- Good lord, you've built up a positive arsenal of weaponry here.
- He has a positive outlook on life.
- 2009 , Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner , John Wiley & Sons,
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- Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive' energy... In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy). Being open systems, people can exchange this energy with the environment and create ' positive energy for taking action...
Antonyms
* (physics) negative * (mathematics) nonpositive * (doubtful) uncertain, unsure * (spiritual quality) bad, evil, nongoodDerived terms
* positivism * dipositive * positive crystal * positive degree * positive electricity * positive eyepiece * positive law * positively * positive motion * positive philosophy * positive pole * positive quantity * positive rotation * positive sign * positive contribution * tripositive * unipositiveNoun
(en noun)- (South)