Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not positive; not assertive.
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Examples
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Please inform me if this neckline trim being in a v would help a women with a bigger bust or would it again accent the unpositive?
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It's pretty harsh to look at yesterday in anything but unpositive light, but we have to take the positives from it.
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We mean, of course, political economy, which (with a reservation in favour of the speculations of Adam Smith as valuable preparatory studies for science) he deems unscientific, unpositive, and a mere branch of metaphysics, that comprehensive category of condemnation in which he places all attempts at positive science which are not in his opinion directed by a right scientific method.
Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839
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