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P — Porpoise to Practical (Part 4 of 12)

    5. Place, standing, social rank.
    6. State, condition, place, circumstances.
    7. Place, situation.

Positive, a.

    1. Express, direct, explicit, determinate, defined, precise, definite, clear, unequivocal, unmistakable, categorical, expressed, laid down.
    2. Real, actual, veritable, substantial, true, absolute, existing in fact.
    3. Absolute, not relative.
    4. Confident, sure, assured, certain, fully convinced.
    5. Indisputable, decisive, incontrovertible, indubitable.
    6. Decisive, unconditional, imperative.
    7. Dogmatic, stubborn, peremptory, obstinate, over-confident, tenacious, overbearing.

Positively, ad.

    1. Expressly, explicitly, precisely, categorically, definitely, directly.
    2. Actually, really, truly, in fact, in reality.
    3. Absolutely.
    4. Really, directly, inherently.
    5. Certainly, surely, assuredly, confidently.
    6. Certainly, indubitably, assuredly.
    7. Peremptorily, dogmatically, arbitrarily.