A favourable point or characteristic.
A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
A positive result of a test.
An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
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.
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.
A distinguishing attribute or quality.
The details; particulars.
A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
Specification
of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
special, distinctive or unique.
being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
explicit or definite.