Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not positive; not assertive.

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Examples

  • 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?

    Same Pattern, 2nd Dress 2009

  • It's pretty harsh to look at yesterday in anything but unpositive light, but we have to take the positives from it.

    CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2005 2005

  • 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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