Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for positive
Synonyms for positive: overconfident, irrefutable and plus. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for positive
Interchangeable with positive in this sense
Audited under positive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one positive carries in that sense.
- overconfidentadjective, in the sense "marked by excessive confidence"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name positive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- irrefutableirrefutable is an adjective in the sense "impossible to deny or disprove"
- plusplus is an adjective in the sense "involving advantage or good"
one of these comes from positive's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
marked by excessive confidence
The less he knows, the more positive he gets.
The true synonym
overconfident
Same sentence, swapped: The less he knows, the more overconfident he gets.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for positive in the sentence quoted.
- plus
- prescribed
- fixed
Where positive turns up in the game
positive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where positive is the trap
- fixedadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is frozen, in the sense "incapable of being changed or moved or undone", with positive sitting one tile away.
- properadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is right, in the sense "appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs", so positive is there to be ruled out.
- regularadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is steady, in the sense "relating to a person who does something regularly", so positive is there to be ruled out.
- prescribedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is official, in the sense "conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline", and positive is on the board beside it.
Play positive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so positive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. positive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.