anticlockwise vs positive

anticlockwise

adv
  • In an anticlockwise fashion. 

adj
  • in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move. 

positive

adj
  • Not negative or neutral. 

  • Stated definitively and without qualification. 

  • Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive. 

  • Optimistic. 

  • Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion'). 

  • Overconfident, dogmatic. 

  • Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values. 

  • Of number, greater than zero. 

  • Having more protons than electrons. 

  • HIV positive. 

  • Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better. 

  • Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright. 

  • Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis. 

  • Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged. 

  • Formally laid down. 

  • Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations. 

  • Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence. 

  • electropositive 

  • Fully assured in opinion. 

  • Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative. 

  • Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish. 

  • basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals. 

noun
  • A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs. 

  • A positive result of a test. 

  • An adjective or adverb in the positive degree. 

  • A favourable point or characteristic. 

  • A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative. 

  • A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. 

  • Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge. 

  • The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. 

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