unpositive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"[…] no nation is going to dare provoke an atomic war with us unless it is convinced that the first shock will do away with our power, to use a rather unpositive word, to retaliate."
"The following three statements will provide an elementary example of what is meant by range: He's 24 years old (positive). He may be about 24 years old (tentative). I'm not sure how old he is (unpositive/uncertain) […]"

From un- + positive.

more unpositive (comparative) most unpositive (superlative)

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