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Positively vs Truly - What's the difference?

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Positively is a related term of truly.


As adverbs the difference between positively and truly

is that positively is (manner)  in a positive manner while truly is in accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.

positively

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (manner)  In a positive manner.
  • (modal)  With certainty.
  • (degree)  Very.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

    Synonyms

    * (with certainty) definitely, categorically, decisively, unconditionally

    See also

    * absitively posolutely English degree adverbs English manner adverbs English modal adverbs

    truly

    English

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
    • He adds, very truly , that what was fatal to such philosophies as his was not Christianity but the Copernican theory.
  • Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
    • That is truly all I know.
    Truly , that is all I know.
  • Very.
    • You are truly silly.

    Derived terms

    * well and truly