positivo

From positief +‎ -o, coined by Dutch comedians Van Kooten & De Bie.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpoː.ziˈti.voː/

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• Hyphenation: po‧si‧ti‧vo

positivo m (plural positivo's)

1. (Netherlands, informal) a person with a positive mindset

   Opa Ivo is een echte positivo.

   Grandpa Ivo is a really cheery bloke.

From Latin positīvus.

• IPA^(key): /po.ziˈti.vo/
• Rhymes: -ivo
• Hyphenation: po‧si‧tì‧vo

positivo (feminine positiva, masculine plural positivi, feminine plural positive)

1. positive

   Antonym: negativo

• positivo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

positivo

1. alternative form of pozitivo
   • 2019 February 27, Metin DELEVİ, “El Samuray ke salvo a miles de djudios de los nazis”, in Şalom‎^[1]:

     Akoruto, kuando afita una trajediya, munchos bushkan a deskuvrir un lado positivo.

     Often, when a tragedy takes place, many people try to discover a positive side.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔ.sɪˈtiː.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [po.s̬iˈt̪iː.vo]

positīvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of positīvus

Borrowed from Latin posītīvus (“positive”), from the past participle stem of pōnō (“to place”).

• Hyphenation: po‧si‧ti‧vo

positivo (feminine positiva, masculine plural positivos, feminine plural positivas, not comparable)

1. affirmative (asserting that something is true)

   Synonyms: afirmativo, confirmador, confirmante, confirmativo, confirmatório

   Antonym: negativo

2. (mathematics, of a number) positive (greater than zero)

   Antonym: negativo

3. (physics): positive (having more protons than electrons)

   Antonym: negativo

4. (comparable) positive (characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better)

   Synonym: construtivo

5. (comparable) optimistic

   Synonyms: otimista, otimístico

   Antonyms: pessimista, pessimístico

6. (grammar) positive (describing the primary sense of a word; not comparative or superlative, not augmentative or diminutive)

   Coordinate terms: aumentativo, comparativo, diminutivo, superlativo

positivo

1. (formal) yes

   Synonyms: afirmativo, sim

   Antonyms: negativo, não

• “positivo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin positīvus.

• IPA^(key): /posiˈtibo/ [po.siˈt̪i.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: po‧si‧ti‧vo

positivo (feminine positiva, masculine plural positivos, feminine plural positivas)

1. positive

   Antonym: negativo

positivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of positivar

• “positivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024