| POSITIVE | • positive adj. Not negative or neutral. • positive adj. (Law) Formally laid down. • positive adj. Stated definitively and without qualification. |
| APPOSITIVE | • appositive adj. Of or being in apposition. • appositive n. (Grammar) a word or phrase that is in apposition. • APPOSITIVE adj. relating to apposition. |
| DEPOSITIVE | • depositive adj. Involving or relating to the process of depositing. • depositive adj. (Medicine) Describing a condition in which lymph is exuded into the derma, forming papules. • DEPOSITIVE adj. relating to deposition. |
| EXPOSITIVE | • expositive adj. That explains; expository. • EXPOSITIVE adj. serving to explain. |
| OPPOSITIVE | • oppositive adj. Expressing contrariety. • oppositive n. The oppositive case, or an instance of its use. • OPPOSITIVE adj. capable of being put in opposition. |
| COMPOSITIVE | • compositive adj. Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. • COMPOSITIVE adj. relating to a composite. |
| DIAPOSITIVE | • diapositive n. (Photography) slide (used with a projector for projecting images). • DIAPOSITIVE n. a transparent photographic positive; a slide. |
| DISPOSITIVE | • dispositive adj. Intending to or resulting in or capable of disposition (disposing of or settling a matter). • dispositive adj. (Obsolete) By natural disposition, having such an inclination. • dispositive adj. (Euro-English or non-native speakers’ English) Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties… |
| PREPOSITIVE | • prepositive adj. Put before; prefixed. • prepositive n. A prepositive word. • PREPOSITIVE adj. placed before. |
| SUPPOSITIVE | • suppositive adj. Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. • suppositive n. A word denoting or implying supposition. • SUPPOSITIVE adj. suppositional. |
| POSTPOSITIVE | • postpositive adj. (Grammar, of an adjective or other modifier) Placed after the word modified, either immediately after… • postpositive n. (Grammar) A postpositive modifier. • POSTPOSITIVE adj. of an adjective, placed after the word it modifies e.g. attorney general, Scrabble player manque. |
| SEROPOSITIVE | • seropositive adj. (Of blood serum): Testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive). • seropositive adj. (Of a person or animal): Having seropositive blood serum. • seropositive n. A person with that blood. |
| PHOTOPOSITIVE | • photopositive adj. (Biology) having a positive phototropic or phototactic response; attracted by light. • PHOTOPOSITIVE adj. exhibiting positive phototropism or phototaxis. |
| TRANSPOSITIVE | • transpositive adj. Made by transposition. • transpositive adj. Capable of being transposed. • TRANSPOSITIVE adj. relating to transposition, also TRANSPOSITIONAL. |
| CONTRAPOSITIVE | • contrapositive n. (Logic) The inverse of the converse of a given proposition. • CONTRAPOSITIVE n. an immediate inference, which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory of the original predicate. |
| ELECTROPOSITIVE | • electropositive adj. Having a positive electric charge. • electropositive adj. (Chemistry) tending to release electrons to form a chemical bond. • electropositive n. (Dated, chemistry, physics) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis. |