Controlled vs Positive - What's the difference?
controlled | positive |
(legal) Formally laid down.
* Hooker
Stated definitively and without qualification.
* :
Fully assured in opinion.
(mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
* :
Overconfident, dogmatic.
* :
(chiefly, 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.
(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 controlled
is inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.As a verb controlled
is (control).As a noun positive is
.positive
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,
p. 15
- 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)